Chelsea is: Ux-ing

How a culture of creative collaboration has helped the company maintain its brand voice amid rapid growth.

"It’s often said that good design disappears because it’s not in the way. I would say that amazing design also disappears but peeks out every now and then to make someone smile."

"If there is one thing that writing all of this down has reminded me of, it is that making great digital products is hard. Yet, the joy and privilege of what we designers get to do every day lies in the depths of this challenge. And of course luck plays a role; of course randomness emerges out of complexity. But I want to approach what I do as a craft, not a lottery. Great digital products don’t happen by accident."

Our first piece of ongoing research into usability best practices tackles scrolling.

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Huge tested four different cues for scrolling when users first land on a webpage: full image, arrow, short image, animated image.

Elliott Headman is pioneering a new approach to design research, combining observational techniques and stress-testing sensors.

"It’s a future in which usability testing is happening continuously, invisibly, all around us. And, perhaps more interestingly, one in which products could find ways to adjust themselves moment to moment, based on our emotional state."

"For now, though, all this new data is most useful for identifying problems. It’s up to designers to figure out how to solve them."

Over the last several months I have dove into designing and developing my own personal portfolio website. I used HTML and CSS with the help of bootstrap.

I've finally hit a point where I'm satisfied with how it looks and feels, however, I will never be satisfied with my skills and will continue to develop them.

A non-artsy primer in digital aesthetics

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