Introduction Emotions instinctually influence our behaviors and every day decisions. As such, emotions are  a great way to understand users’ interactions with products and it helps to inform our designs. But how can we measure emotion? As the greatest expression of emotion can be seen on our faces, Facial Expression Analysis is a great method

Introduction It is always significant to make users delightful when engaging with the products, however, it can be extremely challengable either to measure their emotional reactions towards products or to prioritize them. This is where Kano Model comes into play, which is used for measuring desirability of different product features. This post will breifly introduce this method

Image Credit: MIT News Think about the apps, websites, and other digital products that we encounter everyday. How do we feel when using them? Have we been pleased by some of them while annoyed by others? Are we aware of our reactions and behaviors when such feelings occur? Think of the times when we have the

Choosing a good color scheme that follows best practices in design theory is a very important factor when creating a digital interface. It’s also important to design in ways that allow as many people as possible to access a product by taking into account the differing ways in which people perceive color. What is color

Introduction   In June 2018 the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) released the updated Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG 2.1). The W3C is the main international standards organization for the World Wide Web that develops protocols and guidelines that ensure long-term growth for the Web. It was founded by Tim Berners-Lee, the inventor of the

    WAVE is an automated web accessibility evaluation tool developed by WebAIM.  WAVE can help developers, designers, and website users quickly evaluate the accessibility of web content after JavaScript and CSS has been applied. WAVE detects potential accessibility issues across a site as a whole, as well as highlight the areas where it does

Introduction Computer-based devices are ubiquitous in our daily lives and most people interact with a computer interface with some regularity. But people are unique and people’s capabilities are different, and vision, hearing, and mobility disabilities are not uncommon. People with hearing and vision disabilities require alternatives for text and multimedia, and people with fine motor