Articles & Reports
Steven has a regular column for UX Matters, and writes articles, research reports, or guest blogs for others. These are not — for copyright purposes — reproduced here at 4ourth Mobile, so please follow the link to read them.
Most Recent Articles
Full articles I wrote since October 2019 are also on the articles page with summaries hosted here on 4ourth.com so you can tell before you click if you want to read it in full, get higher resolution images if it is your intent to steal them, and so on.
Fitts’ Law In The Touch Era Smashing Magazine, 9 February 2022
2021
Color and Universal Design UXmatters, 7 September 2021
Task Flows and the Process of Designing Interactions, 6 July 2021
Pragmatic Design Solutions UXmatters, 3 June 2021
Prioritizing Parts of a Design Project (Contributor) UXmatters, 19 April 2021
Onboarding Yourself UXmatters, 8 March 2020
Greeking Verus Designing With Actual Content UXmatters, 8 February 2020
Regionalizing Your Mobile Designs, Part 2 UXmatters, 4 January 2020
2020
Regionalizing Your Mobile Designs, Part 1 UXmatters, 9 November 2020
Mobile Is Now Everything UXmatters, 7 September 2020
Designing Mobile Tables UXmatters, 8 July 2020
UX Design for Compliance-Heavy Applications (Contributor) UXmatters, 24 June 2020
Designing for Progressive Disclosure UXmatters, 4 May 2020
"Are You Sure?" vs. Undo: Design and Technology UXmatters, 9 March 2020
Is Focusing on Agile or Lean Damaging the Practice of UX? Part 1 (Contributor) UXmatters, 20 January 2020
Dark Isn’t Just a Mode UXmatters, 6 January 2020
2019
Mobile Dark Patterns UXmatters, 4 November 2019
Choosing Whether to Create a Responsive Web or Native App (Contributor) UXmatters, 23 September 2019
Organic Product Development and Authentic Design UXmatters, 9 September 2019
Creating Effective Carousels UXmatters, 15 July 2019
A Design Language for Touch, Gesture, and Motion UXmatters, 6 May 2019
Designing for Intrinsic Understanding UXmatters, 4 March 2019
Adaptive Information Design and the Box Diagram UXmatters, 7 January 2019
2018
Paging, Scrolling, and Infinite Scroll UXmatters, 5 November 2018
Signon, Signoff, and Registration UXmatters, 10 September 2018
Mobile Apps: Native, Hybrid, and WebViews UXmatters, 6 August 2018
Testing Low-Fidelity Versus High-Fidelity Mockups (Contributor) UXmatters, 25 June 2018
Handling Delays UXmatters, 9 July 2018
How to Create Good Error Messages UXmatters, 15 May 2018
Creating a UX Team within a Large Enterprise (Contributor) 28 May 2018
Becoming an Agile Company (Contributor) UXmatters, 30 April 2018
Understanding Location UXmatters, 5 March 2018
Cascading UX Specifications UXmatters, 8 January 2018
2017
Tools for Remote, Collaborative UX Design (Contributor) UXmatters, 20 November 2017
Design, Craft, and Manufacturing for Digital Products UXmatters, 6 November 2017
Testing Products People Will Use in a Variety of Environments (Contributor) UXmatters, 25 September 2017
Avoiding Stupid, Rude, Destructive, and Deadly Design UXmatters, 11 September 2017
Principles for Mobile Design UXmatters, 7 August 2017
What to Do When You’re the Only UX Designer on a Project? (Contributor) UXmatters, 25 July 2017
Design for Fingers, Touch, and People, Part 3 UXmatters, 18 July 2017
Testing Low-Fidelity Versus High-Fidelity Mockups (Contributor) UXmatters, 25 June 2017
The Most and Least Valuable Contributions of UX Designers (Contributor) UXmatters, 20 June 2017
Onboarding Class for Your New Job Medium, May 16, 2017 (but derived from older work)
Design for Fingers, Touch, and People, Part 2 UXmatters, 8 May 2017
Becoming an Agile Company (Contributor) UXmatters, 2 May 2017
We Are Not Masters of Our Design Destinies Medium, 5 April 2017
Books That Have Influenced Our UX Careers, Part 2: Applied UX Research (Contributor) UXmatters, 27 March 2017
Design for Fingers, Touch, and People, Part 1 UXmatters, 6 March 2017
Books That Have Influenced Our UX Careers, Part 1: Design (Contributor) UXmatters, 20 Feb 2017
Build a Mobile-Device Lab! UXmatters, 9 January 2017
2016
Book Review: The Smarter Screen (Quoted for article) UXmatters, 5 December 2016
Succeeding with Field Usability Testing and Lean Ethnography UXmatters, 7 November 2016
Mobile UX Design Approaches: Workshops UXmatters, 8 September 2016
Flatly Authentic UXmatters, 11 July 2016
Beyond Airplane Mode UXmatters, 25 April 2016
Session Expiry and Coke Machines UXmatters, 11 March 2016
Five Questions with Steven Hoober (Interview with me) Pointworks Academy, 9 February 2016
The Purpose of Site Maps and Other Design Deliverables (Contributor) UX Magazine, 27 January 2016
Practical Empathy for the Rest of the World UXmatters, 4 January 2016
2015
The Top UX Predictions for 2016 (Contributor) UX Magazine, 30 December 2015
Error Messages Are an Anti-Pattern UXmatters, 9 November 2015
Identifying and Validating Assumptions and Mitigating Biases in User Research (Contributor) UXmatters, 19 October 2015
4 leading mobile UX experts talk key trends TechBeacon, 29 September 2015
44 px: Why Apple is Wrong Medium, 15 September 2015
Type Sizes for Every Device UXmatters, 7 September 2015
Is Technical Writing Part of UX? (Contributor) UXmatters, 24 August 2015
More Agile, More Problems Medium, 18 August 2015
What I do: A plea for Human Factors and Usability Medium, 9 August 2015
Inspiration for UX Design from the Arts and Sciences (Contributor) UXmatters, 20 July 2015
Back, the Stack, and Authentic Design UXmatters, 6 July 2015
Why It’s Totally Okay to Use a Hamburger Icon UXmatters, 5 May 2015
Fingers, Thumbs, and People ACM Interactions, 1 May 2015
Tools for Mobile UX Design: Task Flows UXmatters, 9 March 2015
Responsive Web Design for eCommerce Web Sites (Contributor) UXmatters, 16 Feb 2015
Phones Aren’t Flat: Designing for Real People in Diverse Contexts UXmatters, 5 January 2015
2014
The Top UX Predictions for 2015 (Contributor) UX Magazine, December 22, 2014
50+ Designers Share Their Top 3 Design Trends For 2015 (Contributor) FoundersGrid, December 9, 2014
The Rise of the Phablet: Designing for Larger Phones UXmatters, 3 November 2014
Persuading Clients That the Need for User Research and Usability Testing Is Real (Contributor) UXmatters, October 20, 2014.
User Experience and Accessibility: Working with Visual Designers (Contributor) UXmatters, September 22, 2014.
Insights on Switching, Centering, and Gestures for Touchscreens UXmatters, 2 September 2014
The Social History of the Smartphone UXmatters, 7 July 2014
Nine Lies We Tell Ourselves About Mobile UX Magazine, 3 June 2014
The Role of User Experience in the Product Development Process UXmatters, 5 May 2014
Making mLearning Usable: How We Use Mobile Devices eLearning Guild research report, April 2014
Read for free most of it on my blog
Mobile usability: Top tips to help you plan for adaptability infographic from WorkLearnMobile based entirely on this report.
Teens as Digital Users UXmatters, 10 March 2014
Achieving Alignment: Collaboration Versus Wireframes? (Contributor) UXmatters, 24 February 2014.
Conducting Expert Reviews: What Works Best? (Contributor) UXmatters, 27 January 2014.
People, Ubiquity, and the Internet of Things: The New Mobile Context with Mudassir Azzemi, UXmatters, 13 January 2014
2013
Top UX Trends of 2013 (Contributor) UX Magazine, December 2013
Wear Are We? A medical device that can interface with brainwaves finds us pondering the trajectory of wearable technology. (Contributor) UX Magazine, December 2013.
The Top UX Predictions for 2014 (Contributor) UX Magazine, December 2013
Designing for Fingers and Thumbs Instead of Touch UXmatters, 11 November 2013
A worksheet I used to teach this at a workshop Design by Zones worksheet
Doing User Research at an eCommerce Startup (Contributor), UXmatters, November 2013
Improving user experience is as easy as cleaning your room KC Startup Village blog, 7 October 2013
The Importance of Collaborative UX Design (Contributor) UXmatters, October 2013
Designing for Imperfection in Action UX Magazine, October 2013
Tools for Mobile UX Design: Adobe InDesign UXmatters, September 2013
Responsive Web Design for Corporate UX Design (Contributor) UXmatters, September 2013
The Future Merchants UX Motel, August 2013.
1 Of Every 8 SIM Cards Can Be Hacked: Will Mobile Technology Ever Be Completely Secure? (Contributor) Zintro Blog, August 2013
UX Concepts and Practices That We Wish Would Just Go Away (Contributor) UXmatters, August 2013
An Introduction to Designing for Imperfection UX Magazine, July 2013.
Tools for Mobile UX Design UX Matters, June 2013
A Conversation Around Hypervoice UXmatters, January 2013
2012
Designing for Users and Their Devices UX Matters, December 2012
Mobile Inline Form Validation UXmatters, September 2012
Responsive Principles: More Than Designing for Size - UXmatters, 11 June 2012
Agile User Experience Design (Contributor) UXmatters, April 2012.
Eyes on the Road or Mind on the Road? - UXmatters, April 2012
2008
Greatness and danger in police car computers written for the Little Spring Design blog, but reprinted in Police Professional and others, and quoted in the Atlantic as Attention Must be Paid (though they got my name wrong). September 2008.