The Role of Visual Design in UX
Visual design has the potential to make or break a user experience.
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The Raspberry Pi Camera Module
In this post we'll look at the Raspberry Pi camera module, a low cost hardwar module that supports still picture and video recording.
Of Cars and Connectivity: The Next Generation of (IVI) In Vehicle Infotainment
The area of IVI, or more generally the Connected Car (mirrorlink.com)(1), seems poised to be a hot market for 2014 and beyond.
What's New in Qt 5.2: QCommandLineParser
After several failed attempts in the past, thanks to the efforts of Qt and KDE developer David Faure, command line parsing support is now in Qt 5.2.0.
Visceral Appeal in UX – Part 4: The Design
To understand how to create visceral appeal in a user experience (UX) it helps to compare and contrast other forms of media that preceded the digital medium.
Using Self-Signed Certificates in Qt Code
This article will show how to create a self-signed SSL key for Apache and how the Qt code will use it.
On Justifying User Experience Design
A few months ago, we put on a webinar about usability testing.
Design at DevDays
Welcome to the post Qt DevDays 2013 edition of the UX Blog. I suspect that many of you who follow this blog also attended DevDays and I hope
So You Did a Usability Test – Now What?
Congratulations! You've finished your usability test. What's the next step? How do you organize, analyze and present your finding
Visceral Appeal in UX – Part 2: Some Science
When we say that a user experience (UX) has “visceral appeal”, we mean that it elicits an immediate “I like it” response.
The 30 Second Impression
What can you do in 30 seconds?
Qt and C++11
With most C++ compilers now providing good support for the latest language standard, C++11, let's look at some of the new language features that are particularly useful for use in Qt programs.
Our Vision Sense Outshines and Overshadows
Have you ever wondered why graphical user interfaces (GUIs) have been the primary interface to computing?
The Qt 5 Multimedia QML Elements
Qt 5 introduced a new set of multimedia APIs. Both C++ and QML APIs are provided. In this blog post, I will give an overview of the QML APIs for multimedia.
Perception is Everything
Summer is rolling right along, and so are the attempts to simulate some of Tony Stark’s lifestyle here at ICS. A while back, I wrote about tr
Reducing Engineering Costs Through UX Design
Imagine for a moment that you are working on a project that has a virtually unlimited budget, like the iPhone or Android OS projects.
Integrating C++ with QML
Qt Quick's QML language makes it easy to do a lot of things, especially fancy animated user interfaces. However, there are some things that either can't be done or are not really suitable for implementing in QML. As we'll see, Qt makes it quite easy to expose C++ code to QML. In this blog post I'll show an example of doing this with a small but functional application.
Qt Contributors Summit 2013 Recap
This year's Qt Contributors Summit was held in conjunction with KDE Akademy in Bilbao, Spain.
UX Designers are Pattern Thinkers
Even though user experience (UX) design must accommodate the needs of the user, which seem on the surface to be idiosyncratic, UX designs are built
Keeping Up to Date (Whether You Like It or Not)
June is usually one of my favorite months. Summer is starting, the bugs are clearing out and vacations are upon us; it’s a generally nice tim
The Qt Graphical Effects Module
This blog posting gives an introduction to the Qt Graphical Effects module, which is available in Qt 5. As of Qt 5.1.
The Tricky Thing about Free-form Gestures
The tricky thing about free-form gestures… adding a few obvious gestures to an otherwise touch interface is easy. However, i
Building Qt 5 on Raspberry Pi
This is a HOW TO guide for building Qt 5 for the the Raspberry Pi, and building and deploying Qt 5 apps using Qt Creator.
The Most Important Reason For Consistency in the Design of a UX
There are numerous blogs arguing for consistency in a UX design mostly for soft reasons, such as "it's good for company branding,"