6 min

Blink’s 2024 DEI Progress Report

Strengthening our commitment to diversity, equity, and inclusion year over year.

5 min

What the Murphy Bed Has To Do With Apple and NASA

Using metaphors to elevate a design project from good to unforgettable.

10 min

What is Customer Experience?

Customer experience, or CX, encompasses every interaction a person has with your company and everything you do to deliver value to your customers. Here’s everything you need to know about CX.

6 min

Mixed Methods Research 101: The Key to Confident Product Decisions

Definition, benefits, and examples of mixed methods research.

7 min

Getting Started: First Steps to Improving the Utility Customer Experience

How to get the most value from your current tech investments, lower costs, and increase customer satisfaction with better UX.

5 min

Quick Guide: Making Your Research Participants More Comfortable

It can be tricky to make participants feel comfortable in challenging study environments. Use these tips to help them give their best feedback.

2 min

Article Round-Up: Accessible and Inclusive Design

A list of Blink articles filled with tips and resources to help you build more inclusive experiences for your audiences.

3 min

Visual Design for Healthcare: A Person-Centered Approach

Behind the scenes of our illustrations for nonprofit, Partner to Decide

3 min

NASA × Blink UX Work Recognized with Webby Awards

NASA honored with 2024 Webby Awards for the reimagined NASA.gov website and the new streaming service, NASA+.

4 min

Tips for UX Researchers: 10 Habits to Make Your Job Fun and Efficient

I asked our researchers what they’re doing lately to make their jobs easy, fun, and efficient — here’s what I heard.

6 min

Pro Bono Partnership: An interview with Partner to Decide founder, Dr. Ann Peralta

Learn more about Blink’s pro bono client, Partner to Decide, directly from the founder.

8 min

Blink’s 2023 DEI Progress Report

A look at our continued journey toward a more diverse, inclusive, and equitable company.

6 min

How Automation is Improving the Healthcare Customer Experience

Our tips for using automation to create efficient, personalized experiences that meet patient needs.

9 min

Top Five UX Opportunities in Digital Health

Here are five key UX opportunity areas healthcare systems are looking at for improving the patient/provider experience.

1 min

Improving the User Experience of Healthcare Provider Websites

Blink has worked with a variety of healthcare providers over the last several years to understand the users of their websites. The results of this work have been research-based recommendations and design solutions that address many common challenges. Today, we are publishing a whitepaper that summarizes the challenges providers face online, and how a research-based approach to user experience can help meet the needs of their patients and employees.

1 min

Front-End Development at Blink UX

Producing HTML, CSS, and Javascript for browser-based experiences such as websites and web applications.

5 min

Five Tips for Designing Better Conversational Interfaces

From chatbots to intelligent assistants, conversation interfaces are changing the way that people interact with their computers, and designers have a unique opportunity to shape this medium at the ground level. Like all emerging tech, best practices are still being developed, but here at Blink we’ve had the opportunity to design a few of our own and learned a lot along the way.

10 min

How UX Can Help IoT Products, Part 2

In this follow-up we’ll be diving deeper into some of the specifics of what makes a great user experience for IoT products, focusing on the critical areas of onboarding, support, and security.

12 min

How UX Can Help IoT Products, Part 1

Smart homes. IoT. Connected devices. VR. What happens when buzzy, emerging technologies begin to infiltrate the everyday? Will consumers face a frustrating gunfight-style showdown with new products, or will they discover a frictionless setup process and experience a product that enhances their life? It all depends on how much effort you put into UX.

5 min

Don’t Predict; Create: The Power of Future Envisioning

How to bridge the future with the here and now and generate the product vision necessary for being a leader in your sphere.

3 min

What I Wish I Knew: Career Advice from 10 Leaders in UX

Lessons from industry leaders on what makes a successful UX career.

6 min

4 Practical Ways To Improve Lives With AI (Beyond the Chatbot)

Realizing the potential of AI-powered tools starts with uncovering how you can — and should — use them.

2 min

5 Reasons To Build a Design System — and the Benefits For Your Team

Design systems are powerful for teams who want to save time and money in their design process. Here's why we love them, and how NASA used a Blink design system to unify its web experience.

10 min

The Art of Great Design Workshops: 5 Activities We Swear By

Say goodbye to awkward and clunky design workshops. Here are our tips to ensure your team leaves every UX workshop focused, inspired, and aligned.

5 min

Delight Your Customers With Age Inclusive Design

Data shows that global populations are tipping the demographic scale toward adults over 65. With age-inclusive design, product adoption and reach could spread like wildfire.

7 min

How to Harness the “Designer’s Curse” for Your Next Design Review

As a UX designer, you most likely have a method for gathering design inspiration. Here's a step-by-step process for conducting a design review that leverages your inspiration-seeking habits and helps you consider strategy early in the design process.

5 min

How We're Finding UX Design Inspiration in the Film Industry

As part of our employee "Lunch and Learn" series, we spoke with Hocus Pocus production designer Bill Sandell. Here are some highlights from our conversation and a few ideas for how you can find UX design inspiration in the film industry.

4 min

The Benefits of Being a Design Driven Organization + How to Become One

Organizations that embrace evidence-driven design increase profits, retain customers, and align on business goals quicker than their engineering-led counterparts. This article will discuss what it means to be a design-led organization and how you can apply design in any industry.

4 min

Is User Research Worth the Cost?

Why investing in customer research makes sense for your brand and business.

10 min

Measuring Customer Experience with Customer Success Outcomes (CSOs)

With multiple data sets, it can be hard to know where to start. Connect your research findings and define your customer experience KPIs with CSOs.

5 min

Three Reasons to Add Desk Research to Your Next Project

Secondary research, like desk research, is a powerful tool for practitioners to add to their research toolkits. Here’s why you should consider adding it to your next project.

3 min

What is Concept Evaluation?

A look at evaluative research and how you can use it to improve your products and services.

1 min

What is Customer Experience Journey Mapping?

Your questions answered.

4 min

How to Prioritize Your UX Metrics for Business Success

Learn how to select and prioritize UX metrics based on your business goals.

4 min

The Hidden Benefit of Rage Clicks: How To Boost Your Site Performance

Learn how rage clicks can help you detect user frustration and make data-driven decisions to improve your site.

3 min

What is Usability Testing?

A look at usability testing and how to get started.

1 min

Customer Experience Benchmarking

A look at usability benchmarking and how to get started.

5 min

Conducting User Research and COVID-19

In collaboration with colleagues within and outside of Blink, plus a fair amount of experimenting at home, Chief Innovation Officer Kelly Franznick put together a set of protocols for a safe return to our user research labs.

6 min

7 Ways To Improve Your Mobile Banking App

Your guide to creating a modernized mobile banking or investment app experience — based on our latest banking research.

5 min

How to Create Consistent Fintech Experiences With a Brand Ambassador Team

Want to improve your customers’ experience across all channels? Building a UX framework and cross-branch ambassador program can help. Here’s how to get started.

5 min

Why You Should Treat Your Website Like a Product

Understanding your website as a product will set your company apart from competitors.

2 min

Quick Testing of Accessibility for iOS Apps

There's an easy way to test how users will experience your designs on iPhone and iPad with accessibility features enabled.

7 min

Target These Three Innate Needs to Improve User Engagement

We set design objectives for creating engaging products that will keep a user’s attention, encourage task completion, and be enjoyable to use. However, of those objectives, we find “enjoyable to use” the hardest to design for and measure. This is in large part because humans perceive experiences differently – what one person thinks is clever and clear, someone else may see as complex and opaque.

3 min

Creativity, Collaboration & Confidentiality

So how do we get together and collaborate on ideas when a project is top secret? When only one person at Blink knows what the client is working on, and only a handful of employees at the client’s company even know what it is?

3 min

How to Improve CX and EX With a Total Experience Strategy

A TX business strategy can help companies increase employee experience and customer experience quickly and efficiently.

4 min

What You Need to Know About Business-to-Employee User Experience

We answer the question, "What is B2E UX?" and discuss three reasons why adopting easy-to-use technology for your employees will enrich your company.

4 min

Blink Pro Bono Program: Designing For Social Change

Learn more about our pro bono program.

14 min

Designing Gender-Inclusive Customer Experiences: Tips and Resources

Want to design more inclusive products? Learn how, plus, get started with free resources as a guide.

7 min

Blink's 2022 DEI Progress Report

A look at how our DEI efforts came to life in the last year.

9 min

How Improving Website Accessibility Will Positively Impact SEO

Accessible content leads to a more inclusive website, and by following web accessibility best practices, you can also improve search engine optimization (SEO).

7 min

Designing for Mobility Impairments

I met with Blake, one of Blink’s assistive device specialists, to discuss the challenges of his mobility impairment and his tips for creating inclusive app and web designs.

7 min

Diversity, equity, and inclusion at Blink

These are our first steps toward cultivating a more equitable workplace for our employees, clients, and community.

4 min

Workplace culture: How an evidence-based, data-driven approach produces thriving resu...

A positive company culture requires the same careful curation, management, and rigor as any other aspect of a business. At Blink, we consciously design our culture to ensure that employees have the structure and guidance they need to fully develop their skills and abilities for a happy and rewarding career.

2 min

Prioritizing Accessibility in UX Research and Design

Learn how Blink teams prioritize accessibility at each phase of product development and how your teams can do the same.

1 min

What Is the Impact of the Proposed Revisions to the W3C WAI?

Blink is looking forward to integrating version 3 into its existing accessibility practice as soon as it is formalized. All organizations interested in expanding accessibility on the web should welcome this latest addition from the W3C.

6 min

Accessibility in the UX Industry and at Blink

Accessibility in the UX industry and at Blink In October studio manager Lynsey Lacher interviewed Joe Welinske, accessibility director and ConveyUX program manager for National Disability Awareness Month.

10 min

Digital Banking Trends and Challenges

Banks are bottom-line driven, so if you work in the banking or finance industry, you'll want to be aware of what the top digital banking transformation trends are, how to develop a mobile banking app, and what the future of the banking industry looks like.

4 min

Solving Digital Debt: How Blink Enhances EX in an AI-Driven Era

Digital debt impacts innovation, drains employee energy, and challenges organizational productivity. Could AI be the solution?

6 min

The UX of Digital 3-D Interaction

With the emergence of virtual and augmented reality, we will have many more 3-D digital experiences available to us. Many of these upcoming 3-D experiences will be interactive, requiring the user to navigate a 3-D space. While it may take some time for these experiences to catch on and become pervasive, They will.