All posts by Jesús Villanueva

13th May 2011 by Jesús Villanueva | User Experience

Charities, like most organisations in the world, are trying to jump on the iPhone wagon to reach a wider audience and to spread the word about each of the causes they support. Although many charities have created an iPhone app, only a few apps have transcended to a greater audience due to its uniqueness and the way they exploit the capabilities this device offers.

4th February 2011 by Jesús Villanueva | User Experience

Recent news stories show how e-commerce sales keep growing, even in the current stage of recession we are in. e-Bay and Amazon are two of the most popular vendors in this sector, but Domino’s Pizza are clearly committed to building a name in the online market too. With a successful online ordering service already live and running, how does their app live up to the expectations?

14th December 2010 by Jesús Villanueva | User Experience

The iPhone, together with the iPad, has become one of the preferred platforms to read news on, taking into account the wide range of both free and paid apps available in the App Store. The Independent is one of the newspapers giving access to their news with a free app for the iPhone. How does it compare with popular alternatives like The New York Times or The Economist?

6th December 2010 by Jesús Villanueva | User Experience

Serendipity can help develop new ideas in fields like science and art. These “discoveries by accident” are seen as a powerful tool in creative processes. But how can we design to add serendipity as a feature? How is online serendipity supported?

5th November 2010 by Jesús Villanueva and Michael Harris | User Experience

For the last couple of months we have been bombarded with figures about Apple’s massive success. Over 120 million devices sold and 6.5 billion app downloads are astonishing figures. One could think that all apps in the App Store are amazing because everybody is downloading them! That, unfortunately, is far from true. The vast majority of apps are just downloaded to try them out, and then dismissed after some weeks or even days.