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836 days ago
design persuasion user experience
Persuasion in Design
Persuasion in design is often regarded as a subset of UX, but it goes beyond UX and the mechanics of traditional usability.
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850 days ago
design user expectations user experience
Form Field Usability: Matching User Expectations
I see the mistake again and again – web designers that either don’t adjust the width of their form fields at all or adjust it based on what looks best in the layout of the page. To achieve good usability you should however adjust the width of your form fields so it matches the length of the expected input.
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850 days ago
design user experience
Extending the Practice of User Experience Into Our Everyday Lives
Creating collaborative environments, having empathy for your audience and removing the barriers of hierarchy are all ideas that are increasingly being embraced in the creative workplace.
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852 days ago
design social user experience
Take Social Back: A Call To Action
User Experience professionals have been reluctant to play in the social media space — so we have no one but ourselves to blame when we see it being misused. What’s our problem?
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855 days ago
design mobile user experience
Mobile UX Essentials
At the BAYCHI Interaction Design event tonight, Rachel Hinman (Nokia) talked about where and how to begin designing for mobile in her presentation on Mobile UX Essentials.
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857 days ago
design usability user experience
Parallel & Iterative Design + Competitive Testing = High Usability
3 methods for increasing UX quality by exploring and testing diverse design ideas work even better when you use them together…
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857 days ago
conversion user experience
9 Direct Marketing ideas to create UX that sells
I recently dug up my notes for a project I’m working on and came across this great list I had put together based on that workshop…
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858 days ago
emotional design user experience
Emotional Interface Design: The Gateway to Passionate Users
…No longer do you simply tell your best friend that you’ve broken up with your boyfriend. It feels natural to many people to tell hundreds of Twitter followers, and Facebook friends…
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858 days ago
design scenario user experience
A step by step guide to scenario mapping
Scenario mapping is a really quick, easy and dare I say it even fun way to collaboratively create, discuss and communicate user scenarios. Scenario mapping will help you to think about your users, to think about their tasks and most importantly to think about the sort of user experience you want to provide…
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858 days ago
design methodology user experience
Mental Notes
So what do you do when you’re stuck? As a user experience professional we often find ourselves in a situation where we are not sure how to turn good project into a great one….
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862 days ago
concept design user experience
A Product Development Tip – From a Measuring Cup
Product developers everywhere could learn a lesson from OXO’s angled measuring cup (shown at right), which was born out of some very simple, very smart research.
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862 days ago
design user experience
We’ve Got the Wrong Idea About UX
Do you need Design experts? Yes, of course. You need whip smart specialists in teams throughout your organization, but these people need a shared vision and a common language.
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862 days ago
business user experience
Comparing UXD Business Models
Our intent was to share experiences and systematically explore them in the hope that this information will aid companies in structuring their internal UX functions.
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862 days ago
collaboration design user experience
Why your UX team sucks?
So you’re either part of User Experience team or have invested in creating one and you’re not happy with the results. What’s going on? What are the main reasons?
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863 days ago
documentation user experience
Good Help Content Improves The User Experience
Though often under-appreciated, well written help documentation can improve the user experience and get people back on track when they stumble in complicated workflows.
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863 days ago
journeys personas sitemaps user experience
Personas, Journeys & Sitemaps
The most common and well known aspects of the UCD process are Personas, Journeys and Sitemaps – as these are the key deliverables that define a user experience.
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864 days ago
agile design user experience
How to implement “Super Fast, Super Cool” product development
…To be able to do agile UX, you need to have an implementation team that understand the principles of usability and can make the right decision when it comes to things like form design, validation and providing user feedback…
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864 days ago
usability testing user experience
Usability Testing: Getting Design Teams Onboard
Many designers come to me for usability testing consulting services. One of the reasons they reach out is because they assume usability testing must be a complex, scientific process. As a result, they’d prefer to have an outside company conduct their usability tests…
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866 days ago
usability user experience user interface
The Dark Side Of Usability
…When the interface isn’t helpful, information is internalized by the user, meaning they have to think longer about the problem and learn more fully the inner workings of their task…
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869 days ago
design user experience ux designer
Essential and Desirable Skills for a UX Designer
In this edition of Ask UXmatters, our experts discuss what skills are essential and desirable for a UX Designer.
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870 days ago
signup user experience
Progressive Signup: A Better User Signup Process
As the user plays with our product, we gently prod them at certain checkpoints to give us more info. This results in a better and more natural user experience.
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871 days ago
prototyping user experience UX search
UX Pond
UX Pond is a search engine dedicated to user experience blogs, journals, discussion, events, UI patterns and tools.
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872 days ago
prototyping sketches user experience wireframing
7 Myths About Paper Prototyping
When given a pencil and paper, most people (myself included) will tend to doodle words rather than draw pictures. Art was never my subject at school, so when I see wonderful, artistic renditions of user interfaces, I tend to feel somewhat humble.
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884 days ago
design process user experience
The UX Design Process for the Boxee Beta
…I conducted interviews with six prospective users (people who at the time had never used Boxee) and five existing users. I also performed usability testing with five existing users (three on their laptop and two on their home TV)…
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885 days ago
design mobile user experience
Four Key Principles of Mobile User Experience Design
…As mobile UX designers, we have both opportunity and choice in front of us. The opportunity is to establish the foundation principles of a stable, yet still emerging, experiential space…
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887 days ago
user experience
Why we need UX Apprenticeships
The subject of design education, UX careers, and mentoring has been on my mind a lot lately. It wasn’t long ago that I was looking for UX job…
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888 days ago
sketches user experience wireframing
Sketching to Communicate
..In UX workshops early on in a project’s life, sketching is a useful and efficient way to convey and record ideas. It’s disposable and inexpensive, but needn’t look amateur.
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893 days ago
documentation specifications user experience
UX Project Documentation: Answering Why, What and How
Many people don’t see the importance of gathering the necessary explanatory documents that define what you did all throughout your project development…
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897 days ago
product design user experience
Everyone Forgets Memory
What did your customer remember after using your product? Will they share their memories with others? Designing great products for people means ensuring three kinds of memorable moments to happen.
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898 days ago
deliverables user experience
What Makes a Good Deliverable
The things that make for a powerful diagram—legibility, relevance, actionability—are the same things that make for a good deliverable. Like diagrams, simplicity in deliverables is paramount.