September 12, 2011 – 7:03 pm
‘People & participation’ is based on Involve’s successful book by the same name which was launched in 2005. The book provides a useful summary of participatory methods and practice but given the number of methods and speed of the development of new methods, it is impossible for a printed publication to stay accurate for long.
The [...]
September 4, 2011 – 9:53 pm
The author shares some nice points on how to work towards creating a good UX portfolio, based on what he learned by attending a meetup at London IA that was focused on the theme, ‘What makes a great UX portfolio’.
5 simple steps towards a UX portfolio
August 22, 2011 – 7:21 pm
The Sketchnotes channel allows one to learn more about sketchnotes, including a great overview of a new kind of visual thinking and some basics to get started off.
The Core77 Sketchnotes channel
August 15, 2011 – 4:51 pm
A recent article in the New York Times discusses Ford’s plummeting fall in user rankings this year, focusing the blame on their new touch screen interface. According to the article, J.D.Power, the auto industry arbiter, dropped Ford’s ranking from 5th to 23rd, and subsidiary Lincoln’s ranking from 8th to 17th place.
J.D.Power acknowledges that [...]
Here are top paying jobs for Information Architecture, Usability, and UX practitioners plus reasons to explore each for your user experience design career - and bank your account. (Salary figures based on Indeed.com and GlassDoor.com data)
User experience strategist: $67,000 to $135,000
Usability analyst: $81,000 on an average
User interface designer: $84,000 to $155,000
Interaction designer: $91,000 on [...]
Design thinking, as a concept, has been slowly evolving and coalescing over the past decade. One popular definition is that design thinking means thinking as a designer would, which is about as circular as a definition can be. More concretely, Tim Brown of IDEO has written that design thinking is “a discipline that uses the [...]
In the last few years, more and more organizations have come to view UX design as a key contributor to successful products, connecting teams with end-users and guiding product innovation within the organization. Though it is fantastic to see this transition happen, there are growing pains associated with becoming a user-driven organization. These are the [...]
The intranet manager is one of the most important people in an intranet design project. Many times the effort that goes into such a project is on the same level as that of a major organizational change initiative. It is therefore important that the manager is thoroughly prepared for the journey. If you are managing [...]
Was a task difficult or easy to complete? Performance metrics are important to collect when improving usability but perception matters just as much.
Asking a user to respond to a questionnaire immediately after attempting a task provides a simple and reliable way of measuring task-performance satisfaction. Questionnaires administered at the end of a test such [...]
Steve Krug says that usability is about building clarity into web sites: making sure that users can understand what it is they’re looking at — and how to use it — without undue effort. Is it clear to people? Do they “get it”?
But there’s another important component to web usability: doing the right thing — [...]