This 93 page report based on usability studies reports how users actually use a broad variety of iPad applications as well as websites accessed on the iPad.
Usability of iPad Apps and Websites: First Research Findings
Partial Abstract
The web provides an unprecedented opportunity to evaluate ideas quickly using controlled experiments, also called randomized experiments (single-factor or factorial designs), A/B tests (and their generalizations), split tests, Control/Treatment tests, and parallel flights.
Controlled experiments embody the best scientific design for establishing a causal relationship between changes and their influence on user-observable behavior. We provide [...]
Google Drawings is the latest addition to Google Docs. You can use it for wireframing with this stencil kit.
A Wireframe kit for Google Drawings
While Information Architecture took its name from architecture, it took very little else. This is not surprising, as the early days of the web were about making sites that supported the interaction between people and data. The obvious model back then was a library; a library is a space for humans to receive knowledge. But [...]
The pilot thought he had keyed in 7600 to warn air traffic control his radios had packed up. But he actually punched in 7500, the code for “I’ve been hijacked”.
The pilot’s problem is comic, but not unique. Why, asks Michaela Bushell, are so many products still designed to suit the way companies would ideally like [...]
A UX process diagram that maps software development life cycle (SDLC) and user centered design (UCD) activities together.
A UX Process diagram
Thirty one usability labs from all over the world, all recently built and in active use, take you on a photographic tour and show you how they designed their rooms, what equipment they use, and which software tools are used for data collection and analysis. The usability lab photo gallery covers a wide range of [...]
German IA Conference 2010 will be held from 14 to 15 May in Cologne, Germany.
IA Konferenz 2010
February 18, 2010 – 8:46 pm
This site is designed to introduce design students and professionals to practical research methods for design projects. It is supposed to help you plan, perform and process your design research work so that the outcome of your design project can become smarter, sharper and more relevant.
Design Research Guide
February 11, 2010 – 9:52 pm
The following sites present to you the best user experience content on the web by aggregating RSS feeds from key UX websites around the web.
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