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Tours of usability lab setups across the world

admin — Sun, 14 Mar 2010 14:03:38 +0000

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 application domains, organizations and technology: from desktop software to mobile applications, from healthcare to military systems, from consumer electronics to office hardware, from focus groups and qualitative testing to physiological measurements and eye tracking, from corporate to educational facilities, from stationary to portable labs. Enjoy the tours!

Tours of usability labs across the world

German IA Conference 2010, May 14-15, Cologne, Germany

admin — Sun, 14 Mar 2010 12:20:08 +0000

German IA Conference 2010 will be held from 14 to 15 May in Cologne, Germany.

IA Konferenz 2010

Design Research Guide

admin — Thu, 18 Feb 2010 15:16:21 +0000

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

All the top news on User Experience in one place

admin — Thu, 11 Feb 2010 16:22:23 +0000

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.

AllTop User Interface

UX URLs

Usability Metrics

admin — Sun, 07 Feb 2010 15:15:28 +0000

Summary
Although measuring usability can cost four times as much as conducting qualitative studies (which often generate better insight), metrics are sometimes worth the expense. Among other things, metrics can help managers track design progress and support decisions about when to release a product.

Usability Metrics

Reducing the Cost of Eye Tracking Systems

admin — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 16:13:29 +0000

Abstract
Tracking the user’s eye-gaze information has been techno-logically possible for several decades. However, systems that track eye-gaze are still very expensive. The exorbitant price tag on commercial systems has resulted in limited use of eye-tracking technology. In this paper we examine the factors which contribute to the high costs of eye-tracking systems. We then propose several techniques and strategies which can be used to reduce the cost of these systems, ultimately resulting in more widespread use of the technology.

Reducing the Cost of Eye Tracking Systems (PDF, 97 kb)

Social Software: The Other ‘Design for Social Impact’

admin — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 15:16:44 +0000

Human-centered approaches to industrial and interaction design have long focused on studying human behavior to create informed and appropriate designs. A social interaction designer must consider not only people, environment, and existing tools, but also the unseen elements of the system such as social relationships, power dynamics, and cultural rules.

Social Software: The Other ‘Design for Social Impact’

Internal Site Search Analysis: Simple, Effective, Life Altering!

admin — Tue, 26 Jan 2010 18:23:30 +0000

Understanding of your site visitors’ intent is one of the most delightful parts of web data analysis. In this article, we’ll learn five ways to analyze your internal site-search data—data that’s easy to get, to understand, and to act on.

Understand site-search usage
Where visitors search and what they do next
Measure site search quality
Segment, segment, segment
Measure outcomes

In Defense of Lorem Ipsum

admin — Sat, 16 Jan 2010 10:06:58 +0000

If you’re running a project where you mock up designs, get them approved, code them up, build a CMS, hook it all together, and then everyone looks around and says “Who’s got the content? Wait, this content doesn’t match the designs and it won’t fit in the CMS!” then you have a problem. A big problem.

Lorem Ipsum is not the cause of your problem. It’s a symptom. The real problem is an overall process that treats design and content as separate tracks without appropriate communication, collaboration, and checkpoints along the way.

In Defense of Lorem Ipsum

ACM India Launch Event, January 21, 2010, Bangalore, India

admin — Fri, 15 Jan 2010 20:04:39 +0000

ACM, the world s largest educational and scientific computing society is formally launching in India. The ACM India Launch Event will be on Thursday, January 21, 2010 in Bangalore. It will be held at the Hotel Taj Residency, Bangalore from 9:30 to 17:30. It is co-located with Compute 2010, ACM Bangalore Conference.

ACM India Launch Event