Categories: Human factors

Many organizations struggle with the dynamics and the complexity of today's social ecosystems that connect everyone and everything, everywhere and all the time. Facing challenges at the intersection of business models, technical developments, and huma ...

Resource - Milan Guenther - March 12, 2013 - 0 comments - 0 attachments

Testing is a critical part of the user experience design process. Observing people using your product in a natural setting is the best way to measure how successful your products will be in meeting their goals. Until now, mobile testing sessions ...

Resource - Rob Scherer - February 22, 2013 - 0 comments - 0 attachments

Psychologist Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi investigates "optimal experience," revealing what makes an experience genuinely satisfying: a state of consciousness called  flow . During flow, people typically experience deep enjoyment, creativity, an ...

Resource - Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi - February 08, 2013 - 0 comments - 0 attachments

Publication Date:  Mon, 05/07/2012 Authors:  Alan Cooper Rob ...

Resource - Alan Cooper, Robert Reimann, David Cronin - December 13, 2012 - 0 comments - 0 attachments

Insightful and entertaining, The Inmates Are Running the Asylum finds author Alan Cooper using his experiences in corporate America to illustrate how talented people continuously design bad software-based products and why we need technology to work ...

Resource - Alan Cooper - October 25, 2012 - 0 comments - 0 attachments

UCDmanager   is a collaborative web application aimed to  manage and document different User-Centered Design and usability techniques , in an integrated manner: user roles, personas, heuristic evaluations, usability user testing, etc. ...

Resource - jordisan - October 25, 2012 - 0 comments - 0 attachments

There is no single methodology for creating the perfect product, but you can increase your odds by understanding understand users' reasons for doing things. Mental Models gives you the tools to help you grasp, and design for, those reasons. Adaptive ...

Resource - Indi Young - October 11, 2012 - 0 comments - 0 attachments

  Emotional Design explores the deep influence the feelings that objects evoke have on consumers—from our willingness to spend thousands of dollars on Gucci bags and Rolex watches, to the impact of emotion on the everyday objects being desig ...

Resource - Donald Norman - October 11, 2012 - 0 comments - 0 attachments

Through a series of illuminating experiments, MIT behavioral economist Dan Ariely refutes the assumption that we behave in fundamentally rational ways. Blending common experience with groundbreaking research, Predictably Irrational explains how expe ...

Resource - Dan Ariely - September 14, 2012 - 0 comments - 0 attachments

With Made to Stick , accomplished educators and idea collectors Chip and Dan Heath reveal the anatomy of ideas that stick and explain ways to make ideas stickier, such as applying the “human scale principle,” using the “Velcro Theory of Memory,” ...

Resource - Chip Heath, Dan heath - September 14, 2012 - 0 comments - 0 attachments