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The trend of personalizing websites is finally in full swing. We’ve been talking about it for years—flirting with it in fits and starts—but now the tools are at our fingertips and the strategies have matured for providing complex personalized user exper ...

Article - Matthew Fiore - March 07, 2013 - 5 comments - 0 attachments

Some lessons must be learned through excruciating pain . Others can be delivered through simple analogies. Happily, these less-grueling lessons are often part of development processes and strategies within human factors engineering and user e ...

Article - Steve Tengler - February 22, 2013 - 1 comment - 0 attachments

Prioritizing Web Usability combines the authors’ wisdom, experience, and hundreds of real-world user tests and contemporary Web site critiques to explain site design, user experience, usability testing, navigation, prioritizing usability issues, pag ...

Resource - Jakob Nielsen, Hoa Loranger - February 18, 2013 - 0 comments - 0 attachments

Using storyboards in software design can be difficult because of some common challenges and drawbacks to the tools we have. The good news is that there’s a new, free tool that tries to address many of these issues. But before I get into that, let’s ...

Article - Ambrose Little - February 08, 2013 - 9 comments - 0 attachments

Comics are one of the oldest forms of communication and have gone through many permutations, from drawings on cave walls to War and Peace -sized graphic novels. Co-creator of OK/Cancel , an online comic about interface design , Kevin Chen ...

Article - Josh Tyson | UX Magazine - February 07, 2013 - 1 comment - 0 attachments

The manual: possibly the most awkward part of a user’s experience with a product. People avoid manuals whenever possible and designers try to build interfaces that need not rely on them . And yet, users and designers would certainly agree that yo ...

Article - Anastasios Karafillis - February 05, 2013 - 8 comments - 0 attachments

The release of Windows 8 has disturbed the current ecosystem of designing for device-specific platforms. Fortunately, instead of asking users to learn three different digital experiences (phone, tablet , browser), the latest operating system ...

Article - Tiffany Chow - February 04, 2013 - 2 comments - 0 attachments

It’s part of our daily work. We can’t imagine creating a product or an application without doing it: understanding the user. Most of the clients we work with at EffectiveUI already have a good understanding of their customers from a market p ...

Article - Rebecca Flavin - February 01, 2013 - 4 comments - 0 attachments

One of the best things about user experience design is that the consumer products and services it helps to crystallize are always evolving. With that level of change comes all sorts of speculation about the future. Speculating is fun. Looking back ...

Article - THE MEME - January 30, 2013 - 2 comments - 0 attachments

It seems like everywhere you look there’s an article about content : content strategy , content marketing, content management, content curation, etc., etc., etc. … By now, we can probably all agree that content is an important part of every user ...

Article - Melissa Rach - January 28, 2013 - 6 comments - 0 attachments