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- Creating Savvy and Sophisticated User Experiences through Personalization
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
- Making Mobile Meaningful
Join EffectiveUI at this gathering of industry experts and market leaders to discuss the art of creating mobile apps that gain adoption and integrate with your digital ecosystem. Date: Wednesday, March 20 Time: 4:00–7:00 ...
Event - Catherine Horning - March 04, 2013 - 0 comments - 0 attachments
- Two Major Challenges with Speech-Recognition Technology
Speech is still a relatively new interface. Technology is finally starting to catch up to the dreams that we've had since the invention of the computer itself: dreams of having natural conversations with computers—something portrayed in countless sc ...
Article - Andrew Wagner - February 27, 2013 - 0 comments - 0 attachments
- Big Design Conference 2013
The Big Design Conference is four intense days of learning within the scope of Strategy, Mobile, User Experience, Gaming, Code Development, Usability, and Film Design. Big Design is a cross-disciplinary conference open to design-loving enthusias ...
Event - Brian Keith Sullivan - March 04, 2013 - 0 comments - 0 attachments
- Home Automation: The next frontier for UX?
If there is one thing that UX and UI designers should take away from this year’s Consumer Electronics Show , it is that the next big thing is home automation, and we better be ready for it. From dishwashers with digital interfaces to smartp ...
Article - ÄKTA Design Studio - February 26, 2013 - 5 comments - 0 attachments
- Five User Experience Lessons from Laura Dern
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
- Love, Hate, and Empathy: Why We Still Need Personas
UX is a relatively nascent discipline: a boisterous, hopeful, opinionated, and insightful young adult who sometimes lacks perspective. Need evidence? Just yesterday personas were a UX designers’ BFF, but today? Well, not so much. There’s bee ...
Article - Kyra Edeker, Jan Moorman - February 21, 2013 - 9 comments - 0 attachments
- Improving User Experience in Manuals
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
- Sharpening Your Competitive Edge with UX Research
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
- The Four Waves of User-Centered Design
In the fall of 1988, a small group of professionals from the technology industry gathered at Bentley College (now University) in Waltham, Mass., to discuss the topic of user advocacy and assistance. These gatherings were informal, simply a group of ...
Article - Dr. William Gribbons - January 29, 2013 - 5 comments - 0 attachments