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- 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
- Improve Your Odds when Hiring for UX
We’ve all seen the flurry over the past several years of both agencies and corporate entities investing in hiring UX talent. (To spare definitions, I’ll let “UX” equate to anything from information architect to researcher to interface designer ...
Article - Greg Zapar - February 14, 2013 - 6 comments - 0 attachments
- Designing to Reward our Tribal Sides
We are a species of beings that depend on one another. Scientists theorize humans have specially adapted neurons that help us feel what others feel, providing evidence that we survive through our empathy for others. We’re meant to be part of a t ...
Article - Nir Eyal - February 11, 2013 - 1 comment - 0 attachments
- Designing for Mobile Superpower
The world is almost entirely inhabited by mobile users, individuals who move through a multi-dimensional network of digital threads linking people and machines. U.N. Global Pulse reports that mobile is transforming the unlikeliest corners of our ...
Article - Joanna Proulx - February 06, 2013 - 0 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
- Designing In and Around the Windows 8 Ecosystem
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
- 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
- Eight UX Design Trends for 2013
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
- 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
- The Cloud is Hazy for Automotive UX
The Onion ’s sarcasm continually strikes the current-events funny bone, and their recent parody of cloud marketing is no exception. But once we stop savoring the hilarious one-liners (“We have all the G’s!”), reality sets in: many companies do no ...
Article - Steve Tengler - January 24, 2013 - 2 comments - 0 attachments