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Survey research conducted in the fall of 2010 investigating job satisfaction among usability practitioners and how satisfaction is impacted by employer type, organizational placement, and other factors. Preface A couple of things before we ...

Article - Patrick Malecek - March 16, 2011 - 8 comments - 0 attachments

Companies should lead their users, not the other way around. So say Jens Skibsted and Rasmus Hansen in their recent post, User-Led Innovation Can't Create Breakthroughs , on Fast Company's Co.Design blog. They’re exactly right, but for all th ...

Article - Lawrence Kitson - March 17, 2011 - 7 comments - 0 attachments

UX practitioners are both the agents of change and the objects of it. Change is something we think about a lot, whether as something we're trying to promote, to predict, or to rectify. Understanding change means understanding its engine, technology, the ...

Article - Sean Scott - March 10, 2011 - 2 comments - 0 attachments

Title 2:  Why new technology needs to keep old technology in mind The New York Times recently made a quick foray into the world of information architecture (IA) with ...

Article - Hana Schank - March 09, 2011 - 9 comments - 0 attachments

When the iPad first came out, many industry pundits were quick to make comparisons: It’s a giant iPhone ! It’s twice as heavy as the Kindle! It’s an inferior laptop! The first crop of iPad applications didn’t fare much better. Design gurus sl ...

Article - Suzanne Ginsburg - March 02, 2011 - 4 comments - 0 attachments

Title 2:  Leveraging Mobile Technology for Global Education In its 2009 paper, Being Human: Human-Computer Interaction in the year 2020 , Microsoft dubbed the ...

Article - Corey Pressman - March 03, 2011 - 0 comments - 0 attachments

Hidden amongst the buzz and clutter of SXSW Interactive are some potentially interesting UX-related sessions. We took a few hours to distill the full session list down to this shorter one that includes sessions we think UX-minded people might care a ...

Article - Jonathan Anderson | UX Magazine - February 28, 2011 - 5 comments - 0 attachments

User interfaces are normally designed to be durable and predictable. People don’t like surprises, and they want to be able to repeat the same actions to get the same positive results. But judicious use of transience can make product experiences even ...

Article - Joshua Allen - March 01, 2011 - 6 comments - 0 attachments

A flood of 5-star ratings in the app store is what every developer hopes to see when they check in on their apps every morning. Positive word of mouth is the primary way great apps climb and sustain themselves at the top of the charts. Of course, featur ...

Article - Alan Tifford - February 28, 2011 - 9 comments - 0 attachments

Title 2:  UX Can’t Own Customer Experience In my previous UX Mag article , I asked the UX community to start thinking about integrated experiences across physical and ...

Article - Samantha Starmer - February 23, 2011 - 11 comments - 0 attachments