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- Excerpt From the New Book "Simple and Usable"
This is an excerpt from my new book, Simple and Usable , released this month by Peachpit Press . UX Magazine is also running a giveaway for five copies of the book . If you'd like to purchase the book, visit the book's page on peachpit.com ...
Article - Giles Colborne - September 21, 2010 - 11 comments - 0 attachments
- Doing More with Remote Research
Title 2: Exploring Physical and Social Contexts Chances are, you've encountered remote user experience research . Perhaps you've read about it in an article or h ...
Article - Juliette Melton, Brynn Evans - August 17, 2010 - 6 comments - 0 attachments
- Informing Smartphone App Design
All smartphone app ideas start somewhere—an entrepreneur starts scribbling on some napkins at the local coffee shop, a visionary sketches on a whiteboard, a team has a brainstorm. Regardless of how your app begins, most app ideas are relatively ...
Article - Suzanne Ginsburg - September 01, 2010 - 4 comments - 0 attachments
- The Dirtiest Word in UX: Complexity
It’s hard to read anything about UX without finding a reference to the constant tension between simplicity and complexity. People have strong preconceived notions about the words, especially when it comes to experience design. You don’t have to be a UX ...
Article - Francisco Inchauste - July 06, 2010 - 25 comments - 0 attachments
- Engagement, Entertainment, or Get The Task Done
Title 2: Cognitive, visual, and motor loads in UX design You peruse the news at your favorite online news site. You watch the latest episode of your favorite TV show at ...
Article - Susan Weinschenk, Ph.D. - June 17, 2010 - 1 comment - 0 attachments
- Beyond Frustration: Three levels of happy design
I'm a devotee of TED talks . I was once assigned to watch several TED talks to deconstruct what made each a good or a bad presentation. TED topics are wide-ranging, though they generally relate to the categories that make up the "TED" acronym: Techno ...
Article - Dana Chisnell - June 16, 2010 - 11 comments - 0 attachments
- iPad vs. iPhone: A User Experience Study
Our 2-year-olds can use it . It's a brilliant entertainment device . But what sort of business potential does the iPad offer? Several companies have shown interest in mobile payment systems from startups like Square to mega-corporations li ...
Article - Nate Bolt, Brynn Evans, Cyd Harrell - June 10, 2010 - 26 comments - 0 attachments
- Quantifying Usability
Title 2: How injecting usability principles into standard bug tracking software can reshape how your organization approaches UX design Software development is built aro ...
Article - Alex Faaborg - May 28, 2010 - 8 comments - 0 attachments
- Review of the New UX Book "Remote Research"
NOTE: UX Magazine is running a give-away of the book reviewed in this article and it's not too late to enter! Damnit. I wanted to write a book like Remote Research (Rosenfeld, 2010), but these guys beat me to it. Though I proba ...
Article - Dana Chisnell - May 25, 2010 - 8 comments - 0 attachments
- The Psychologist’s View of UX Design
You may have heard this story about an elephant: A king brings six men into a dark building. They cannot see anything. The king says to them, "I have bought this animal from the wild lands to the East. It is called an elephant." "What is an elephant ...
Article - Susan Weinschenk, Ph.D. - May 19, 2010 - 98 comments - 0 attachments