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Designing Effective UX for Human Eyes
Habil Emmanuail
The success of a design completely depends upon how the users interact with it.
Just Add Water: Lessons Learned from Mixing Data Science and Design Research Methods to Improve Customer Service
Ovetta Sampson
When design teams work with data scientists and ethnographers, they can design a...
Best visualization projects of 2008
Alex Schleifer
Rich data visualization toolkits
Jonathan Anderson | UX Magazine
Hey, Movie Recommenders! We Need To Focus On The User’s Experience
Jake Cohn
We need to improve on uncovering the true things that make people like movies. And...
Algorithms and the (Incomplete) Stories They Tell Us
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The stories algorithms provide must be designed to create true value for people, or...
New Google Analytics: First Impressions
Alex Schleifer
Google’s free metrics service gets an upgrade.
Research Where Your Channels Cross
Jessica Peterson
Solid UX requires understanding the relationships customers have with your different...
Payroll Apps Should Deliver More Than a Stub
Will Scott
A review of the the Paychex Flex iOS app shows areas where employee benefits and...
Understanding Your App
Arthur Moan
Task-based testing provides an approach that allows companies to gather both...
Standard Conventions, Innovative Experiences
Jordan Julien
Using standard conventions, you can pave the way toward innovative user experiences...
Design for Experience: Foresight of User Needs
UX Magazine Staff, Design for Experience
A closer look at the Design for Experience awards category: Foresight of User Needs
The Power of Value Stream Maps
James Torio, Rishabh Dayal
Mapping the path of a customer's experience shows where improvements can be...
Hosting a Page Description Workshop
Colin Butler, Andrew Wirtanen
If you want to create a Page Description Diagram that reflects the needs of your...
Design for Experience: Innovative Research Technique
UX Magazine Staff, Design for Experience
A closer look at the Design for Experience awards category: Innovative Research...
Touch-Free Interactions as an Innovative Approach to Audience Engagement
Oleh Hasoshyn, Mike Chalyi
How Microsoft Kinect and an open-minded approach to natural user interface design...
Design for Experience: Bringing Order to Big Data
UX Magazine Staff, Design for Experience
A closer look at the Design for Experience awards category: Bringing Order to Big...
Winning Combinations: Putting Data and Design Together
Hunter Whitney
UX has a key role in helping users visualize data to find meaning in large, complex...
A Few Fits about the Flawed UX of Fitbit Flex
Jason Ogle
A review of Fitbit Flex—the popular piece of wearable technology that tracks your...
The Emmys and Earthquakes, Shaking Up Social Media
UX Magazine Staff
The battle rages on to create compelling experiences that bank of the connectivity...
Win This Book! How to Transform Your Ideas into Software Products
UX Magazine Staff
Enter to win a copy of Poornima Vijayashanker's new book, How to Transform Your...
Win This Book! See What I Mean: How to Use Comics to Communicate Ideas
Josh Tyson | UX Magazine
Enter to win a new book by Kevin Cheng that explores the persuasive power of comics.
Approaching Data with a Beginner’s Mind
Hunter Whitney
Approaching complex data visualizations with open minds and fresh eyes.
Flipping Through Drawing Ideas
UX Magazine Staff
Join us on a video tour of Drawing Ideas: A hand-drawn approach for better design,...
A Walk Down Front-End Development Lane
Mike Germaine, Katie O'Reilly
Looking back over the rapidly changing landscape through 32 years of front-end-...
Tinkering in the Model Shop
Hunter Whitney
UX practitioners can learn valuable skills for complex projects from scientific...
Five User Experience Lessons from Laura Dern
Steve Tengler
Potent lessons in improving user-centered designs from an unlikely source: Laura...
Dashboard UIs: An Introduction
Max Steenbergen
Looking at some of the design and usability challenges for non-desktop dashboard UIs.
Win This Book (Again)! Drawing Ideas
UX Magazine Staff
We're giving away two more copies of Drawing Ideas, and this time, the authors...
Five Lessons Learned Doing User Research in Asia
Carissa Carter
Conducting user research in a region as sprawling, diverse, and rapidly changing as...
Review: The Mobile Book - Smashing Magazine
Steve Tengler
The Mobile Book, from the folks at Smashing Magazine, harnesses the chaos of the...
In Search of Knowledge: MOOC.org Will Change the Experience of Learning
Livia Veneziano
A learning initiative between Harvard and MIT, edX is creating an open-source...
Using a dashboard, the user must be able to extract and process visual stimuli reliably and quickly

Shilpi Choudhury

Four Cognitive Design Guidelines for Effective Information Dashboards

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