Article No. 1960 | August 18, 2021
It’s no surprise that best practices for spreading research insights across organizations have become one of the hottest topics in UX research — from building research repositories, making UX research more visible internally, or preventing silos and duplicative work. While it’s great that research can have such broad applicability within an organization, the need to make insights available to the right people at the right time to ensure maximum impact also brings challenges.
Article No. 1948 | July 22, 2021
Tight deadlines and pressure from stakeholders are often the cause for precipitate solutions that fail to meet users’ goals. On the other hand, investing time and effort into discovering the problems users encounter can benefit both the design team and become the foundation for innovation. In this article, Julia Barrett and David Lick, UX Researchers at Google, elaborate on the impact of shifting the focus from solutions to problems and provide a methodological blueprint to adopt the approach.
Article No. 1916 | April 13, 2021
How do you know if there's still room for improvement?
Article No. 1846 | November 11, 2020
Our goal was set: evaluate our app in a real-life context. But how? You can never know how your users will use the app in real-life situations. Intercept offers quick and relatively easy evaluation – combine with longer studies to the best results.
Article No. 1818 | August 27, 2020
Article No. 1775 | June 16, 2020
How to use quantitative and qualitative data to make more informed decisions.
Article No. 1718 | March 5, 2020
Integral to transforming the delivery of care are deep explorations, research, and prototyping.
Article No. 1716 | February 28, 2020
Do you want to have better conversations? User researchers have superpowers that can help you in day-to-day communication.
Article No. 1714 | February 25, 2020
What does “information” mean? How do you gather it? Where do you look for it? I generally look to collect data — quantitative and qualitative — from three resources: the business, the users and the competition.
Article No. 1708 | January 9, 2020
On the anniversary of her birth, we remember one of the most important women in science history, and celebrate the life and work of Ada Lovelace, the first computer scientist.
Article No. 1673 | February 17, 2017
We are happy to announce the winners of the 2016 UX Magazine Awards. This program recognizes excellence in products, teams, and services, and aims to bring valuable lessons from these leading examples of mastery in UX to the broader community. See the list of winners below and check out uxmag.com in coming months for a more detailed articles of every winning entry!
Article No. 1607 | April 21, 2016
Two-minute surveys are a quick and flexible tool you can use to include all of your business users and all of your market in your user research.
Article No. 1606 | April 20, 2016
User research is an immensely valuable tool to improve an enterprise product’s user experience and business value.
Article No. 1595 | April 1, 2016
We talk with UserZoom CEO Alfonso de la Nuez about the importance of user testing, how to recruit panelists, and why research is an inspiration.
Article No. 1587 | March 11, 2016
By applying the Pareto Principle to user research, you can identify the top percentage of your product's usability issues and feature gaps, then jump in and fix them.
Article No. 1578 | February 15, 2016
Whether users conceptualize the content as a “paper” document, “website,” or “electronic” document with assumed capabilities is a critical UX inquiry.
Article No. 1573 | February 2, 2016
When users are accustomed to using a pattern, even a minor change in that pattern can be very expensive in performance terms.
Article No. 1564 | January 6, 2016
Task-based testing provides an approach that allows companies to gather both quantitative and qualitative feedback from a target audience.
Article No. 1563 | January 4, 2016
If you’re working with an audience across the globe, all under budget and time constraints, remote user testing can provide the rich data to help make informed decisions.
Article No. 1549 | October 8, 2015
You don't need a big budget to bring experience design into your project, you just need to be more resourceful.
Article No. 1547 | October 5, 2015
The lead designer from Looksery—Snapchat's recent acquisition—explains how user testing led to the creation of an app people can't get enough of.
Article No. 1546 | September 30, 2015
Usability Matters invites you to take their service design heuristics into the field and discover what they can do for your organization.
Article No. 1542 | September 23, 2015
Designers can streamline their workflow and improve their products by getting down and dirty with some rough-and-tumble research methods.
Article No. 1535 | September 9, 2015
We talk with Joe Natoli, enterprise UX consultant and author of the new book, Think First.
