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Persona Grata

A divisive tool among practitioners, personas can bring the perspective of your end users into the design process and help build consensus among stakeholders.
Article - Shlomo Goltz - July 2, 2014 - 6 Comments

Using Post-Service Personas to Design Closure Experiences

Post-Service Personas help you understand the emotions of users after they end their relationship with a service or product, leading to better closure experiences.
Article - Joe Macleod - June 27, 2014 - 1 Comments

How to Use Persona Empathy Mapping

A workshop activity that forges alignment on user needs, goals, and pain-points, Persona Empathy Mapping bridges the gap between personas and design concepts.
Article - Nikki Knox - June 27, 2014 - 11 Comments

The Eight Most Common Mistakes Made on UX Design Projects

Arrogance and seven other common mistakes can easily derail a design project. Avoid them all.
Article - Joseph Dickerson - June 25, 2014 - 6 Comments

Fixing Six Mistakes Companies Make when Working with UXers

A survey of common mistakes companies make when working with experience design practitioners provides guidelines for UX success.
Article - Sarah Doody - June 9, 2014 - 8 Comments

How to Pitch to Your Stakeholders like Don Draper

UX professionals can learn a lot about how to deliver a forceful, commanding, and compelling pitch from Mad Men's Don Draper.
Article - Joseph Dickerson - June 5, 2014 - 1 Comments

The Winning Experience of Playing Video Games for Beer

A closer look at the results in the Interactive Component of an Advertising Campaign category of the international Design for Experience awards.
Article - UX Magazine Staff - May 12, 2014 - 0 Comments

Identifying Edges and the Art of the Wireframe

Like a jigsaw puzzle, completing a wireframe requires demarcating the edges and is best done in collaboration with others.
Article - Jordan Julien - April 28, 2014 - 0 Comments

"Yes, and" the Improv of UX

How the techniques that actors use in an improv setting can enhance the collaborative process we use in experience design.
Article - Heather Wydeven - April 24, 2014 - 5 Comments

UX as Design Leadership

Extending your passion for asking questions and seeking answers into relationships with your team members is an example-led way of evangelizing the power of UX.
Article - Jared Lewandowski, Christijan Draper - April 15, 2014 - 3 Comments

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