SUStisfied? Little-Known System Usability Scale Facts
SUS will continue to provide a reliable, valid and quick measure of ease of use and average SUS scores may increase due to UX improvements. [Read More]
Engaging Users in Product Design: Bridging the Gap from Insight to Strategy
More researchers should partner with their users in targeted research and design activities to help bridge the gap between insight and strategy. [Read More]
Design Like da Vinci: Sketching Lessons from the Original Renaissance Man
Michael Gelb’s How to Think Like Leonardo da Vinci, drawing from Leonardo’s sketch-books, provides designers and usability practitioners lessons in better thinking and problem solving. [Read More]
Separate but Unequal: Web Interfaces for People with Disabilities
A separate, unequal interface is not an acceptable accessibility solution. Good design values having one interface accessible to the widest range of users and situations. [Read More]
From One Student to Another: Advice for Beginning a Career in User Experience
As you enter the UX job market, remember that each opportunity is a means to build your story and showcase your value or potential impact. [Read More]
Designing with a Service Perspective: A Bronx Tale
The world is heavily reliant on services. User experience and design professionals are primed to apply a service perspective for making these experiences effective. [Read More]
Helping Students Go to College: Lessons Learned from the KnowHow2GO Public Service Campaign
Public service campaigns, like KnowHow2GO.org, intended for college bound students, must understand how best to present necessary information in order to serve large, diverse audiences. [Read More]
How Was It for You?: Helping People Describe Their Experiences
Usability study participants may choose words from a list to assist their feedback. Produc-ing one set of words for an entire user population proves challenging. [Read More]
Power in Numbers: Measuring Usability with Web Analytics
Web analytics provide usability professionals working with websites an opportunity to gain deeper insight into their users and communicate the value of their work. [Read More]
On the Edge: Branding the User Experience
Branding establishes and maintains people’s identification with and “loyalty” to people, companies, products, and services and likely this focus on branding may increase in prevalence. [Read More]
What’s News: Voice Recognition Technology Aiming Higher
With permanent voice recognition features appearing in popular consumer products, technology is becoming more an auditory and verbal experience than a manual and visual one. [Read More]
A Book That Talks (Book Review)
A review of Practical Speech User Interface Design by James R. Lewis. Recommended for students and seasoned practitioners with an interest in design of speech user interfaces. [Read More]
Editor’s Note: Short and Tweet
Our Editor’s Notes usually focus on a theme, but this issue (gasp) doesn’t have a theme! Instead, there is something here for everyone. [Read More]
WUD in Manila: An Interview with Regnard Raquedan
Editor Joe Bugental talks to usability consultant Regnard Raquedan about last year’s World Usability Day, celebrated in the Philippines, and his plans for this year’s event. [Read More]
Rubes Cartoon: So Your Windows Crashed
Cartoons from the wild and twisted world of Leigh Rubin, syndicated cartoonist. [Read More]
