Dear Diary: Using Diaries to Study User Experience

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A UX diary contains notes on experiences using an application in a natural environment. Learn how to use diaries in your research studies. [Read More]

Hold the Sprinkles! Design Mapping for Agile UX Design


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Agile design teams can often get swept up in a single product feature, iterating that one feature to its most perfect state. [Read More]

Testing by Teaching: Peer Tutoring, a Usability Evaluation Method for Children

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Peer Tutoring helps engage and encourage children during usability testing. The social context makes the test more natural, resulting in richer findings. [Read More]

Making the Case: Rounding Out Usability Testing with Web Analytics

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Using qualitative data, you can plan usability tests and analyze test results by reviewing where users currently go on your site. [Read More]

Mobilize: Make Good Things Come in Small Packages

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How do you squeeze a feature-rich math desktop program into a lightweight mobile app? Start with the features most users need for most tasks. [Read More]

Which Path Is for Me? The Emerging Role of VP of UX

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Ever wonder if you have what it takes to be a VP of UX? Chelsey Glasson and Ian Swinson spoke with twelve UX VPs about their roles. [Read More]

Simplicity, Not So Simple: Embracing Deep Gradual Engagement

Simplification is not so simple. Fundamentally, simple is good when it comes to experience design, but there is typically a trade-off. [Read More]

The “A” Word: Accessibility as Part of UX

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Accessibility is often misunderstood, maligned, or misinterpreted. To create extraordinary digital experiences, accessibility must come together with usability, creativity, and technology. [Read More]

Back to the Future: UX in the Past 100 Years of Science Fiction

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If you want to look into the future of UX design, take a close look at the science fiction movies of the last 100 years. [Read More]

Making Everything Fit (Book Review)

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A review of Responsive Web Design by Ethan Marcotte
Making a case and practical instruction for creating a design that scales based on platform. [Read More]

Editor’s Note: What’s in a Name?

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UPA has changed its name to UXPA—the User Experience Professionals’ Organization. [Read More]

WUD 2012: The Usability of Financial Systems

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World Usability Day on November 8, 2012 is focused on the usability of financial systems—a topic that affects everyone, all around the world. [Read More]

Rubes Cartoons: Be Reasonable

Cartoons from the wild and twisted world of Leigh Rubin, syndicated cartoonist. [Read More]