Getting Better Design Feedback: Anonymized User Research
Anonymity can affect the quality of user research. To ensure anonymity, UX professionals must set expectations around privacy and follow best practices about revealing personal information that might identify research participants. [Read More]
Is That Product Idea Really Good? (Book Review)
A review of Validating Product Ideas Through Lean User Research by Tomer Sharon. Guidance for why, when and how to conduct user research for product design. [Read More]
Effective and Efficient: Conducting UX and Design Reviews
Lead effective and efficient design reviews in your organization. This method consists of three targeted rounds of reviews. [Read More]
Current Customers: The Kano Model Helps Keep Personas Fresh
Understanding the progression of products and human behavior according to the Kano model—customer satisfaction measured via five categories—can help you refresh personas. [Read More]
The Other Half of Your Job: Getting Your Projects Built
Turning a design into reality requires buy-in and crucial “soft people skills” that are necessary to influence others to implement your work. [Read More]
Regaining Trust: What to Do AFTER a Security Breach
Handling a security breach has UX implications. Three case studies of how Home Depot, Wendy’s, and Omni Hotels responded to such incidents show how to maintain and regain customer trust after a breach. [Read More]
From Dark Patterns to Angel Patterns: Creating Trustworthy User Experience
A users' trust is easily lost, but we can use the same elements that build confidence in our daily lives to inform trust-building design patterns [Read More]
Turning User Research on Its Head (Book Review)
A review of “Presumptive Design: Design Provocations for Innovation” by Leo Frishberg and Charles Lambdin. [Read More]
The Power of Qualitative Methods: Aha Moments in Exploring Cybersecurity and Trust
A research team learns how to incorporate qualitative research methods into their work by examining user perceptions of and experiences with cybersecurity. [Read More]
Story First for Engaging Experiences (Book Review)
A review of “The User’s Journey: Storymapping Products that People Love” by Donna Lichaw, which provides an accessible framework to help designers create engaging experiences. [Read More]
Rubes Cartoon: Bow Wow
Read more Rubes cartoons or download the new daily Rubes app at rubescartoons.com (c) 2013, Leigh Rubin, Syndicated Cartoonist [Read More]
