November 2008
15 posts
““It’s important to come up with the best text possible, because despite the term...”
– Choosing the Language for a User Interface :: UXmatters
Design Guidelines: Content
Make information easy to find with clear headings and meaningful sub-headings (not ‘clever’ ones).
Break up the information into manageable pieces.
Put the pieces in a logical order for your readers.
Keep your sentences short and employ one idea per paragraph.
Use the ‘inverted pyramid’ style: conclusion (context) first, results later.
Talk to your readers. Use “you”.
Write in the...
Making decisions about User Research
Importance to the business: Just how important is the project/application in meeting organisational/business goals?
Importance to users: What will happen to users if you mess up. Will they be harmed, or will they just go elsewhere?
$$: How much is the project going to cost? (i.e. how much will be wasted if you mess up)
Profile/politics: What sort of profile does your project have? Is there a...
HiPPO - Highest Paid Person's Opinion
What have I been doing? It turns out there is a phrase for it, and it’s been around a while.
“HiPPO’s rule the world when it comes to creating customer experiences. And that’s a bad thing. No matter what you think the optimal customer experience should be on the website it is quite likely that you walk into a meeting room, or office, and regardless of your competence the HiPPO decides what goes...
Agile + UX: six strategies for more agile user... →
Six ways to be more agile and better integrate user experience and information architecture into agile development teams.
“In the beginning, there was the Bradley Effect.The Bradley Effect describes an...”
– excerpted from WHY THE BRADLEY EFFECT IS NOT ABOUT RACE by Kath Straub (User Experience Design Update Newsletter - October, 2008., Human Factors International) View Online
“Rapid Iterative Testing and Evaluation, typically referred to as...”
– RITE Method
WatchSeattle Conference on Scalability: Scaling Google for Every User - Marissa Myer, Vice President, Search Products & User Experience
WatchBlaise Aguera y Arcas demos Photosynth | sourced from TED.com
Photosynth is a software application from Microsoft Live Labs and the University of Washington that analyzes digital photographs to build a three-dimensional point cloud of a photographed object. Pattern recognition components compare portions of images to create points, which are then compared to convert the image into a model. Users...
“In computing, ribbons are graphical user interface widgets composed of a strip...”
– Ribbon (computing) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
“What is a heuristic evaluation? The goal of heuristic evaluation is to find...”
– Heuristic Evaluation - Usability Methods | Usability.gov