Personalization is when the system you are using tailors itself to you and your behavior. A good example of this is Amazon "noticing" what you are buying and changing their front page to feature similar items. Customization is when the…
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Highlights from UPA2012, courtesy of Twitter
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The death of the UI…?
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How would a hotel designed by a UX professional differ from the traditional experience?
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What technique(s) would you use to evaluate and [re]define fields in a lengthy form?
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What are general good practices for improving a design’s usability?
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The rise of the enablers
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What are the benefits of User Experience design?
There are several benefits to user experience design, and I'll list some of them. Before I begin, a quick note: user experience design to me encompasses EVERYTHING, from UI design to customer support processes to retail store design and packaging.…
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How hard is it to communicate to developers a UX point of view?
The best response I have to this question is "it depends." Depends on the organizational culture, the amount of design rationale you have to back up your design decisions, the personalities at play in both sides of the conversation, and…
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Lessons in UX and Analytics: Users aren’t data
I recently went to a conference where several sessions focused on analytics, and what analytics could provide to businesses of any size. Having some background in analytics myself, I definitely agreed with several sentiments these speakers expressed.. but I also…
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Lessons in UX: What is your “benefit case”?
I’ve worked on several design projects that resulted in “dead ends,” situations where what we created didn’t really work. I always try and learn something from these experiences, and a key lesson I’ve learned again and again was that benefits…
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What are the principles of good UX design?
These are high-level, but I think still specific enough to be actionable. These are principles to apply to a design project, and good UX design is reflected in these principles. Know your users. Have a firm and clear "target" in mind…
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Apple’s Next Big Thing could be revolutionizing software development
I used to code. And when I say “code,” I mean write HTML, JavaScript and active server pages – not full desktop applications. This was close to a decade ago, and while I have taken some software development classes since,…
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Lessons in UX: How a high-level design makes everything better
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Ancestry.com is an addicting, engrossing experience
On a whim last week I decided to try out Ancestry.com, after seeing several tv ads about the service. I had always been curious about my family’s lineage, and I thought, what the heck? Lets see how it works. Now,…
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Lessons in UX: Embrace the checklist
I’ve been re-reading the great book The Checklist Manifesto, and I’m thinking about how some of the ideas in the book can be applied to UX design. I think the primary reasons to apply a checklist-based process is to ensure…