Insights curated by Experientia, the UX research and design consultancy
Insights curated by Experientia, the UX research and design consultancy
UXnet, the user experience network, launched its new website this week, with some major improvements. UXnet is a platform organisation that provides tools and resources for the user experience community. It works with a worldwide network of local ambassadors. The…
Mitchell Ashley, ceo and chief strategist of Converging Network, analyses why there is a growing number of dissatisfied users who’ve tried and given up on Microsoft’s Vista operating system. He concludes that it is “the user experience where many of…
Michael Hawley, user experience director of Mad*Pow published an article about card sorting as a user-centred tool to reorganise information-rich web sites. “Card sorting is an appealing research technique to assist in the organization or re-organization of an information-rich Web…
“Despite the rapid development of the internet, the overall goal of designing an intuitive, easy to use website has not changed,” says Mona Patel, executive director of Human Factors International. “The challenge that exists is how to gauge customers’ emotional…
Jakob Nielsen has published the executive summary of his study of 56 intranets. The study documents intranet IA processes and the resulting designs, both in terms of the visible user interfaces and the underlying structures. The report contains detailed profiles…
Now that Donald Norman‘s new book, The Design of Future Things, has been published, the man is on a book tour and interviews with him are popping up left and right. After a first one on Core77 (see also this…
Donald Norman‘s shining career began with a post at Harvard and then the University of California, San Diego, where his interests in psychology turned toward cognitive science. As one of the founders of that field, he eventually shifted his energies…
Riyad Emeran wrote a thought piece in Trusted Reviews on what matters to people: “The thing about technology is that the vast majority people out there don’t really care about it. Despite the fact that those same people wouldn’t leave…
Business Week reports on how, with the success of the iPhone, mobile-phone players want to improve menus and other navigation tools on their handsets. “Of all the ways Apple’s iPhone is disrupting the mobile-phone industry, one of the most tangible…
Amazon is in the process of rolling out a redesigned site with a completely new primary navigation. As it is being tested, only some users get to see the new navigation and UI right now. However, Amazon have a “remodel”…
This year’s World Usability Day (WUD), a global series of events organised by the Usability Professionals’ Association (UPA), will take place on 8 November forthcoming. The WUD was founded to ensure that the services and products important to life are…