Love this post!!! Storeyboarding across seemingly unrelated artforms... And I love comics! 
Rapid user testing is an integral part of the lean UX process, getting successful products to market quickly. We can provide rapid user testing for products and systems in any sector. 
User Experience Design (UX) - Interaction, Interface & Insights - Welcome! 
Despite regular user complaints, it's Facebook's design that keeps people using it, says report at computing interface conference. Via ArianeBeldi 
"This blog post might not make justice to the depth and expertise that the discipline of Information Architecture deserves (although the definition of Information Architecture is still in flux) so I’m providing links at the end of this post to other websites that can take you much deeper into Information Architecture." 
"A picture is worth a thousand words. An interface is worth a thousand pictures." 
What UX professionals bring to the table is in measuring the points of contact between the organization and a customer. 
Selling Content Strategy SHOULD be part of your UX strategy... 
"In the applications user experience (UX) world, I'd prefer to think of gamification as matching how users think as they work with the best design that will achieve task goals and business objectives. It’s not about how users play games with applications. It's about knowing user roles, tasks, goals and giving users a self-motivating experience that takes engagement and participation to a higher level, making application usage more satisfying." 
The thing that leaves people scratching their heads is the mantra, Design for mobile first! “What does that mean, exactly?,” they ask. Via Kazumichi Sakata (Mario) 
It’s a mistake to think international UX research is something you can’t afford to do. There are valuable options across a range of budgets, and the long-term strategic advantages far outweigh the short-term costs. And, as with any good UX research, this international UX work will also help your organization mitigate risk, better understand the needs of customers, and maintain its strategic advantage by designing more user-centric products and services. This wonderful commentary covers the gamut of software enginerring and designing experiences and how these two disciplines are changing humanity...
These vignettes draw comparisons between software and medicine — in their dual capacities to heal and to hurt. They explore the nature of addictive technologies in relation to business, the power that software designers are presently wielding over the masses, and a new way of imagining companies: as medicine men for the species. I hope these vignettes will help to inspire the engineering community to adopt a common set of ethical principles to guide the evolution of software (which, in turn, will help to guide the evolution of our species). Thanks to Sep Kamvar and Annie Correal for reading drafts. – Jonathan Harris, May 2012 
UX design involves a lot of prototyping and when prototypes are needed then prototype tools can be used to enhance this job. Usually prototyping involves sketches in paper but also some other good tools like PowerPoint 2010! |
In today’s competitive environment, with numerous social applications and ways to engage clients, retailers must utilize metrics to stay in the race.
While each retailer may have a unique strategy to analyze their success with metrics, the new Metrics Therapy — Details, Dashboards and Diligence Whitepaper - http://bit.ly/LigJEC [PDF] by the e-tailing group Baynote - http://bit.ly/Lih0r1 ; - reveals just how successfully companies are integrating these finds into their marketing strategies.
Overall, the Report revealed that while the overwhelming majority of retailers view analytics evaluation as the number one factor in customer retention and loyalty [93%], their use of metrics is still a big work in progress.
Download/Embed: http://bit.ly/LihkG8 ; Via maxOz, Fred JG Zimny 
Alan Cooper gave a presentation at Maker Faire May 2012 about his new found farm lifestyle and the parallels he sees to software and life.
WATCH IT PEOPLE! It's Alan Cooper! 
Great post on Cognitive Barriers & Cognitive Load! On a general level, quality assurance (QA) and user experience (UX) for mobile applications work toward the same objectives as when applied to any other software development cycle. 
Lest we forget the Art of Sketching... 
The user experience has gone virtual. Ecommerce is huge. Everyone has a website. Parents are registering domains for their unborn babies to guarantee ownership of the virtual real estate. Upcoming generations are digital ... 
Let’s look at why redesigns happen, and some straightforward and inexpensive ways we might avoid them. 
Design your experinces around Social CRM, this will move your clients towards the future of customer relationship mgmt... Many platforms are already evolving... A new infographic from Our Social Times pits traditional CRM against the rise of social CRM. Via Fred JG Zimny 
There's been a lot of buzz about user experience lately. About how the impact of a brand is not measured by how often the brand name is mentioned but the experience of using the brand is. 
The OODA loop (Observe, Orient, Decide, and Act) is an information startegy concept modeled from information warfare and developed by Colonel John Boyd. Have you ever wondered what Sun Tzu's "The Art of War" and User Experience have in common?? This might just surprise you... 
Empathy goes a long way. What motivators, challenges or pressures are the people around you experiencing? Nothing is done in a vacuum. Stay aware of how your actions might impact others. Before anything else, define what success is to ... |
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