Sep 17th 09
UIEtips article: Avoiding Demographics When Recruiting Participants
User research is now a critical tool in the toolbox of design teams. However, it only works well if you involve the right participants in the study.
Having the participants that match the design’s audience will give the team feedback on what works well and where the design needs rethinking. By learning from the participants, the team can make informed design decisions on all aspects of the...
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Sep 13th 09
Gestures set to shake up Mobile User Interfaces
Gesture controls, augmented reality and larger screen sizes are about to change our mobile use habits even more.
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Sep 7th 09
Best Practices for Designing Faceted Search Filters
By Greg Nudelman
Published: September 7, 2009
“By following the attribute-based filtering design best practices this article describes, you can ensure your customers can take care of business without having to spend time struggling with your search user interface.” Recently, Office Depot redesigned their search user interface, adding attribute-based filtering and creating a more dynamic, interactive...
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Sep 7th 09
What’s My Persona? Developing a Deep and Dimensioned Character
By Traci Lepore
Published: September 7, 2009
“Designers gather data to understand the personas that represent the users for whom they are designing a user interface. This is quite similar to the way actors must develop an understanding of their characters.” Recently, I played a character that was originally written as a male. Now, it was Shakespeare, so some gender bending wasn’t totally out...
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Sep 7th 09
Defining Social Media Settings
By Junaid Asad
Published: September 7, 2009
“UX professionals must now take up a new design challenge. We must address the changing needs for social media and facilitate users’ taking better advantage of everything social media has to offer.” In a previous article for UXmatters, “The Social Buzz: Designing User Experiences for Social Media,” I discussed the phenomenal rise and fast-spreading...
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Patrick is an accomplished Sr. User Interface Developer and Architect specializing in Web Applications, Web 2.0 and eLearning with extensive experience in the full life cycle of the software design process including project planning, design, testing, client communications, training, de-bugging, implementation and maintenance. His book, Modern Ui, Social Usability for Web 2.0 and Beyond is in production and will be available at Barnes and Noble, Borders, Amazon as well as many other fine retailers in Winter 2009-2010.
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