Sep 16th 09
User Testing: Do You Have the Right People In the Room?
In our next UIE Virtual Seminar, Recruiting for Usability Testing on Wednesday, September 30, Usability testing expert Dana Chisnell shows you how to maximize your time and money on the right participants to get the right results.
User Experience research lives or dies by the appropriateness of the participants in the study.
UX researchers just don’t talk about actively recruiting, do they?...
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Sep 16th 09
Mapping The Archive: 30 Years of Ars Electronica Visualized in Huge Scale
The Ars Electronica festival has finally finished. As I mentioned in my previous “quick look” post before the festival, the most interesting data visualization project exhibited in this year’s Ars Electronica was the 10m by 3m wall print titled “Mapping The Archive: 30 Years of Ars Electronica”, developed by the Ludwig Boltzmann Institute (LBI) for Media.Art.Research.
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Sep 15th 09
UX Booth Town Hall: Wednesday, September 16th
Tomorrow. Wednesday at 7PM. Here. Make it.
Get ready for our first ever UX Booth Town Hall tomorrow, September 16th at 7PM EST.
We’re hosting a group discussion to go over some exciting new things around UX Booth, to hear your feedback, and get to know the community a bit better. If you’re interested in connecting with others in the community, improving the booth, and having your voice...
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Sep 9th 09
The problem with interviewing kids
At UX Brighton last night GiGi Demming (Head of User Testing at SCEE in London) gave a talk on gameplay research involving kids. She neatly summed up one of the problems with interviewing kids – the “I like turtles effect”:
Using a feedreader and can’t see the video?
This video went viral a couple of years ago and has had about 12.5 million views, so you may have seen it before....
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Sep 8th 09
User Experience Designer vs. Creative Director
Professionals within our industry are completely awash with opportunities by which they can tweak and cajole better User Experiences from their projects. The difficult part is maintaining quality across all of these channels. Because of how multifaceted User Experience is, a User Experience designer begins to take on a more directorial position within a project/company, which I see as analogous...
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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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