User Experience

by Elisa Miller

UXPA’s mentoring programs will begin in early 2013 and its primary mission is to provide services to those who are young in their UX careers. [Read More]

by Elizabeth Rosenzweig

World Usability Day on November 8, 2012 is focused on the usability of financial systems—a topic that affects everyone, all around the world. [Read More]

by Lucas Espinosa Menendez

10 tips for mobile usability testing, 5 top questions to consider, UX design guidelines, creating mobile sketches, and lots more in the world of mobile. [Read More]

by Chelsey Glasson

New software can read faces to detect basic emotions as someone uses a website, giving a more detailed view of how they react. [Read More]

by R.Alex Schumacher

With permanent voice recognition features appearing in popular consumer products, technology is becoming more an auditory and verbal experience than a manual and visual one. [Read More]

by Tema Frank

The Woogie, a stuffed animal into which you can insert your iPhone, helps childproof your phone, however parents must monitor the content their children view. [Read More]

by Dianne Ludwig

The increasing use of handheld devices with cameras, GPS, wireless Internet, and relatively large digital viewing screens has made Augmented Reality technology available to the general public en masse. [Read More]

by Tema Frank

Using feedback from ground handling staff, RampMate was created, increasing efficiency and airport baggage tracking capabilities while decreasing handler injury rates. [Read More]

by Tema Frank

Three-dimensional (3-D) movies may soon become more mainstream thanks to technologies that are making 3-D viewing more user-friendly. [Read More]

by Tema Frank

Cell phones with kid finders and one button emergency calls. Music on a memory stick. [Read More]

by Tema Frank

Blio, designed to make e-books accessible to the visually impaired, allows users to read, or have read to them, e-books on regular computers or handheld devices. [Read More]

by Tema Frank

Flexible, organic light-emitting diode (OLED) display technology is about to revolutionize the world of portable computing, making mobile phones lighter and more durable. [Read More]

by Tema Frank

Platformic is making breakthroughs in web management usability, thanks to its ability to develop CSS without needing a programmer or web design software. [Read More]

by Tema Frank

The marketing campaign for TriSpecs™ is focused on user experience as the key selling feature, however the website itself is not a great model of usability. [Read More]

by Tema Frank

The latest iteration of a colorful web-based computer program illustrates the “thought process” of a computer faced with making a move in a chess game. The Thinking Machine 4 (http://www.turbulence.org/spotlight/thinking/method.html) lets you see how it analyzes each possible move before it decides how to respond to yours. Using threads of green for your moves and […] [Read More]

by Tema Frank

With the aging of the baby boomers, product developers are realizing that there’s money to be made by making products more user-friendly to older people. [Read More]

by Tema Frank

Cursing the driver who swerved in front of you is one thing, but cursing at your own car is quite another. It may become increasingly common as cars take on an ever-expanding role of keeping those in the driver’s seat driving safely. [Read More]

by Whitney Quesenbery

Review of the Kindle, Amazon's wireless reading device. [Read More]

by Tema Frank

A product called Twine, currently in beta testing, aims to help users keep track of online information and make them available for easy retrieval and sharing. [Read More]

by Tema Frank

Medical Records Institute launched EMRCompare, a website that compares electronic medical records programs on usability, costs and functionalities. [Read More]

by Tema Frank

Mass collaboration in the development process can lead to simple to produce, inexpensive, and user-friendly devices [Read More]

by Tema Frank

Manufacturers are starting to realize that usability, rather than more features, can be a successful way to differentiate their products. [Read More]

by Tema Frank

Nintendo broke a usability barrier with its Wii gaming system by creating an interface that could be easily learned by users less experienced with gaming. [Read More]

by Tema Frank

Airbus’s new A380 super-jumbo employees volunteered to do “ethnographic” usability testing; the first in-air test with a full-size passenger load on board. [Read More]

by Tema Frank

The Arthritis Foundation’s Ease of Use Commendation program seeks to identify products that are easy to use by people with arthritis. [Read More]