User Experience

Sustainability is Interactive Often, when I speak with interaction designers and usability professionals, I hear the same question, “I work on websites and interfaces. What i […]

Xeriscaping: Sustainability in Practice I wonder whether what I’m doing at the moment is the greenest thing I can do? How do I make the best choices to be as sustainable as possible? And, a […]

Accidental Sustainability The idea is that good usability can help create a more sustainable world by creating products that use recycled components, work to insure a better […]

Coping Daily with Green Ethics In a world where Chevron Oil and the utility companies tell me to use less of their product, classic marketing has gone mad, and some challenges to my […]

The Green Machine: Going Green at Home Thanks to global awareness campaigns such as Al Gore’s An Inconvenient Truth, the problem of global warming and its worrisome threat is no longer in q […]

Experiencing Change: The New and the Old The Information and Communications Technology (ICT) age of the last thirty years has been hailed as changing the human condition and our course through […]

Sustainable Data Centers: The Dirt on Clean ComputingInformation Technology (IT) looks clean. Individually our laptops and mobile phones consume only small amounts of energy and there are no apparent […]

<!–:en–>The View from Here: Living Near the Base of the Pyramid<!–:–>The San Angel district of Mexico City where I work is home to some of the richer and more traditional families in the city. It’s a very pretty area w […]

Letters to the EditorDear UX Editors, ELMER has been selected as a finalist to the European eGovernment Awards 2009 in Malmö, Sweden (http://www.epractice.eu/awards). An […]

<!–:en–>What's News: Simplifying Web Design and Management<!–:–>Words like “easy” and “simple” are used repeatedly by companies marketing website content management systems (CMS) designed to make it possibl […]

<!–:en–>Book Review: Design Problems in Book Form<!–:–> Design is the Problem: The Future of Design Must be Sustainable By Nathan Shedroff Rosenfeld Media, 2009 Nathan Shedroff tells us in the first few […]

<!–:en–>Editor's Note: Greening the User Experience, and Goodbye<!–:–>Achieving sustainability, reducing one’s carbon footprint, “going green,” whatever one might call it, has gone from being a peripheral concern suppo […]

<!–:en–>Rubes Cartoon: Save the Trees<!–:–> [greybox] Paper towel dispenser with “Save the Trees” printed on the towels.  [/greybox] Read more Rubes cartoons or download the new daily Rubes app at rubescartoons.com (c)2009, Leigh Rubin.  Syndicated Cartoonist

New Standards to Help Screen Readers Navigate Web Forms: Techniques to Improve Usability for All Introduction Web 2.0 entices web authors with dynamic capabilities, but these advances in performance and functionality have proven a barrier to a […]

Role Reversal: Testing for Ease of Learning and Recall Training users on a new software package can be very expensive and should be a consideration in software development. When users cannot be pulled from […]

Stepping In: An Outsider’s Guide to Crossing the Digital Divide India, Kenya, Brazil, Chile. Coffee growers, rural farmers, wine producers, village self-help groups, and rural schools. HCI researchers are used to […]

Model-driven Inquiry: A Streamlined Approach to Data Collection How do we know what users need? Arguably the best known, and possibly the most widely practiced approach, is field study using contextual inquiry, an […]

Help! Where Is It When You Need It? Over the last few years we have conducted usability testing of many web applications and forms and have observed some common behaviors. First of all, […]

Information Graphics: An Eclectic Celebration Every decade, professionals interested in effective visual communication publish guidebooks for business people, computer and information-technology […]

User Interview Techniques: Guidelines for Obtaining Better ResultsInterviewing skills are the core of user research, but how do you know if you are a good interviewer? Are you getting the most from your time with […]