User Experience

Agile and UX: A View from 2009Several activities at UPA 2009 focused on shared experiences of working in Agile environments. (See box for Agile definitions.) Six presentations, one […]

Agile Teams: Best Practices for Agile Development Based on the belief that a final product evolves through quick and multiple iterations (“sprints”), diverse organizations are increasingly applying Agi […]

Get it RITE: Rapid Iterative Testing and Evaluation (RITE) Our user experience (UX) team at Nationwide collaborated with an internal business team within Nationwide Financial on an ongoing project. Together, we […]

What’s So Hard About Enterprise UX?: ERP Software RevisitedDuring the last twenty years, enterprise resource planning (ERP) software has become a standard fixture of the daily work environment of many […]

Usability Maturity Models: Making your Company User-Centered Usability maturity models are methods for developing user-centered design processes in companies in order to facilitate usability methodologies for […]

Enterprise Usability Maturity: Designing an Enterprise Application Suite The Usability Maturity Model Inspired by similar models for software development and quality assurance, the Usability Maturity Model synthesized by […]

User-Centered Procurement: Evaluating the Usability of “Off-the-Shelf” Software In a 2008 article fo User Experience (Volume 7, Issue 1) Jerrod Larson described how some enterprise software (e.g., portals, expense software, learning […]

Corporate UX Maturity: A Model for Organizations Organizations and their products and services have a user experience regardless if the organization is consciously managing it. User experience […]

<!–:en–>The View From Here: Garbage In, Garbage Out—the Agile Way<!–:–>The introduction of Agile methods into the software development process began over a decade ago and with each passing year it has gained increasing […]

<!–:en–>What's News: New Computer Technologies to Be Rolled Out<!–:–>Way back in the 1990s, I had a fold-out keyboard that I plugged into my Palm Pilot handheld organizer when I wanted to take notes at a meeting. I […]

<!–:en–>Editor's Note: User Experience Development: What? So What? Now What?<!–:–>This special issue focusing on user experience strategies, tactics, models, and their relation to rapid software development techniques, owes its […]

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It’s Not Easy Being Green: Creating a Green User ExperienceOver the past several years, because of an environmental crisis that has made headline after headline, more users (as well as product developers) are […]

Live More Sustainably: Smart Tools Reduce Our Impact on the Environment Some people believe that making people consume less and more carefully—whether it is energy, food, clothing, consumer durables, etc.—is not a use […]

About World Usability Day 2009: Designing for a Sustainable World World Usability Day (WUD) was founded in 2005 as a UPA initiative.  Each year, on the second Thursday of November, events are organized around the […]

Sustainable Design at Home Recently, my wife and I decided to redesign the kitchen in our twenty-five-year old home. We decided to explore green alternatives to save energy and […]

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 […]