User Experience

Voting in New York City: Why is Ballot Design so Hard to Get Right? One Saturday in October 2010, a dozen user experience folks spent their day stopping more than 200 strangers on the streets of New York City and asking […]

Accounting for Social Change in DesignDesign. Design thinking. Design processes. Design with a capital D. These are the concepts that will shape our future. These are the tools that will […]

Ghana Calling: Dust, Multiple SIMs, and Music Sharing Prices of farm goods and maternal health information aside, everyday mobile phone use in the sub-Saharan country of Ghana is also about dust, owning […]

Mobile Technology: Design for Social ChangeMobile phone penetration around the world continues to increase at phenomenal rates that are not comparable with any other technology to date. According […]

Never Too Old: Incorporating Digital Technologies into the Lives of Older Persons Older people are the fastest growing segment of the population in Europe and the U.S. Most of them have not grown up with Information and Communication […]

A Design Method for
 BOP Users: Products for Social Innovation Ninety percent of the world’s population belongs to the socio-economic group called the Bottom of the Pyramid (BOP), which Prafalad and Hart defined a […]

<!–:en–>Designing on Mars: Participatory Design and Training in Very Unfamiliar Environments<!–:–> Let’s suppose that you are part of a design task force sent to a very different context from the one you are familiar with. Let’s also suppose tha […]

<!–:en–>What's News: Mommy, Can I Play with Your iPhone?<!–:–> Imagine: You are sitting in the pediatrician’s office and the wait is getting mighty long. Junior is whining. In desperation, you lend your little d […]

<!–:en–>Book Review: Of Testing and Techniques<!–:–> A review of Beyond the Usability Lab: Conducting Large-Scale Online User Experience Studies By Bill Albert, Tom Tullis, Donna Tedesco. Morgan Kaufmann, […]

<!–:en–>Editor's Note: Designing for Social Change<!–:–>This special issue’s theme of “Designing for Social Change” was adopted to match the themes of the UPA Conference taking place June 20-24, 2011 and W […]

<!–:en–>Rubes Cartoon: Floss Daily<!–:–> Read more Rubes cartoons or download the new daily Rubes app at rubescartoons.com (c) 2010, Leigh Rubin, Syndicated Cartoonist [greybox]Birds flossing an alligator’s teeth.[/greybox]

MESS Days: Working with Children to Design and Deliver Worthwhile Mobile ExperiencesMESS (Mad Evaluation Sessions with Schoolchildren) If designing usable products for people is hard, designing products for children is even harder. Children have a more difficult time conveying what they […]

Designing for Children: Supporting Positive Youth Development through Social Media How can we design digital spaces for children and teens to play, learn, and interact with each other that have a developmental purpose and goal, and […]

Testing by Minors: Risk Prevention for UX ProsMany usability professionals hesitate to conduct testing with children because of the potential risks of working with them. Could they be sued for […]

You Need an Outlet and a Browser: How Children Understand and Use the Internet Children today begin using the Web at a very young age, probably younger than anyone reading this article did. They are also one of the Web’s largest u […]

Looking Closely at e-Learning: Vision Research Reveals Ways to Improve Children’s Experiences I’m fascinated by the educational opportunities e-learning is bringing into our homes and classrooms. I’m thrilled when I see how engaged and mot […]

The Story Behind the One Laptop per Child PC: An Inteview with Yves Béhar(One Laptop per Child) Yves Béhar is the designer behind the One Laptop per Child Personal Computer (OLPC). Originally, the scaled-down, $100 laptop was greeted with […]

Designing
 for Children
 with ADHD: The Search for Guidelines for Non-Experts Designing for children can seem daunting enough. Designing software for use in a classroom brings an additional challenge, as there may be children in […]

Kidsteam: Co-designing Children’s Technologies with ChildrenKidsteam I haven’t been a child in a long time. Although it was one of my first roles as a person, I really don’t remember a lot of details. If you asked me to […]

Keep It Simple. 
At First: Designing Game-Based
 Tools for Youth Since its release in 2004, World of Warcraft (WoW) has become one of the most popular video games worldwide. Boasting an estimated player base of 11.5 […]