As UX professionals we need to serve as gatekeepers to properly handle ethical challenges when using videos of users’ participation within large sample new research tools.
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How remote friendly companies can attract top UX talent by breaking location barriers and increasing productivity and work/life balance.
Using tweets to understand what a geographical neighborhood is like shows both the promise and some of the limitations of big data analysis.
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A man stands just inside a door with a sign that says Department of Psychology.
The room is filled with a maze.
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With the right strategies and tools, distributed design teams can maintain effective communication and creative collaboration.
A review of “The User’s Journey: Storymapping Products that People Love” by Donna Lichaw, which provides an accessible framework to help designers create engaging experiences.
A review of Validating Product Ideas Through Lean User Research by Tomer Sharon. Guidance for why, when and how to conduct user research for product design.
Understanding the progression of products and human behavior according to the Kano model—customer satisfaction measured via five categories—can help you refresh personas.
Handling a security breach has UX implications. Three case studies of how Home Depot, Wendy’s, and Omni Hotels responded to such incidents show how to maintain and regain customer trust after a breach.
Turning a design into reality requires buy-in and crucial “soft people skills” that are necessary to influence others to implement your work.