Designing social networking systems which meet the needs of current seniors will enable them to use these systems to improve their quality of life.
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Focusing on accessibility objectives can help surface UX issues go beyond “accidental benefits” and improve a product or site’s overall usability through accessibility insights.
The Conference Accessibility Guide of the Society for Technical Communication is a source of information for conference attendees with accessibility issues.
Usability professionals should lead the implementation of the dispositions of the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities relative to accessibility and universal design.
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.
Agile software development is adaptive rather than predictive and people-oriented rather than process-oriented. Several activities at UPA 2009 discussed shared experiences of working in Agile environments.
A workshop at UPA 2009 continued previous discussions on Agile and user-centered design. Workshop participants exchanged best practices, success factors, challenges, and solutions.
UX professionals should start an outreach program to convince executives who make IT purchasing decisions that user experience knowledge can impact their business.
A well-documented and researched usability maturity assessment, addressing different organizational viewpoints, is a good first step in improving usability capability.
Instead of attempting to convert your organization to the language of UCD, communicate by incorporating the terms of product managers and developers into your team.