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The marketing campaign for TriSpecs™ is focused on user experience as the key selling feature, however the website itself is not a great model of usability.

The marketing campaign for TriSpecs™ is focused on user experience as the key selling feature, however the website itself is not a great model of usability.

Introduction Web 2.0 entices web authors with dynamic capabilities, but these advances in performance and functionality have proven a barrier to a growing contingent of users. Many interactive web elements, including forms with dynamic updates and error validation, can be disorienting to users and inaccessible to blind people who use

When testing a software package, include traditional roles found in a pyramidal training model but also a reversed, “train the trainer” round.

“Bridging the Global Digital Divide” teams are looking at new interaction technologies and design practices for users whose lives could be transformed by advances in computing and communication.

Contextual design models can be developed through exploratory modeling, providing a potentially useful framework to guide and speed up the later modeling activities.

Provide form instructions on a separate web page and place a “Help” link at the beginning to help users who prefer or require “up front” instructions to complete the form.

Guidebooks on effective visual communication are frequently published for those who have not been exposed to information design and visualization, often obscuring similar publications of decades past.
An interview technique review worksheet emphasizes continual improvement and provides an easy way for team members to evaluate a user research interview session.
Raising the Floor is creating an open source set of tools to create free public access features built directly into information infrastructure, facilitating affordable assistive technologies.

A whole book on card sorting? This book is replete with solid advice, clearly written and illustrated, and well supported by case studies and examples.

User Experience Professionals Association (UXPA) International supports people who research, design, and evaluate the user experience (UX) of products and services.