User Experience

Breakthrough Products Need Breakthrough Collaboration (Book Review) [greybox] A review of The New ABCs of Research: Achieving Breakthrough Collaboration by Ben Shneiderman Book website Author on Twitter: […]

How the Other Half Live: UX Design in Brazil and New Zealand If you stopped what you’re doing right now and dug a hole down through the center of the earth, chances are you would come up next to a UX p […]

The State of UX: Voices from South America Although IT and internet adoption are widespread and strong in Latin America, our field has been slow to develop and it has yet to catch real traction […]

Cultural Preferences: Mexican-Americans on the Web For some time I have worked with multi-ethnic websites for immigrants. At one point, I needed to know about the web use characteristics of Americans […]

Website Localization: 3 Basic Principles You’ve heard everything I’m going to say before. Don’t stop reading though, because what I’m getting ready to tell you is all new informa […]

Rewards and Pains: User Research in Brazil On July 2013, Tim Brown, CEO of the world’s lead design company IDEO, wrote in the foreword of Design Transitions (Yee, Jefferies, and Tan) that the w […]

Measuring Perceptions: Meeting the Challenge of Perceived Quality Design sells a promise, but the real challenge in the process of design is ensuring that the design’s promise fits the user’s expectations. This is esp […]

<!–:en–>Understanding UI Design Guidelines (Book Review)<!–:–><!–:zh–>理解用户界面设计准则指南(书评)<!–:–><!–:KO–>UI 디자인 가이드라인 이해하기 (서평) <!–:–><!–:pt–>Compreendendo as Diretrizes de Projeto de Interface de Usuário (Crítica Literária)<!–:–><!–:ja–>UIデザインのガイドラインを理解する(書籍レビュー)<!–:–><!–:es–>Entendiendo las Directrices del Diseño de Interfaces de Usuario (Reseña de Libros)<!–:–> A review of Designing with the Mind in Mind: Simple Guide to Understanding User Interface Design Guideline by Jeff Johnson Morgan Kauffman, 2nd […]

Service Design: Internal Processes for Great Customer Experiences “You do what, again?” Service design. When I describe what I do for a living to someone at a party, I usually get some kind of head nodding around the […]

UX Maturity Model: From Usable to Delightful Interaction with software applications is an integral part of our lives today. The quality of interaction is influenced by multiple factors such as […]

A UX Career Framework: Driving Conversations Between Managers and Employees Um framework para a carreira de UX: conversas entre gerentes e funcionários Un estrategia para las carreras en UX: alentar las conversaciones entre gerentes y empleados As UX professionals we spend a great deal of time talking about design language, design tools, and technological developments and trends, but relatively […]

Designing Nonprofit Experiences: Building a UX Toolkit Designing nonprofit experiences can be quite different from designing retail or commercial experiences. Nonprofits aren’t selling a product or a s […]

Ask Less, Get More: The Behavioral Science of Limiting User Behavior Let’s pretend for a moment that you are a UX designer at a technology company building a brand new product. Things are going great; you’ve designed and […]

Choosing the Right Research Method: Easy as A, B, C It can be really hard to motivate people to do research, and even harder to persuade them to do the right research. In a world of scarce resources […]

Designing in the Browser: An Efficient Route to Responsive Design “It is not the strongest of the species that survive nor the most intelligent but the one most responsive to change.” —Charles Darwin. Charles Darwi […]

Designing for Peace of Mind: Almost Getting to Flow What do Twitter and the game Angry Birds have in common? Their users are intrinsically motivated to use them. This motivation is important for both apps […]

Being a UXer: It’s A Lot Like Being a Therapist Do you listen to people’s ideas all day long and carefully navigate the area between being too critical and ignoring potential issues? Do you take l […]

<!–:en–>Privacy Meets Technology: Two Views of “The Circle” (Book Review)<!–:–><!–:zh–>当隐私遭遇技术：关于“The Circle”《圆》的两种观点（书评）<!–:–><!–:KO–>개인 정보, 기술과 만나다: “The Circle”에 대한 두 가지 시선(서평)<!–:–><!–:pt–>A privacidade encontra a tecnologia: duas opiniões sobre o “The Circle” (Resenha)<!–:–><!–:ja–>プライバシーとテクノロジーの出会い：『The Circle』（サークル）の2つの視点（書籍レビュー）<!–:–><!–:es–>La privacidad en contacto con la tecnología: dos puntos de vista sobre “The Circle” (reseña de libro)<!–:–> Two Looks at The Circle by Dave Eggers Alfred Knopf, 2013 Privacy, A Casualty of Technology At the dawn of the current millennium, Sun Microsystem’s e […]

<!–:en–>Rubes Cartoon: Giraffe<!–:–><!–:zh–>Rubes 卡通：长颈鹿<!–:–><!–:KO–>Rubes 카툰: 기린<!–:–><!–:pt–>Quadrinho do Rubes: Girafa<!–:–><!–:ja–>Rubesコミック： キリン<!–:–><!–:es–>Historieta de Rubes: Jirafa<!–:–> Read more Rubes cartoons or download the new daily Rubes app at rubescartoons.com (c) 2013, Leigh Rubin, Syndicated Cartoonist [greybox] Giraffe A […]

<!–:en–>Editor’s Note: The Question of Motivation<!–:–><!–:zh–>编者注：有关动机的问题<!–:–><!–:KO–>편집자 주: 동기부여의 문제<!–:–><!–:pt–>Nota do editor: a questão da motivação <!–:–><!–:ja–>編集者手記：モチベーションに関する問い<!–:–><!–:es–>Nota del editor: La cuestión de la motivación<!–:–>There’s an apocryphal story about the famous director Alfred Hitchcock that goes to the heart of motivation. A young actor who was preparing for a s […]