User Experience

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 […]

<!–:en–>Designing Technologies for Marginalized Children<!–:–>When designing technologies for children, we are designing for a small minority of the world’s children, mainly those belonging to dominant social, e […]

<!–:en–>The New Reality – Coming Soon<!–:–>Our world is already filled with augmented reality views, though we may not realize it. Have you ever watched a football game replay with arrows and […]

<!–:en–>Editor's Note: Combining Children, Technology, and Usability<!–:–>Children live in a world where much of the technology they use daily was designed by adults to be used by other adults. And yet, this first group of […]

<!–:en–>UX Storytelling (Book Review)<!–:–> A review of Storytelling for User Experience: Crafting Stories for Better Design by Whitney Quesenbery & Kevin Brooks Rosenfeld Media, 2010 and UX […]

Let’s Talk UX: Communication in UX DesignFor UX professionals, communication is the key activity essential for successfully accomplishing many of the tasks in the collaborative domain of UX […]

Usability Script and Moderator’s Guide: 2 Tools or 1? Communicating with Study RespondentsOne of the tools most moderators use during usability tests is a usability script or moderator’s guide. The script is an essential aid to c […]

Usability and SEO: A Match Made in HeavenSearch engine optimization (SEO) is a technique for improving the ranking of a website in search engine results. A high ranking in the search results […]

What Does “Personal Computer” Mean? Communicating a New Paradigm Things have changed significantly since the advent of the personal computing paradigm. The idea of reserving an entire machine for just a single user […]

Writing Tutorials That Actually Help Users: Communication for Learning The documentation for a user interface often consists of a detailed listing of what each component of the interface does. Unfortunately, that […]

User-Generated Content and Future Challenges: New Kinds of CommunicationIt’s hard to believe that user-generated content (UGC) has only been a mainstream phenomenon since 2005. Even by Internet standards, its proliferation a […]

Online Social Networking and the New Indian Woman: Communication to Overcome Frustration There was a time in the Indian social setting when a working woman was looked down upon. It took numerous assiduous efforts of social reformers and […]

Social Skills for UX Consultants: Communication on the JobIn the last five years, the internal and external user experience (UX) consulting business has “crossed the chasm,” as Geoffrey Moore would say. As a c […]

[:en]The View From Here: An Interview with Elizabeth Rosenzweig, founder, World Usability Day[:] [:en] UX: How did this phenomenon known as World Usability Day get started? ER: (laughing) It really originated in baseball. My whole family has […]