User Experience

<!–:en–>What's News: Automating Baggage Handling <!–:–> Airport baggage handling has been on my mind since a recent trip from New York to Edmonton, Canada during which my baggage was lost. It finally showed […]

<!–:en–>Book Review: Do’s and Don’ts of Information Graphics<!–:–> A review of The Wall Street Journal Guide to Information Graphics: The Do’s and Don’ts of Presenting Data, Facts, and Figures By Dona M. Won […]

<!–:en–>Editor's Note: Communicating the Usability Message Around the World <!–:–>November 11, 2010, the sixth annual World Usability Day, is the topic for this special issue of UX Magazine, and brings the theme of “Communication” to […]

More than Just Eye Candy: Top Ten Misconceptions about Eye Tracking Eye tracking is no longer a novel addition to the user experience (UX) research toolbox, used by only a few specialists. As more UX professionals […]

Touch Me! Reinventing a Business Application for the Touchscreen How do you take a physical keyboard/mouse-based business application and design it specifically for touch interaction? Your starting point is a set of […]

Taking Usability into the Trenches: Importance of Ethnographic Research and Field TestingThere are significant methodological and philosophical differences between ethnography and laboratory-based processes in the product development cycle. […]

Engaging Teams with Rich Reporting: Recipe for a Research Findings Expo Does this sound familiar? You plan and execute the perfect research study. You gain insights that have huge impact for the product. The research […]

Around the Globe: Lab Research in the United States and EuropeThirty years ago in the United States, the business of collecting consumer-based research data was typified by a housewife recruiting members of a local […]

Solving Interaction and Design for All: Tackling UX Challenges with Accessibility InsightsJim Thatcher, co-author of Web Accessibility: Web Standards and Regulatory Compliance and a noted accessibility expert, has a great way to think about […]

Integrating Usability and Accessibility: Things Every UX Professional Should KnowIn many companies, usability and accessibility are unnecessarily treated as separate, unrelated disciplines. Not appreciating the commonalities between […]

<!–:en–>Field Research: Another View<!–:–>In marketing research vernacular, my company is in the business of “fielding” research—especially research that requires face-to-face inter […]

Shh. Listen First! Social Networking, Wikis, and User Experience For user research we now have tools at our disposal like never before. These tools are social media sites where you can collect and aggregate data, even […]

<!–:en–>Shaker Design: Out of this World (Book Review)<!–:–> A review of Shaker Design: Out of This World Edited by Jean M. Burks The Shakers: Hands to Work, Hearts to God by Amy Stechler Burns and Ken Burns The […]

<!–:en–>UXPA International Conference: Moving UX Toward the Future<!–:–>This issue of UX follows the most recent UPA International conference, which was held in Munich, Germany in May, 2010. One of the things about our field […]

<!–:en–>What's News: No More Goofy Glasses<!–:–>The technology needed to make three-dimensional (3-D) movies has been around since the late 1890s, and there have been waves of enthusiasm for it in the […]

<!–:en–>Rubes Cartoon: False Alarm Clock<!–:–> Read more Rubes cartoons or download the new daily Rubes app at rubescartoons.com (c) 2010, Leigh Rubin, Syndicated Cartoonist [greybox] False […]

ICT and People with Cognitive Disabilities: Variations in Assistive TechnologyWhen Jane (not her real name) was in her fifties, the supply of oxygen to the area of her brain responsible for language processing was interrupted. The […]

Design to Read: Guidelines for People Who Do Not Read Easily <!–:–> Many issues cause people to have problems reading, including: Physical problems (vision, motor control, and more) Cognitive problems (aphasia due to […]

Universal Life: Multi-User Virtual Environments for People with DisabilitiesFor many people, the first mention of the virtual world’s online community Second Life (www.secondlife.com) usually brings to mind game players living v […]

Accessible, Private, and Independent Voting: The Prime III Voting SystemThe Help America Vote Act (HAVA) was passed in 2002 as a response to some of the issues that arose during the 2000 United States presidential election. […]