User Experience

About World Usability Day 2009: Designing for a Sustainable World World Usability Day (WUD) was founded in 2005 as a UPA initiative.  Each year, on the second Thursday of November, events are organized around the […]

Sustainable Design at Home Recently, my wife and I decided to redesign the kitchen in our twenty-five-year old home. We decided to explore green alternatives to save energy and […]

Sustainability is Interactive Often, when I speak with interaction designers and usability professionals, I hear the same question, “I work on websites and interfaces. What i […]

Xeriscaping: Sustainability in Practice I wonder whether what I’m doing at the moment is the greenest thing I can do? How do I make the best choices to be as sustainable as possible? And, a […]

Accidental Sustainability The idea is that good usability can help create a more sustainable world by creating products that use recycled components, work to insure a better […]

Coping Daily with Green Ethics In a world where Chevron Oil and the utility companies tell me to use less of their product, classic marketing has gone mad, and some challenges to my […]

The Green Machine: Going Green at Home Thanks to global awareness campaigns such as Al Gore’s An Inconvenient Truth, the problem of global warming and its worrisome threat is no longer in q […]

Experiencing Change: The New and the Old The Information and Communications Technology (ICT) age of the last thirty years has been hailed as changing the human condition and our course through […]

Sustainable Data Centers: The Dirt on Clean ComputingInformation Technology (IT) looks clean. Individually our laptops and mobile phones consume only small amounts of energy and there are no apparent […]

<!–:en–>What's News: Simplifying Web Design and Management<!–:–>Words like “easy” and “simple” are used repeatedly by companies marketing website content management systems (CMS) designed to make it possibl […]

<!–:en–>Editor's Note: Greening the User Experience, and Goodbye<!–:–>Achieving sustainability, reducing one’s carbon footprint, “going green,” whatever one might call it, has gone from being a peripheral concern suppo […]

<!–:en–>Rubes Cartoon: Save the Trees<!–:–> [greybox] Paper towel dispenser with “Save the Trees” printed on the towels.  [/greybox] Read more Rubes cartoons or download the new daily Rubes app at rubescartoons.com (c)2009, Leigh Rubin.  Syndicated Cartoonist

New Standards to Help Screen Readers Navigate Web Forms: Techniques to Improve Usability for All Introduction Web 2.0 entices web authors with dynamic capabilities, but these advances in performance and functionality have proven a barrier to a […]

Role Reversal: Testing for Ease of Learning and Recall Training users on a new software package can be very expensive and should be a consideration in software development. When users cannot be pulled from […]

Stepping In: An Outsider’s Guide to Crossing the Digital Divide India, Kenya, Brazil, Chile. Coffee growers, rural farmers, wine producers, village self-help groups, and rural schools. HCI researchers are used to […]

Model-driven Inquiry: A Streamlined Approach to Data Collection How do we know what users need? Arguably the best known, and possibly the most widely practiced approach, is field study using contextual inquiry, an […]

Information Graphics: An Eclectic Celebration Every decade, professionals interested in effective visual communication publish guidebooks for business people, computer and information-technology […]

User Interview Techniques: Guidelines for Obtaining Better ResultsInterviewing skills are the core of user research, but how do you know if you are a good interviewer? Are you getting the most from your time with […]

<!–:en–>The View from Here: Raising the Floor <!–:–>We all know that information and communication technologies are advancing at an ever-increasing rate and are rapidly being incorporated into every […]

<!–:en–>The Classy Classic: Designing the User Interface (Book Review) <!–:–> Designing the User Interface: Strategies for Effective Human-Computer Interaction, Fifth Edition By Ben Shneiderman and Catherine Plaisant, with […]