User Experience

<!–:en–>Editor's Note: A Gourmet Meal of Content, Context, and Analysis Awaits You <!–:–>The worldwide economy is suffering greatly. Consequently, many corporate, government, educational, and organizational budgets have become diminished. […]

<!–:en–>Rubes Cartoon: We Fetched It <!–:–> Read more Rubes cartoons or download the new daily Rubes app at rubescartoons.com (c) 2008, Leigh Rubin, Syndicated Cartoonist [greybox]  We F […]

Forms on the Go: Usable Forms for the Mobile Web As recently as 2006, it was advisable to avoid forms altogether when designing a mobile website. Multi-step, link-driven selection list wizards (Figure […]

Making Forms Accessible: Accessible Forms Help all Users Monash University in Melbourne, Australia is committed to creating both usable and accessible websites and applications for both students and staff. To […]

What Do You Mean? How to Write Good Questions The work of a usability practitioner crosses many disciplines: from ergonomics to graphic design, from visual perception to web standards. The […]

Redesigning Centrelink Forms: A Case Study of Government Forms From time to time, organizations need to review all their forms, a task often performed by inexperienced staff with limited resources. This article is […]

Forms Management: What Forms Managers Think AboutElectronic forms need management just as much as paper forms do. Web forms may be the most common type of electronic form in use today, yet they may […]

The ELMER Experience: A Standard for Government Forms The Problem The challenges of web form design are probably about the most important and underrated issue in national IT and e-government policies. World […]

<!–:en–>The View From Here: Ballot Forms<!–:–>Ballots are one of the most important forms in a functioning democracy. Poorly designed ballots can confuse voters, causing Election Day problems and […]

<!–:en–>Formally Speaking: Two Guidebooks about Designing Forms<!–:–>   Forms that Work: Designing Web Forms for Usability By Caroline Jarrett & Gerry Gaffney Morgan Kaufman, 2009 Web Form Design By Luke […]

<!–:en–>Editors' Note: A Fascination with Forms <!–:–>A few years ago, when we needed a book on usable forms to recommend to a client, there was little available. Now there are several, two of which (one […]

<!–:en–>Editor's Note: Forms and Usability <!–:–>This issue of UX explores forms, one of the most ubiquitous but under-noticed areas of usability among technology-oriented interactive communication. […]

What Do We Know about Older Users? How Old is Old? Demographics suggest that a great number of people in the industrialized world are reaching ages that some agree constitutes “old age.” In some […]

Design for the Aging Brain (Commentary of Dr. Gazzaley's The Aging Brain) Over the past half century, much of product design has focused on youth. Electronic devices came with a host of options that excited young users but […]

[:en]Conducting Field Studies with Older Adults Lessons for Recruiting and Testing Older Users [:] [:en]Last winter, we ran a usability study in our lab with adults aged 75 and above. This age group is often classified as the “older-old” population, […]

Designing Spaces for Dementia: An Interview with Terry Carson Terry Carson, the owner of residential facilities for people with dementia and Alzheimer’s disease is interviewed by Nancy Frishberg about his twenty […]

Geographic Orientation & Disorientation: Getting Lost and Getting Found in Real and Information SpacesFrank Collier drove off early one Friday morning in July 1988. He had an appointment with his dentist near Birmingham, Alabama, about an hour’s drive […]

Web 2.0 for an Older Population: Exploring the Limits The personal computer is, in many ways, a rather inaptly named device. From the earliest days computers have been about sociality and community. The […]

Older Users Online: WAI Guidelines Address the Web Experiences of Older UsersAge matters with wine and cheese, and also with the user experience of older people on the Web. As we age, we experience increasing impairments that […]

<!–:en–>What's News: Helping Seniors Helps Everybody <!–:–>People in their mid-40s and younger sometimes get fed up with hearing about the “baby boomers” (the wave of people born in the period after World War II […]