User Experience

<!–:en–>Creativity in Design and UX (Book Review)<!–:–><!–:zh–>设计创意与用户体验（书评）<!–:–><!–:KO–>설계와 UX에서의 창의성(서평)<!–:–><!–:pt–>Criatividade em Design e UX (Resenha)<!–:–><!–:ja–>デザインとUXにおける創造性（書籍レビュー）<!–:–><!–:es–>Creatividad en el diseño y la experiencia del usuario (reseña de libro)<!–:–> A review of Creative Confidence by Tom Kelley and David Kelley Crown Business, 2013 In their new book, Tom Kelley, the author of The Art of Innovation […]

[:en]Learner Centered Design (Book Review)[:zh]以学习者为中心的设计（书评）[:KO]학습자 중심의 설계(서평)[:pt]Projeto Centrado no Aprendizado (Resenha)[:ja]学習者を中心に据えたデザイン（書籍レビュー）[:es]Diseño centrado en el aprendizaje (reseña de libro)[:] [:en]A review of Interface Design for Learning: Design strategies for learning experiences by Dorian Peters New Riders, 2014 Many of today’s learning […]

Bridging the Content Gap: Ten Ways to Motivate People to Produce Good Web Content “People only say ‘Wow!’ once.” One of my former bosses would frequently say this to clients who obsessed over web design. Her point was not that design […]

A Career That Fits: Finding the Perfect Glass Slipper These are the kinds of questions my developer Erich asks me: “Do you feel like UX is your personal ‘discipline’ or do you feel like ‘research and des […]

Gaining Competitive Advantage: Rethinking “The Competition” What makes furniture store IKEA so successful? There is the great selection and low prices, but what about the store experience itself? IKEA understands […]

Better Page Takeover Ad Design: Finding the Sweet Spot In the complex ecosystem of online advertising, page takeover ads are one of the flagship advertising message delivery formats. Page takeover ads […]

Brainsketching: Collaborative Interaction Design In the eyes of today’s user experience practitioner, facilitating a simple, straight brainstorming session seems archaic. The metaphor is perhaps too a […]

Near Field Communications: How NFC Can Assist the Visually Impaired Have you ever cooked a meal in a microwave oven by simply tapping on your smartphone? The LG Light Wave DIOS oven does exactly this. The underlying […]

Users as Co-creators: Player-centric Game Design For many years the audience for digital games was limited to young males, and it was sufficient for the game designers’ mindset that a game felt p […]

[:en]More than Mere Transcription: Closed Captioning as an Artful Practice[:zh]绝不只是简单抄录： 巧妙运用字幕[:KO]단순한 기록 이상의 내용: 기교적 관행으로서의 자막기능[:pt]Mais que uma mera transcrição: a legenda como uma prática útil[:ja]単なるトランスクリプションを超えたもの： 巧みな作業としての字幕[:es]Más que sólo una transcripción: el subtitulado como práctica artística[:] [:en]It’s tempting to think of closed captioning as a rote, strictly objective task. Captioners copy down what people are saying, a task so easy, even a […]

Customer Councils: A Research Tool for Agile Development One of the biggest challenges of moving from a yearly release cycle to smaller and more frequent updates is gathering both timely and actionable user […]

<!–:en–>Editor's Note: UX as a Goal<!–:–><!–:zh–>以用户体验 (UX) 为目标<!–:–><!–:KO–>목표로서의 사용자 경험<!–:–><!–:pt–>A experiência do usuário como meta<!–:–><!–:ja–>ゴールとしてのUX<!–:–><!–:es–>La experiencia de usuario como objetivo<!–:–>Sex, drugs, and rock ’n roll—what else could a professional magazine want in an issue? And, this issue’s theme: “UX as a Goal.” Wow! You‘re not sure ab […]

Personalization Services: Creating Accessible Public Terminals It is increasingly difficult to ignore or avoid technology. In a “self-service” economy, the use of Public Digital Terminals (PDT) such as Automated Tel […]

<!–:en–>Seeing is Believing (Book Review)<!–:–><!–:zh–>眼见为实（书评）<!–:–><!–:KO–>백문이 불여일견(서평)<!–:–><!–:pt–>Ver para crer (Resenha)<!–:–><!–:ja–>百聞は一見にしかず（書籍レビュー）<!–:–><!–:es–>Ver para creer (reseña de libro)<!–:–> A review of Eye Tracking the User Experience – A Practical Guide to Research By Aga Bojko Rosenfeld Media, 2013 I used to consider eye tracking a bit of […]

<!–:en–>Making the Web Accessible to All (Book Review)<!–:–><!–:zh–>让网络对全民可达 <!–:–><!–:KO–>모든 사람이 웹에 접속할 수 있도록 만들기 <!–:–><!–:pt–>Tornar a Internet acessível a todos <!–:–><!–:ja–>すべての人にアクセシブルなウェブサイト作り <!–:–><!–:es–>Una web accesible para todos <!–:–> A review of A Web for Everyone: Designing Accessible User Experiences by Sarah Horton and Whitney Quesenbery Rosenfeld Media, 2014 What if everyone […]

<!–:en–>Rubes Cartoon: Snowman<!–:–><!–:zh–>Rubes 卡通： 雪人<!–:–><!–:KO–>Rubes 카툰: 눈사람<!–:–><!–:pt–>Quadrinho do Rubes: homem de neve<!–:–><!–:ja–>Rubesコミック： 雪だるま<!–:–><!–:es–>Historieta de Rubes: muñeco de nieve<!–:–> Read more Rubes cartoons or download the new daily Rubes app at rubescartoons.com (c) 2013, Leigh Rubin, Syndicated Cartoonist [greybox] Snowman Two […]

<!–:en–>Superphone to the Rescue!<!–:–> With the growing use of cell phones by children, UK-based Mtrack Services Ltd. is developing a suite of products that can be used easily by children and […]

The View from the Knowledge Bridge: Navigating Mergers and Mash-ups What happens when people from two different disciplines get together to try to produce a third thing? Sometimes they need a knowledge bridge. During a […]

Collaboration with the Front Line: Designing for Support When my team set out to design a chat feature to assist DIRECTV technical support staff as they worked to troubleshoot technical problems with […]

Videoconferencing: Overcoming the Tyranny of Distance Conventional wisdom and research studies suggest that having team members work together in the same place is a significant factor in team success. […]