User Experience

Has the Jury Reached a Verdict? A Courtroom Analogy for UX Making the right decision doesn’t have to be a trial by fire. Let’s look outside of UX to a place where there is a long-established skill set and mod […]

Lost in Translation: Communicating the Subtleties of Design across BordersEarly in my design career, I walked into my first meeting with a new team as they held a videoconference with developers from an office in China. I was […]

Educational Games: Ten Design Tips for Immersive Learning Experiences Games have become the go-to technology for creating engaging and educational experiences. They have popped up online, in schools, in museums, at large […]

Collaborative Sessions: Combining Analogue and Digital Tools Teams often use collaborative methods such as brainstorming and affinity diagrams to gather ideas and organize information. Pen and paper are typically […]

Empathy: Defining, Realizing, and Facilitating Designers talk about empathy. A lot. But do you really know what they mean? Social psychologist Daniel Batson identifies eight different ways that […]

The Collaboration Success Wizard: How to Improve Your Long-Distance Projects Regardless of the kind of organization you are part of, it is increasingly common to work with others who are based at different physical locations. […]

<!–:en–>Redesigning Healthcare (Book Review)<!–:–><!–:zh–>重新设计医疗保健<!–:–><!–:KO–>의료 서비스 재설계<!–:–><!–:pt–>Reprojetar a assistência médica<!–:–><!–:ja–>ヘルスケアの再デザイン<!–:–><!–:es–>Rediseñar la atención médica<!–:–> A review of Design for Care: Innovating Healthcare Experience by Peter H. Jones Rosenfeld Media, 2013 If there is a “right” person to think about how […]

<!–:en–>UX Goes Global (Book Review)<!–:–><!–:zh–>我们很快都将成为全球化的 UX 从业者<!–:–><!–:KO–>머지 않아 모두가 글로벌 UX 디자이너들이 될 것입니다<!–:–><!–:pt–>Todos nós seremos em breve praticantes globais de experiência do usuário<!–:–><!–:ja–>私たちは皆、もうすぐグローバルUX実行者となる<!–:–><!–:es–>Pronto todos seremos usuarios globales de experiencia de usuario<!–:–> A review of two books Global UX: Design and Research in a Connected World by Whitney Quesenbery and Daniel Szuc Morgan Kauffman, 2011 and The Handbook […]

<!–:en–>A Curated Selection of Practical Tips and Advice (Book Review)<!–:–><!–:zh–>精选实用技巧和建议<!–:–><!–:KO–>선택된 실전 요령 및 조언<!–:–><!–:pt–>Uma seleção de dicas e conselhos práticos<!–:–><!–:ja–>実践的なヒントと助言に関する精選した抜粋<!–:–><!–:es–>Una selección de consejos prácticos<!–:–> A review of The Mobile Frontier: A Guide for Designing Mobile Experiences by Rachel Hinman Rosenfeld Media, 2012 The Mobile Frontier is at times […]

Editor's Note: Collaboration for Survival and CreativityWhile we were working on this issue, I came across a website that features a variety of different animal species. Each species’ photograph was a […]

From the Experts: The Past, Present, and Future of UX User experience is a field that constantly redefines itself. Over the course of my career, I’ve been called an information architect, an interaction d […]

<!–:en–>Rubes Cartoon: Pyramids<!–:–><!–:zh–>金字塔<!–:–><!–:KO–>피라미드<!–:–><!–:pt–>Pirâmides<!–:–><!–:ja–>ピラミッド<!–:–><!–:es–>Pirámides<!–:–> Read more Rubes cartoons or download the new daily Rubes app at rubescartoons.com (c) 2013, Leigh Rubin, Syndicated Cartoonist [greybox] Pyramid We […]

<!–:en–>What's News: Hey Good Lookin’ <!–:–> Those of us who have been frustrated for years by the world’s lack of focus on usability take heart: a web marketing campaign for a new brand of s […]

Mindful Design: What the UX World Can Learn from Yoga “Yoga will change your life.” I will never forget these words that my husband, who has practiced a tradition of meditation for twenty-five years, sai […]

Reboot: How and Why I Changed the Way I Work Every day before I leave work, I rinse out my coffee mug and my water bottle. I file any papers that I’m still using and recycle those I’m fin […]

Unconventional Opportunities for UX: The BRICS and Beyond While news stories often profile fast-growing parts of developing countries, these stories are exceptions. In reality, the pace of life in developing […]

Flipping the Bit: Reintroducing Children to Technology as a Creative Medium According to the 2010 U.S. Census, there are more than 74 million children in the United States and 79 percent of them have Internet access at home. […]

Using Your UX-pertise to Save the World: Pro Bono Work That Also Benefits You There are companies and organizations in our community that are struggling to improve life beyond the commercial sector. Most of them lack the […]

Evil by Design? How Interaction Design Can Lead Us into Temptation When you stop to think about it, the job of interaction designers is about persuading people to do something. We design juicy-looking buttons and place […]

MadLibs for Designers: Ideating Based on User-Generated Scenarios A commonly held belief among designers is that quality ideas come from having a large quantity of ideas, because generating wild and diverse ideas can […]