The growing need for UX practitioners is driving academic institutions and industry to find innovative ways to blend research, professionalization, and teaching to inspire and train people to enter the workplace.
Using tweets to understand what a geographical neighborhood is like shows both the promise and some of the limitations of big data analysis.
A review of “Presumptive Design: Design Provocations for Innovation” by Leo Frishberg and Charles Lambdin.
Help people be, do, feel, and look better to create products that are designed to win both the hearts and minds of their customers
When users’ expertise connects with designers’ solution expertise, new products often click. Platforms like LINE and social games like Pokémon Go show the power of connected fan communities for innovation.
Product design often focuses on incremental innovation—new features and standard metrics. To create products with a deep emotional connection, we must consider not only functionality, but also symbolic meaning.
The ten rules and the tetrahedron of innovation are tools to collaborate and develop designs and products that people want to use and embrace every day.
A review of The New ABCs of Research: Achieving Breakthrough Collaboration by Ben Shneiderman. A fresh look at how teams and innovation work together.
A review of 101 Design Methods: A Structured Approach for Driving Innovation in Your Organization by Vijay Kumar. A guidebook about innovation and design thinking techniques.
Doctors, administrators, and IT staff in a hospital often have different views of technology. User experience professionals need to be aware of these differences when designing medical systems.