In this case study, the author discusses how she worked with her team to integrate research into an Agile development process. The resulting changes helped the team better respond to user needs by incorporating research throughout the sprint cycle.
Seasoned user researchers share tips on starting, iterating, and scaling lean research methods to adapt user experience research to a fast-moving Agile development process.
A hands-on method for training people new to research, or those wanting a refresher how to facilitate sessions with challenging participants.
By following a few simple guidelines, you can create surveys that are more usable for your participants and will generate more useful data for you.
Through Mechanical Turk, user experience researchers can conduct quick, scalable, and budget-friendly studies, while testing a product’s accessibility and suitability for international audiences.
Understanding how IoT technologies impact everyone in the household is key to designing intuitive, compelling experiences.
Nielsen’s heuristic evaluation is one of the standard usability assessment tools outside of actual testing, but it has failed to adapt to the changing ecosystem of design.
Designing global research requires being sensitive to cultural differences. Tokyo-based researchers, who often partner with international clients, share tips on conducting UX studies in Japan.
A review of From Tool to Partner: The Evolution of Human-Computer Interaction by Jonathan Grudin.
A review of Doorbells, Danger, and Dead Batteries: User Research War Stories by Steve Portigal.