This issue’s theme of “Designing for Social Change” focuses on the challenge of UX design for constructive social change.
This issue addresses our understanding and insights into how children interact with technology and how usability professionals can include children in the design process.
This issue’s theme of “Communication” bring the experiences of contributors in several international settings to our global community of readers.
This issue of UX follows the most recent UPA International conference, which was held in Munich, Germany in May, 2010. One of the things about our field that I find so interesting is the amazing breadth of topics that we need to know about. Lucky for us, the field is also such an inclusive one—organizationally…
Say the word “accessibility” in a room full of usability professionals and you will get many reactions. For some it’s a cause. To others, it’s yet another requirement that has to be met. For many of the authors in this issue, it is simply part of usability. The ISO 9241-20 standard agrees, defining accessibility as…
This issue of User Experience brings with it a set of transitions.
As last issue’s readers learned, former editor-in-chief Aaron Marcus has stepped down and we have flattened the UPA Publications hierarchy by not replacing him—in part, because he’s irreplaceable.
As director of publications, I have accepted the challenge to integrate our UPA Publications portfolio, including UX.…
In this issue, we seek to integrate the worlds of UX and software development in order to create better products, services, and user experiences.
Letter: ELMER has been selected as a finalist to the European eGovernment Awards 2009 in Malmö, Sweden
Achieving sustainability, reducing one’s carbon footprint, “going green,” whatever one might call it, has gone from being a peripheral concern supported by a relative few—but dedicated—group of people, to a mainstream issue, talked, videoed, printed, blogged, and Twittered about among the masses on a daily basis…thanks in part to those earlier savants and prophets, but…
The worldwide economy is suffering greatly. Consequently, many corporate, government, educational, and organizational budgets have become diminished. That situation always affects new product development and, with it, the decisions to undertake a variety of usability and user-experience activities—from ethnographic observations, contextual and task analyses, to usability tests, remote testing, and many other usability evaluation and…