User Research
Personae (or personas if you prefer) are an important part of a user centered design process, and one of the key ways in which usability experts can communicate their findings. I’m going to look at how to make a persona, and what the advantages are to you, and the design team How to make a…
read moreLast month, the UX Brighton Book Club read Selling Usability, a new book by John Rhodes that claims to reveal the secrets to infiltrating usability and UX practises into your workplace. Having not finished the book by the time of the meeting, I missed what the UX Brighton people thought of Selling Usability, however I’m…
read moreWelcome to 2010, hope everyone had a great holiday. Straight back onto UX issues - For my HCI Coursework, I'm designing a new product, with a focus on evaluating the user requirements - To do this, I've made a survey (keeping in mind the issues I raised on
read moreAs you may have noticed, I like my iPhone. But the iPhone is not just for
read moreWithin our HCI classes, we have started reviewing the UX of an upcoming multi-platform game from a prominent client, and are performing an expert review on it. An expert review, as opposed to a user-based study, involves having usability experts play the game themselves, and uses tools and their expertise to find faults. This is…
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