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Usability Testing Is Undermining UX Design

Posted by By Rob Cowie 28 October 2014Posted inDesign, Testing, Theory, UX
I’d be the first to admit that there are a lot of things that irritate me. These include, but are not limited to the following: people referring to a small,…
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Best Practices for Medical App Development Go Beyond Standard UX

Posted by By Rob Cowie 28 October 2014Posted inDesign, Linkedin, Testing, Theory, UX
Mobile healthcare app development poses a set of challenges very different from mainstream apps. Not only is security an area that requires considerable attention, compliance with regulatory standards is also…
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Getting closer to customers drives web success

Posted by By Rob Cowie 28 October 2014Posted inTesting, Theory, UX
Being successful today means being with the customer. The closer you are to the customer the more power and influence you have. I used to know an editor of a…
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Designing for Large Screen Smartphones

Posted by By Rob Cowie 28 October 2014Posted inDesign, UX
As smartphones continue to get larger but our hands don’t, what kinds of design solutions can ensure mobile interactions remain comfortable, quick, and easy on our thumbs? Here's a few…
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Why your clients don’t care about their users, and how you can make them

Posted by By Rob Cowie 28 October 2014Posted inDesign, UX
We have all been there haven’t we? The meeting where the client asks you to subscribe users to their newsletter without their permission. Or when they insist on adding an…
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Ideal UX Team Makeup: Specialists, Generalists, or Compartmentalists

Posted by By Rob Cowie 16 October 2014Posted inResources, Strategy, Theory, UX
When building a User Experience team, the same question comes up: How do you know what kind of UX professional to hire? Specialists are professionals who have the time, experience,…
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How Important is UX to Your Product’s Growth?

Posted by By Rob Cowie 16 October 2014Posted inTheory, UX
UserTesting’s own Hannah Alvarez recently posed a question over at GrowthHackers.com regarding the importance of UX within the larger framework of growth hacking, or more broadly its role in a…
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32 Mobile App Usability Resources

Posted by By Rob Cowie 13 October 2014Posted inResources
The reviews in the App Store and Google Play can be ruthless. If your app has a poor user experience and gets bad reviews early on, your chances at success…
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When to Use Which User-Experience Research Methods

Posted by By Rob Cowie 13 October 2014Posted inResources, Testing, Theory, UX
Summary: Modern day UX research methods answer a wide range of questions. To know when to use which method, each of 20 methods is mapped across 3 dimensions and over…
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UX Companion – How to Make Sense of all the UX Industry Jargon

Posted by By Rob Cowie 13 October 2014Posted inResources, Theory, UX
Have you ever sat in a meeting with professionals from a different field, who use so much jargon that they may as well be speaking Chinese? If you haven’t you…
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