Using the Core Model and Top Tasks to design better web navigation

12 years ago

The essence of the Core Model design process is that you focus primarily on the top tasks of your customers.…

Think Your App Is Beautiful? Not Without User Experience Design

12 years ago

Aspiring to beauty in our designs is admirable. But it doesn’t guarantee usability, nor is it a product or marketing…

The Right Way to Do Lean Research

12 years ago

Too many people just “do research” or “talk to customers” without having a plan for what they want to learn.…

Breaking up with the User in User Experience Strategy?

12 years ago

Last April, the UX leadership at my company, Slalom Consulting, gathered at an off-site meeting to get aligned on how…

Eye Tracking: What Is It For And When To Use It

12 years ago

Imagine a usability test in which John, the test participant, attempts to buy a bicycle. On the homepage John quickly…

The Xbox One and Usability

12 years ago

Microsoft’s Xbox One has been out and available to the public for about 10 months at this point and is…

What To Do When You Can’t Run A Usability Test

12 years ago

In an ideal world, users would be involved in every stage of product development, including requirements gathering, iterative prototype testing…

The Ethics of UX Research

12 years ago

As a UX researcher for a social media operation, Ute considers different interface designs that might allow users to make…

The role of content in self-service design

12 years ago

Quality content plays a critical role in self-service design. Often a small change in a link, heading or sentence, can…

Print is view, Web is do

12 years ago

How much of your organization’s online world is made up of dead zones and how much is do zones? A…