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Ideal UX Team Makeup: Specialists, Generalists, or Compartmentalists

By Rob Cowie 16 October 2014Resources, 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,…

How Important is UX to Your Product’s Growth?

By Rob Cowie 16 October 2014Theory, 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…

When to Use Which User-Experience Research Methods

By Rob Cowie 13 October 2014Resources, 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…

UX Companion – How to Make Sense of all the UX Industry Jargon

By Rob Cowie 13 October 2014Resources, 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…

The Future of UX Leadership: Radical Transformation

By Rob Cowie 13 October 2014Theory, UX

This column is the first in a series that will offer insights on how to help companies progress from delivering mediocre user experiences, as is all too common, to producing…

The 4 Magic Questions To Ask Before You Design Anything

By Rob Cowie 13 October 2014Theory, UX

I’ll go so far as to say that if you don’t know the answers to these four questions before you design, then your design will be, at best, mediocre, and…

Lean UX – Running Workshops And Getting Results

By Rob Cowie 13 October 2014Theory, UX

User Experience, Design and Software Development rarely get along. Design wants to create gorgeous looking portfolio pieces, User Experience wants the pathways through the system to be crystal clear for…

Innovation Vs Tradition : What Does The User Really Want?

By Rob Cowie 13 October 2014Theory, UX

We here – you, me, that other guy reading this article – we follow technology. We are probably reading a few tech blogs. Probably we all tried a pre-release software…

How Can You Measure UX Without Observing Users?

By Rob Cowie 13 October 2014Testing, Theory, UX

The user puts the u in UX. What defines UX in general and usability in particular, is the observation of people interacting with products--software, hardware, and websites. For decades, UX…

The key difference between online and print publishing

By Rob Cowie 13 October 2014Design, Theory, UX

Vigorously managing what is already published is the critical difference between a professional online publishing culture and a traditional offline print culture. The Ebola factsheet page from the World Health…