Is the Internet hurting productivity?
You’d think that the massive growth of the Internet would bring with it a massive growth in productivity. But the opposite is happening. “A decade-long global decline in productivity growth…
UX Central Weekly #2
Lots of interesting things happening this week in the world of UX and digital. We start off with an excellent quote about designers from Mike Monteiro in his article Why…
How Button Placement Standards Reinforce User Habits
“It doesn’t matter where it’s placed as long as it’s there.” This is how many who don’t understand user experience think about buttons. In UX, every detail matters, especially button…
How To Use The System Usability Scale (SUS) To Evaluate The Usability Of Your Website
Is your website usable? If your job depends on getting a definite answer to this question, then you should start using the System Usability Scale. The System Usability Scale (SUS)…
Dropdowns Should be the UI of Last Resort
All too often mobile forms make use of dropdown menus for input when simpler or more appropriate controls would work better. Here's several alternatives to dropdowns to consider in your…
7 Secrets for enhancing UX with micro-interactions
Knowing that we all judge a book by its cover, smart designers create catchy and practical interfaces. Potential users may be hooked, but how do you reel them all the…
5 Things To Know About Likert Scales
You've seen them. You've answered them. It seems like everyone has an opinion about them. Here are five things to know about the famous Likert scale. The Likert scale was…
UX Central Weekly #1
Welcome to the first UX Central Weekly – a (hopefully) weekly roundup of the most interesting things happening in the User Experience and Digital worlds. The always insightful Gerry McGovern…
When Business Analysts, UX Analysts & Developers work together effectively
We are looking for possibilities through the lens of the user. Working in an organisation with a fairly mature Business Analysis competency, I am interested in the dynamic that exists…
Towards a new Information Architecture
There is a tsunami of data that is crashing onto the beaches of the civilized world. This is a tidal wave of unrelated, growing data formed in bits and bytes,…