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How to : Usability Test : Getting Design Teams Onboard
The best way to do usability studies is to do it yourself. By conducting your own quick and dirty usability studies, design teams can get feedback faster, easier, and more affordably than hiring an outside professional. How Can Design Teams Start Testing On Their Own? If you’ve never conducted a test, start right away. Try…
5 tips & tricks to improve your UI designs
Small and easy to put into practice tips to improve your designs. Creating beautiful, usable, and efficient UIs takes time, with many design revisions along the way. Making those constant tweaks to produce something that your clients, users, and yourself are truly happy with. I know. I’ve been there many times before myself. But what…
The usage lifcecycle
As users interact with your product or service, they proceed through a series of steps called the usage lifecycle. The usage lifecyle is a mapping of the user’s experience with your design. Like other lifecycles, the usage lifecycle has a beginning, middle, and an end, each of which are characterized by different behaviors and goals. Though they…
A 5-Step Process For Conducting User Research
Imagine that this is what you know about me: I am a college-educated male between the ages of 35 and 45. I own a MacBook Pro and an iPhone 5, on which I browse the Internet via the Google Chrome browser. I tweet and blog publicly, where you can discover that I like chocolate and…
UX trends in 2017
#1 Usability becomes a commodity Design patterns are still a thing — a big thing. More and more, designers can rely on robust and comprehensive interaction pattern libraries for solving common design use cases. Now that the basics are covered, where do we want to focus our efforts? You don’t need to reinvent the wheel when designing a…