User Research and Design, Usability engineering, usability testing, User Centered Design, HCI, User Interface, UI, Human Computer Interaction, Usability in India
I created the UX Bookmark a few years ago to separate the wheat from the chaff, here you will find only the best of articles, from journals, conferences and the web, that will help you evolve to being a more knowledgeable user experience practitioner.
From the feedback I have received, I could not be more glad in knowing how much it has helped many of you- at times when you have needed it most, or how you have used it to slowly build your knowledge in user experience or a particular area within it.
If you are a usability engineer, user researcher, human factors specialist, interaction designer or an information architect, then the UX Bookmark is a resource specially for you.
In Insightico, you first create a project and then add research artifacts (audio, video, images, spreadsheets, PDF’s and more) with the option to categorize them according to the different research activities you conduct (could be user interview audio files and transcripts, usability test videos, and such).
You can then add team members to the project and all begin adding insights to any of the artifacts (called sources in Insightico) contained. Insights can be added to a particular section of a document, image, audio or video file for all your team members to see, and tag them with relevant descriptors. Analyze the tags to discover relationships and patterns.
(Disclaimer: I work with PebbleRoad, the company that has built Insightico)
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This website of mine features a wonderful collection of quotes I have gathered over the years related to usability, interaction design, typography, etc.- the whole gamut of user experience. It lets you build upon your user experience wisdom through serendipity one quote at a time. UXQuotes
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Alan Siegel talks of how tax forms, credit agreements and understanding healthcare legislation can be so difficult to understand. He calls for a simple, sensible redesign, and plain English, to make legal paperwork intelligible to the rest of us. Simple language, as I have written about earlier, is something that needs to be used in such documents, if we want them to be easily and quickly understood by its readers.
About Alan Siegel
Siegel is the founder and chairman of brand consultancy Siegel+Gale, and is one of the leading authorities on business communication, and has spent decades trying to bring clarity to complex documents such as insurance policies, bank loans, mutual fund agreements and government communications.
A usability test is used to measure the usability of a part or whole of a product. It basically involves giving tasks that are commonly performed or intended to be performed on a part or whole of that product, to participants that are representative of the product’s users.
This is how I would define a usability test in brief to a layman.
About the small usability issues across your application that you think you can ignore, think of them in this way- one small crease on an ironed shirt is okay. But creases all over and you have an un-ironed shirt.
In the Google TechTalks video from 2006, Jen Fitzpatrick talks about the art and science behind Google’s design process and share examples of how design, usability and engineering come together at Google to create great products.
About Jen Fitzpatrick
Jen Patricks is an Engineering Director at Google, who at least was then managing Google’s user experience team. A founding member of Google’s UI team, Jen has also led the UI design, testing and implementation of numerous features and changes to the Google.com site.
She joined Google in June 1999 as a software engineer and has also served as Engineering Director for Google Adwords and Google’s Internal Systems engineering group.
Jen is a graduate of Stanford University where she received a B.S. in Symbolic Systems and an M.S. in Computer Science.
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Apala Lahiri Chavan is Vice President,Asia for HFI and manages offices in India, China, and Singapore, and a Contextual Innovation lab in Bangalore. She is an award-winning designer (International Audi Design Award) and has led teams spanning design, development, testing, and deployment of software products. In addition, she is ACM SIGCHI’s Vice Chair for local chapters.
