With an eye for brushing up on pertinent literature, I am trying to reread some key books from my small library. Some like George Lakoff's books are very valuable but so academic I wonder if I will ever get through...
Something I am thinking about today. Through-out grade school I was always taught to write notes on whatever I was reading and to rewrite any other notes as a means to comprehend the material I was studying. I think I...
Jan Chipchase is Principal Researcher at the Mobile HCI Group in Nokia Research. His personal insights can be found on Future Perfect, Jan’s wonderful photo-intensive weblog. As he says: “… if I do my job right you’ll be using it...
This is exactly what lead to my interest in user research and the formation of our user experience group at a former employer. The "value of user research is often to cut through the politics and convince stakeholders to make...
"Over the last decade, ‘user experience’ (UX) became a buzzword in the field of human – computer interaction (HCI) and interaction design. As technology matured, interactive products became not only more useful and usable, but also fashionable, fascinating things to...
"Planning is crucial if you want your user research efforts to be effective. You need to think about what information you need to gather, and why, before embarking on any research. Good planning, well communicated to the client or project,...
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