Date: Tuesday 11th August, 6.30pm – 10pm Location: iCrossing, Central Brighton, BN1 1ND Price: Free, but you must book a ticket on stubmatic This free event will be comprised of three parts – two talks and a demo! Carsten Schmitt … Continue reading
There are certain kinds of user research that require extreme video analysis, where you literally have to transcribe every utterance, gesture and movement, and a single hour of footage can take almost a day to analyse. You can imagine this … Continue reading
Jeff Atwood is one of those rare developers who has a real passion for UI design and User Experience. In his most recent post regarding Stack Overflow he says some interesting things about usability. The post has an incendiary title … Continue reading
The word “methodology” has a bit more gravitas than “method” doesn’t it. Sounds more sciency. Packs more punch in a research document. Well, that’s sort of true, if you don’t mind completely misusing the term. “Method” and “Methodology” mean completely … Continue reading
This is great! The full text of Marti A Hearst’s Search User Interfaces book is available entirely for free online. The RRP is £30 and the book isn’t even due to be publicly available until September 30, 2009. Caution: actual … Continue reading
Fever is a new feed-reader from Shaun Inman, the guy who created Mint (The self-hosted analytics app, not the finance site). The concept of Fever is pretty clever – it parses your RSS feeds and works out which articles are … Continue reading
Why do people do this? This email is the final step of an otherwise great marketing campaign. I’m not singling these guys out, it’s a common mistake that everyone seems to make. This email template relies entirely on images, but … Continue reading
Joan Doe is walking through the mall one day when she’s approached by someone with a clipboard. She has some free time, so she answers a few questions and gives them her email address. “Cool!”, she thinks to herself, ” … Continue reading
This did the rounds a few years ago, but it’s worth sharing again. it’s an interview with Dave Bradley who invented Ctrl-Alt-Delete. “…I was just trying to solve a development problem we had. Brand new hardware, brand new software, you’re … Continue reading
One of the most annoying things about being a UX consultant is the all NDAs you have to sign – you don’t get to talk to people about the research you’ve been doing or get to show people your deliverables. … Continue reading