More Dilbert on User Experience
It’s nice to see that Dilbert’s been taking on a UX focus lately… Step 1: Realisation Step 2: Confirmation Step 3: Response
Author Archives: Harry Brignull
Why conversion rate uplift percentages can be confusing
Amendment: this post has been edited for typos: Thanks Carlo! Unless you’re a mathematically-minded person, it’s easy to get muddled up when people talk about conversion rates and conversion rate “uplift”. Here’s a quick explanation: If you had 1000 users … Continue reading
UK Research Buyers Guide: theresearchbuyersguide.com
Theresearchbuyersguide.com looks like a potentially useful site for UX researchers: Though it’s it’s intended for buyers of generalist market research, there are some useful links on here, such as a list of viewing facilities in the UK (i.e. posh places … Continue reading
UX Brighton August Triple Bill: Designing for Persuasion, International Research, and Eye Tracking!
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
Open-Source Video Note Taking Utility from IBM
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 on Spit and Polish, Usability and Stack Overflow
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
Method vs Methodology.
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
Marti A Hearst’s “Search User Interfaces” book – available free online
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
A quick look at Shaun Inman’s Fever
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
Marketing emails: using images as progressive enhancements to improve clickthrough rates
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