We’ll be looking at a lot of UX issues here on the UX Daily over the coming months and more importantly we’ll be looking at how to fix them too. We start today with 5 bugbears that really ought to be incredibly easy to eliminate.I Don’t Like SpidersSeriously, I hate spiders. I am an arachnophobe ext
There’s no denying that as a species, we are incredibly social beings. We are at our best when in groups that we feel comfortable with and at our worst when we see those around us as “different” in some way.We talk, we smile, we touch, and we are remarkably aware of how the people around us feel tha
In everything we do, we are bound by our previous experiences. We make judgements on the basis of our interactions and experiences with the world. Someone catching ball positions themselves according to the environmental information and their understanding of how objects behave under certain conditi
Today, let's take a look at a method that allows you to reach the people who simply won’t read anything and to capture the attention of people in a very interesting way.Video CommunicationThe good news about using video in projects is that it no longer requires a huge investment in equipment. You ca
If there’s a management buzzword of the moment; it’s strategy. I actually had an interview once where a clueless director asked; “yes, but what strategy is that?” over and over again. I’d mapped out the strategy but it had become very clear through the course of the conversation that the director ha
There are a plethora of awesome tools that you can use in UX design projects but by far the most popular and one of the most useful is the user persona. In her work, Personas, Lene Nielsen describes four perspectives that your user personas can take to ensure that they add the most value to your UX
It’s often all too easy to forget that computing is a relatively new discipline. Computers are such an incredibly powerful part of our lives now that they are taken nearly for granted. Technology is with us from the moment we wake up (our alarm clock), when we go out the door (keycard systems etc.),
Did you know that some of the most dramatic design shifts are brought about by users of products? In fact, in many instances, such as open source software, users are often able to bring about huge levels of change and are willing and freely able to share this with the larger community.It was almost
The user experience for your customers often doesn’t start when they arrive at your web page or when they first open your shiny application on their smartphone or tablet; it starts the very first time they encounter your brand. The “awareness” phase as marketers call it. This is the moment when a po
The UX designer is often focused on the world outside of their company and that’s, ideally, how it should be. Yet, all too often organizations are frustrating places to work. The company culture impedes us rather than supports us. The projects we work on are badly defined. The objectives we’re given
Developing digital products is expensive. Launching your first digital product is fraught with worries and tension. If you’re sinking your life savings into your product when is the right time to launch? And what should you consider to try and maximize the UX and thus the potential returns on your i
On a rating scale of 1-10 how ethical do you think you are? 1 is completely unethical, and 10 is 100% ethical. This is an important question because research shows that most of believe we act ethically all the time but in reality most of us let our standards slip at some point or another. In fact we
Hey! Wait a minute! This is a UX forum; what has ethnography got to do with design at all? That’s a fair question and if you give us just a few seconds we’ll walk you through that too. Ethnography is a funny discipline and one that many of us simply don’t get that much insight into during our academ
Welcome back to some great UX tips and tricks to get your project's UX practices on key!Pre-Made Palettes RockAuthor/Copyright holder: Amber Case. Copyright terms and licence: CC BY-NC 2.0Of course you’re going to want to customize the look and feel of your website. One of the easiest ways to do tha
If you’re a UX designer there’s a good chance that sooner or later; you’re going to find yourself working in-house for a client. This can be a wonderful chance to develop the soft and hard skills of consulting but without careful attention to your approach; it can leave you alone and frustrated too.
Online selling has become one of the most powerful ways to make money in the modern world. However, sadly, there’s a ton of bad information out there that might be hurting your UX and your conversion rates. So let’s take a quick look at some of the worst offenders:We Need Traffic!Yes, you do need tr
This is the third part of our series on awesome UX practices and we hope you enjoyed our previous instalments. Today we’re going to take a look at some tips that should help with your user research:Test Ideas EarlyYou don’t have to have so much as a sketch to test an idea with your user base. Go on
There is no greater menace in corporate life than the guy at the top of the food chain. As many a UX design team have learned; it doesn’t matter how good your research is or how much you’ve spent on it – design decisions that don’t meet with the boss’s approval, don’t get implemented. Every web des
This is the last in our UX tools series this week; if you think you’ve missed any of the series – they’ll be permanently available under the UX Daily tab of our website. Today we’re going to look at tools that just didn’t fit into any of the other categories but might still help when you run that al
UX professionals need no convincing of the need for their work but many CEOs and board-level executives still need persuading. So how can you make the case? Let’s take a look at three reasons that your business should invest in UX:UX Saves MoneyDevelopers aren’t cheap. In fact they’re often the high
