Tag: Usability

Every dollar spent on UX brings in between $2 and $100 dollars in return. This is gained by spending on UX not making things look pretty, it’s not graphics its making the product, service or information system meet the business KPI’s and the customers expectations, desires and needs. Forrester Research finds that “implementing a focus Read More

Below is a simple guide to find out if you have users involved in your project. A person who is not part (employed or service team) of a contracted consultancy. A person who is not part (employed or service team) of a client company project team. A person who does not represent the primary targeted audience (based upon user screening protocols). A person who Read More

Agile User Stories come from UX I have been involved in Agile for a very long time, mainly because it uses methods from the human computer interaction scientific process (CHI/HCI). I’m surprise no one else has blogged about the use of CHI/HCI processes in Agile before, but though I should say something as I keep Read More

Definition of User Experience (UX) User experience (UX) is about how a person feels, appropriates, attributes and the emotions engendered when thinking about using a product, system or service. User experience highlights the experiential, affective, meaningful and valuable aspects of human interaction and ownership. It also includes a person’s perceptions (driven from a subject expert/specific Read More

2011/03/28 – Published I have just been confirmed as a Fellow of the British Computer Society.  Thanks to all my supporters. Additionally I have joined BCS ELITE Group (Effective Leadership in Information Technology) in order to progress the professional agenda of user experience. BCS ELITE Group   Read More

2011/03/07 – Published FAQ’s are no longer relevant FAQ’s are very much vested in intranet thinking, that assumes if users want help they work for us and know the terminology and have similar tasks / goals to other users on the internal net. Websites conversely support users from every experience of life, who while focused on Read More

2011/03/04 – Published UCD requirements gathering There are lots ways to elicit UCD requirements so I don’t intend on listing them all here, what I will note are some of the effective ways that I utilise. They can be described as structured, unstructured or a mixture of the two, but importantly the methods produce differing depth Read More

2011/02/18 – Published Contextual usability dramatically effects outcomes While any kind of user testing is better than none, usability testing out of context is like testing a car on water, it gives some basic information and not a lot more. If performance and use are important at all, then testing should take place in an environment standard Read More