Thank you to everyone who attended our (Karl Smith and Thom Heslop) talk at SXSW, it’s the start of a long road into a really complex and contextual problem. But being silent in the crowd as the King walks by with no clothes on is not an option, peoples lives, futures and prosperity is at
Mis-selling of design as UX is the problem I keep meeting people who say they do UX but don’t, they are designers and there is nothing wrong with taking a design approach to digital, process or product development projects. The problem comes in the mis-selling of design as UX, as the results are dramatically different.
This new role has come about because of the constant issues around User Experience and Customer Experience, which are often now combine as Experience Consultancy. This has meant that UX strategy does not make much sense anymore, so in my current role I am adopting Xstrategy consultants for our team.
So now you have an understanding of the candidates process, now some basic questions. 1. How did you get involved in usability? 1. Notes: User Experience is the implementation part of usability, UX focuses the project on the target audience expected experiences, it tests the business requirements against this audience to see if there is
The world of finance and wealth provides unique problems for the UCD UX consultant, this short session will describe some of them, how to circumvent them and how UCD UX can make a critical difference to the project’s success. Missing a couple of slides. YouTube Video of Slides: http://youtu.be/EJ3GiWoSFjk I will publish the video of
It’s really time to give away some of secrets about how to interview UX people without breaching NDA’s and opening recruitment agency staff and clients to litigation. First an easy one, if someone offers to show a UX portfolio don’t even interview them! Why? well if it’s of real work it’s a breach of contract, if it’s
A great deal of effort is being spent on customer experience and user experience that misses the point, experience is about desire, not process or fulfilment. Desire drives behaviour Thomas Hobbes (1588–1679) proposed the concept of psychological hedonism, which asserts that the “fundamental motivation of all human action is the desire for pleasure”. Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (1588–1679) claimed that “self-consciousness
Philosophy of UX User experience is about making people’s lives better. A persons experience is based in their mind and their emotions and can be established by both interaction and reflective (upon biographical experience) inputs. In UX we define inputs in digital or real world frameworks which enable the creation of solutions that have meaningful