Category: Usability

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. Read More

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. Read More

Responsive cereal http://edlea.com/blog/responsive-cereal/                                         UI vs. UX http://edlea.com/blog/product-ux-ui-cereal/ Read More

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 Read More

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 Read More

Developing a flexible, secure, integrated SCADA infrastructure to fully support the evolving smart grid in Amsterdam, 21st March 2013 YouTube Video of slides from talk http://youtu.be/9e5RNuqzBww Read More

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 Read More

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 Read More

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 Read More

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