Building Consensus Presenting something visual on which to base further discussions and activities is still one of the most effective ways to facilitate finding common ground. The most important outcome of a…
The Perils of Client Recruiting :: UXmatters
Your Client Might Not Recruit the Right People Define the types of participants you want them to recruit, based on their characteristics and behavior. You can then use your clients’ existing lists…
Writing Is Designing :: UXmatters
Understand Implications Thinking about the language intentionally means that you’re also thinking about its ethical implications…. If you design a digital product without focusing on the words, it’s easy to avoid thinking…
Artificial Intelligence and User Experience :: UXmatters
Our user-research practices and awareness of cognitive biases can sometimes be very useful in helping organizations to understand issues of bias and bring them to the surface within an organization.—Adrian Howard “We…
How to Bridge the Gap Between Your UX Design and Development Teams :: UXmatters
2. Invite developers and UX designers to the same sprint meetings. Someone from a different discipline can offer fresh eyes and help teammates find a different approach when they get stuck trying…
Mobile Dark Patterns :: UXmatters
Most apps and sites hide how they’ll use location information…. Sure, users can also enter a location manually, but there’s no provision for the automatic use of coarse location, so the result…
Artificial Intelligence, Supervised Learning, and User Experience :: UXmatters
All Data Are Not Equal If scientists do not give sufficient care to a dataset’s hygiene before plugging it into an ML system, the AI might never learn—or worse, could learn incorrectly….…
Molding Yourself into a Leader, Part 1 :: UXmatters
In enterprise environments in which User Experience is still relatively immature, it’s often necessary for UX designers to write user-interface copy as part of a design specification. Although this text might receive…
Making Sense of Tally Sheets :: UXmatters
Participant Annotations for Discussion-Guide Questions Gathering participant annotations onto a tally sheet is most useful for capturing responses to the key design questions a study needs to answer. Gathering participant annotations onto…
Book Review: Redesigning Leadership :: UXmatters
Technologist as Leader Clarity facilitates understanding. Transparency is a recurring theme we hear from our politicians and corporate leaders. However, Maeda advises that, while transparency is nice, clarity is better. Those leaders…