Are you redesigning a data table for enterprise software? Suddenly you’re feeling overwhelmed. Possibly you’re looking at it wondering where to begin. Your designer eye is telling you this is a mess,…
Advantages and Disadvantages, Part 2 :: UXmatters
You Have Less Control Over the Technology Participants Use You’ll have less control than you might want over how the participants experience a prototype during usability testing. For remote UX research, participants…
Tips for Conducting Remote UX Research and Testing, Part 1 :: UXmatters
Understanding Technology’s Impacts on Remote UX Research and Testing Technical checks could take between 15 and 30 minutes, depending on whether you encounter any problems. But they’re worth doing to ensure that…
Designing a Wayfinding Experience for an Office Environment
Few things are more stressful than searching for a misplaced item, especially when time is pressing on. Extra minutes spent searching for a meeting room, kitchen, or a printer can lead to…
Delivering Meaning to Your Stakeholders :: UXmatters
Identifying Your Key, High-level Observation or Insight An observation is something researchers and stakeholders witnessed during a research session. … An insight is something you’ve learned from what you observed during your…
Using UX Research Repositories to Foster Organizations’ Customer Centricity :: UXmatters
Why Research Repositories Are So Popular Repositories help researchers keep up with the pace of fast-moving organizations by reducing the time they spend on manual, repetitive tasks and letting them focus on…
An Integral Part of UX Design :: UXmatters
Understanding Your Users Your designers are not your users. … Designers can bridge the gap with UX research—especially generative user research and usability testing. In the IT services and product industry, there…
The Era of UI Unification
Back in the early days of the Web, a lot of UI decisions were made on the fly, often having completely different sources of inspiration. There were few boundaries set: no pattern…
Quarantine UX: The “New Normal”
The digital revolution has been brewing for years, but the pandemic has hastened the change. According to Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella, “We’ve seen two years’ worth of digital transformation in two months.” …
Differentiating UX Strategy from Tactics :: UXmatters
UX professionals must … develop a deep understanding of both the business strategy and the product strategy that provide the basis for any UX design effort.—Pabini Gabriel-Petit “All UX professionals—whether they are…