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Designing for Mobile…

Unexpected Career Turn Leads to CUA

by Sheldon Kreger

“I’m working with a team of…

The current official City of Los Angeles Website was designed in 1995 and revised in 1998 to be more service-oriented with the creation of 3-1-1 Call Center and Citywide Services Directory. Since then even though the city had used it to disseminate information and provide online services it didn’t update it to…

Weathermob is a niche social networking service for sharing information about local weather, much asInstagram is a service for sharing pictures. It lets you share…

This paper HFI white paper by April McGee looks at the trends and challenges facing UX designers who are working in the financial sector.

In this conversation, April talks about the problems facing financial institutions as they try to design a user experience that will satisfy both customers and corporate goals.

Download here:

http://www.humanfactors.com/financialUX.asp

Never Stop Improving by Sheldon Kruger

Vipin Maheshwary

Lead Information Architect at Lowe's

 

The best web developers did not gain their skills on accident. Just like any kind of art or technical job, it takes years of work, dedication, and…

Yesterday’s tweet from Chris Dixon, a well known investor and founder of Hunch, caught our eye:

In the past few years people have started paying an insane amount of attention to “great design and usability of products." Why is that?…

It's clear that the strongest growth in the global economy in the coming years will take place in the BRIC countries. While the acronym originally stood for the emerging economies of Brazil, Russia, India and China, it now includes other industrialized countries such as Mexico, Turkey, South Africa, Thailand, Vietnam and others.

For Western companies to be successful in conducting online trade in the BRIC nations, it's essential that they're aware of these countries’ unique cultures…

Let's explore a recent job requirement for usability folks that may affect you.

From Flickr.com (seeking Sr. Product Manager):

Build a strategy and product requirements for Flickr features focused on the core photo sharing experience. Partner with user…

The user experience field dates back to World War II and standing on the subsequent three generations of experience we should be able to avoid most meltdowns. We can.  But it doesn’t always happen.

And I ‘d like to share with you 5 meltdown stories and how and how you can avoid them.

LETS TALK ABOUT DESIGN

I was meeting with an…

Many accomplished Internet professionals today have had successful careers unfold as time has passed. While many individuals are satisfied with their current levels of skill, the best are those who are pushing their knowledge to new heights.

That's just one of the reasons why Dave Ade – our CUA of the Month – sought his certification with HFI. Although Dave had extensive experience in human factors before his…

.NET Magazine, November 8th, 2011

As numerous rumours have cropped up around a Facebook Phone, UX designer Sachendra Yadav explains how it could create a mobile user experience tailored towards social…

By Elisabeth Hubert

I’ve mentioned several times before how I have the opportunity to attend many UX and technology events (mostly because I live in NYC and am a consultant, but also because I try my hardest take advantage of these situations). I’ve also mentioned before that I got to attend this year’s NY Internet Week (see …

We had some fun on World Usability Day by asking our twitter followers to tweet us their favorite usability quotes. @denise2424 deserves a special mention and a follow for sending us 9 quotes!

The tweets are below and don't forget to follow  @humanfactors and all the people below!

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Essay topic:

Your worst User Experience meltdown and how it could have been avoided.

The Winner

• Anindita Sundaram, Senior Usability Analyst, Wipro Limited…
  
  

Recent developments around near field communication (NFC) have the blogoshpere buzzing. The top three mobile platforms, …

Nowadays, content must be developed to be viewed and interacted with across a range of screen sizes, from smartphones to the widest flat-screens. With devices becoming increasingly abundant in…

Pulse is a news reader that aggregates feeds from various sources using RSS and presents them in an attractive interface. I’ve been using RSS readers for a while and at a first glance Pulse seemed like a great leg up from the existing…