Completing usability testing in a short amount of time is a challenge that consultancies and development teams often face. In the first part of a two-part series, Paul Nuschke describes how to cut time out of the preparation leading up to a study. Part two will discuss how to run the study and analyze the findings.
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Afshan Kirmani explains some fundamental principles that can help us design effective online forms.
Getting a Form’s Structure Right: Designing Usable Online Email Applications
Part 1
Audio content is becoming increasingly prevalent. How do you design it effectively? Jens Jacobsen combines information architecture, journalism, usability engineering, and interface design to resolve some of the issues that arise from introducing audio.
Information Architecture for Audio: Doing It Right
Where the seams of information and public space overlap and intersect, Elliott Malkin creates projects that span genres from religion to natural science. Malkin talks to us as a preview to his upcoming IDEA conference talk.
IDEA 2008: An Interview with Elliott Malkin
Investigating Invisibles
David Armano is a macro-interactive name in a micro-interaction world. As interactions get smaller and more focused, experiences become bigger and broader. David is here to shepherd the way to the promised land.
IDEA 2008: An Interview with David Armano
User Experience (UX) Week was held in San Francisco, CA from August 12 – 15. Boxes and Arrows, in co-operation with Adaptive Path, interviewed some of the great speakers for your design listening enjoyment.
User Experience Week
Conversations with Presenters at Adaptive Path's UX Week
We all need context to better understand how to react to environments. Andrew Hinton thinks deeply about how context pertains to a world where architecture is
not made of tangible objects. He shares some of these thoughts with Russ Unger.
IDEA 2008: An Interview with Andrew Hinton
Bill DeRouchey is fascinated with buttons and the history of interface design. He talks to us about how people might expand their sources of inspiration to include just about anything in their everyday lives.