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User Experience Go Away

There is no UX for us That’s right! I said it. For us (designers, information architects, interaction designers, usability professionals, HCI researchers, visual designers, architects, content strategists, writers, industrial designers, interactive designers, etc.) the term user experience design (UX) is useless. It is such an over generalized term that you can never tell if someone is using it to mean something specific, as in UX = IxD/IA/UI#, or to mean something overarching all design efforts. In current usage, unfortunately, it’s

November 13, 2012 From the Editors / Professionalism

Not Dead Yet

Posted by Christina Wodtke

When Boxes and Arrows was founded a little over ten years ago, there was nothing quite like it online. There were peer-reviewed journals, and basic how-to articles. A List Apart was much more concerned with the CSS behind the interface back then, and UX Matters, Johnny Holland and Smashing Magazine were not even a twinkle in their creators’ eyes. So a bunch of scrappy volunteers gathered together and pushed to get the stories we wanted to read online. We were struggling

November 13, 2012 Foundational Thinking / Interactivity / Professionalism / Workplace and Career

Whither “User Experience Design”?

Posted by Jonathan Korman

Like a lot of folks, I find the term “user experience design” awkward and unsatisfying, at once vague and grandiose, and not accurately descriptive of what I do. Too often it seems like a term untethered, in search of something — anything — we might use it to name. And yet I often call myself a UX designer, and have done for the last few years, because at the moment it seems to communicate what I do more effectively to

August 21, 2012 Deliverables / Process and Methods

Designing Screens Using Cores and Paths

Posted by Jim Kalbach and Karen Lindemann

If you can place your core offering firmly at the center of your design, then all other elements in the site help both the users and the business reach their goals.

Kalbach and Lindemann show how the Core+Paths method keeps the design focused on your goals.

June 18, 2012 Foundational Thinking / Learning From Others / Workplace and Career

The Past and Future of Experience Design

Posted by Nathan Shedroff

Once there was a big debate on: Is experience design about online and mobile interfaces or is it something more?

Ten years later, not only is it part of our professional language, designers are exploring its potential, learning from everything from science fiction to behavioral psychology.