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October 3, 2017 Discovery, Research, and Testing / Interactivity

How Do You Gauge the Success of a VR Experience?

Stepping into an artificial world is an exceptional experience, but just how do you gauge the success of a virtual reality (VR) experience? Well, there are many different methods to gauge success, and each method gives different results. VR is used in a variety of industries—primarily in gaming—but it has been used for informative 360-degree videos and tours of buildings. Despite the different purposes, the success of these experiences can be gauged using the same methods. Within this article, we

November 15, 2016 Interactivity / Interfaces

Five Strategies for Infusing VR Design with Empathy

Posted by Shanon Marks

The desert was frigid and the sun was just peeking over the mountains when we arrived at the Mojave Air & Space Port. A full-scale rocket prototype at the end of a long driveway marked the spaceport’s entrance. I was just a walk away from realizing a small part of a big dream: being part of space exploration. Space travel and participation in the space economy are pretty much impossible for all but the most elite scientists, astronauts, and billionaires.

November 13, 2012 Design Principles / Foundational Thinking / Interactivity

User Experience Go Away

Posted by Dave Malouf

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 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

April 20, 2011 Design Principles / Interactivity / Search and Metadata / User Centered

Novices Orienteer, Experts Teleport

Posted by Tyler Tate

Expertise significantly impacts how we seek information online. Tyler Tate explores how the differences between novices and experts help us design better search interfaces for both groups of users.