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April 19, 2004 Reviews / User Centered

Observing the User Experience: A Practitioner’s Guide to User Research

With all the attention to usability over the last five years or so and the wonderful swelling of information-architecture-related books just since 2001, you would think we would have enough methods and advice to keep our projects in perfect tack. But so many of these resources, excellent though they are, tend to be more about how to pilot the ship than how to find that all-important star and keep it in sight.

April 7, 2004 Findability / Process and Methods

Card Sorting: A Definitive Guide

Posted by Donna Spencer

Card sorting is a simple user-centered technique for obtaining insight into the structure of a site. But is it really so simple? This definitive guide to card sorting includes detailed instructions on how to execute and analyze a sort, plus helpful hints to improve your sorts. It is the first in a series of articles about card sorting.

February 25, 2004 Interactivity / Interfaces

Wizards and Guides

Posted by Bob Baxley

In part one of this article the discussion was one of views, forms, and the manner in which they could be combined into a task structure known as a hub. This installment expands on those themes by exploring two other types of task structures commonly employed in web applications–wizards and guides.

November 24, 2003 Interfaces / Intranets and Internal Tool Design / Visual and Visible

Executive Dashboards

Posted by Alex Kirtland

Contrary to first impression, an “executive dashboard” is not found in a CIO’s car. Rather, an executive dashboard, also known as a manager dashboard, executive cockpit, or digital cockpit, is a child of what in the 1980s was referred to as the Executive Information System (EIS).

November 10, 2003 Business Design / Process and Methods / User Centered / Workplace and Career

Designing Customer-Centered Organizations

Posted by John Zapolski

Even with the present downturn in the economy, more companies, from new media to established banks, have larger usability and design teams than ever before. Should we be content that we have come so far?