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Design Smackdown: Prepare to be Judged
In a recent article from The Daily Egg, Crazy Egg’s blog, 13 experts wrote a short critique of the PRWeb home page. This piqued my interest. The idea of an expert review / critique
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5 Easy Ways to Recruit Website User Testers
There’s an elephant in the room and I think it’s time we talked about it. On this site, and out of the mouths of UX professionals everywhere come forth the platitudes about how kick
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Looking Back, Again: 10 More Key Usability Concepts: Part 2
You’ve just landed yourself in the middle of a list article! Today we’re counting down the Top 5 key usability concepts that we’ve learned in the last four and a half months. If you’re
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Looking Back, Again: 10 More Key Usability Concepts: Part 1
If you just rode in here from a link on Twitter or Facebook or from some other far flung place from the Internet Universe you must wonder what all of this “Looking Back, Again”
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BUX Podcast #39: 10 (More) Key Usability Concepts
At the end of 2011, we took a week and looked back at 10 Key Usability Concepts. It had its own podcast and a two-part article wrap up. Now, another four months removed from
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Design Education Sucks (and How to Fix It)
Here’s my thesis: Design education sucks. Shocking? not hardly. Not to me. Not to Don Norman, the grand-papa of user-centered design and one half of the Nielsen/Norman group. His seminal design book, THE DESIGN
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5 Incredibly Insightful User Experience Blog Posts
A few months ago, Newman started a UX Group on the social bookmarking site Diigo. It’s called UX Puppy. I was looking over some of the recent articles and was struck with just how
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No Money User Testing: The Free Plan revealed
Are you a scrappy start-up that wants to test but have no money? Don’t feel sad, my friend. @BUXOfficial is here to help. In Ben’s last post, he asked a pretty good question: How
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How Much Should You Spend on User Testing?
One of the first hurdles that businesses face when they finally buy in to the idea of user testing is developing an appropriate budget. On the one hand, you know that user testing isn’t
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Align your Design Project with Heuristics
Recently, I read two posts that helped me think about the entire UX process, and specifically why many user testing instruments yield lukewarm results in the hands of the beginning. Let me start by
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