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BUX Podcast #41:Recruiting User Testers and Judging Design Critics

BUX Podcast #41:Recruiting User Testers and Judging Design Critics

Newman Lanier May 18, 2012 0

Ben and I take the time to review our posts this week.  And, get sidetracked on the usual topics.  Kick back and relax.  Happy Friday to you and yours! On today’s podcast we talk

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Design Smackdown: Prepare to be Judged

Design Smackdown: Prepare to be Judged

Newman Lanier May 16, 2012 4

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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Looking Back, Again: 10 More Key Usability Concepts: Part 2

Looking Back, Again: 10 More Key Usability Concepts: Part 2

Ben Snyder May 9, 2012 0

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

Looking Back, Again: 10 More Key Usability Concepts: Part 1

Newman Lanier May 7, 2012 2

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

BUX Podcast #39: 10 (More) Key Usability Concepts

Ben Snyder May 4, 2012 1

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)

Design Education Sucks (and How to Fix It)

Newman Lanier May 2, 2012 0

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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BUX Podcast #37: An Interview with InVision CEO, Clark Valberg and Lead Designer, Ryan Duffy

BUX Podcast #37: An Interview with InVision CEO, Clark Valberg and Lead Designer, Ryan Duffy

Ben Snyder April 20, 2012 0

It’s the 37th episode of the BUX podcast and we’ve got another really good one for you! A few months back, I had the opportunity to use the high-fidelity wireframe app InVision. Honestly, I

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Better User Experience Podcast #28: Final Thoughts on Personas

Better User Experience Podcast #28: Final Thoughts on Personas

Newman Lanier February 20, 2012 0

For the past week, we’ve been trying to get to the bottom of personas. We burned through over 4,000 words on the topic: Rethinking Personas for Small Business, Part 1: Signal, Not Stratification Rethinking

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Rethinking Personas for Small Business, Part 2: Be the Bieber

Rethinking Personas for Small Business, Part 2: Be the Bieber

Ben Snyder February 17, 2012 4

This article is part 2 of a two part series on rethinking personas for small business. You can read part 1 here. Your Use of Personas is Based on Fear There. I said it.

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Rethinking Personas for Small Business, Part 1: Signal, Not Stratification

Rethinking Personas for Small Business, Part 1: Signal, Not Stratification

Ben Snyder February 15, 2012 3

Forgive me Father As a ux professional, I have a confession to make. I hate personas. Hate them. I hate them because they’re stupid. They’re made up. They’re improperly applied. And they are fake.

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