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BUX Podcast #41:Recruiting User Testers and Judging Design Critics
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
Read More »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
Read More »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
Read More »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”
Read More »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
Read More »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
Read More »BUX Podcast #37: An Interview with InVision CEO, Clark Valberg and Lead Designer, Ryan Duffy
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
Read More »Better User Experience Podcast #28: Final Thoughts on Personas
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
Read More »Rethinking Personas for Small Business, Part 2: Be the Bieber
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.
Read More »Rethinking Personas for Small Business, Part 1: Signal, Not Stratification
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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