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Align your Design Project with Heuristics

Align your Design Project with Heuristics

Newman Lanier April 18, 2012 0

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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Better User Experience Podcast #24: Interview with Marc van Agteren from Usabilla

Better User Experience Podcast #24: Interview with Marc van Agteren from Usabilla

Newman Lanier January 23, 2012 1

Podcast: Download My favorite part of any job is sitting down and chatting with people.  That’s why I’m always happy to do interviews here on the podcast – and a big thanks to Ben

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Hierarchy of Needs – the Deprecated Pyramid

Hierarchy of Needs – the Deprecated Pyramid

Newman Lanier December 9, 2011 1

Essential Question: Can User Experience and Usability needs fit into a  Maslow’s hierarchy of needs type pyramid? All these pyramids are deprecated.  I’ve spent the last few hours slowly fading into madness and …

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User-Testing in 3 Questions: Why Drive-By User Testing Works

User-Testing in 3 Questions: Why Drive-By User Testing Works

Ben Snyder December 7, 2011 3

[Note: In Monday's podcast I said we were going to be doing a real user test today. We've decided to push that back to next week. We had two more items we wanted to

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Sell More on Your Website by Understanding a Bit About Entropy

Sell More on Your Website by Understanding a Bit About Entropy

Ben Snyder October 19, 2011 3

If you listened to Monday’s podcast, you know that I’m on a bit of a kick about entropy. It has to do with this book I’m reading called The Information, by James Gleick. The

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Cut the Chute and Get on the Critical Path (to Profit)

Cut the Chute and Get on the Critical Path (to Profit)

Ben Snyder September 28, 2011 4

If you’ve been following the website or podcasts over the past few weeks you’ve seen Newman and I dig into the topic of web usability. We approached it, at first, from a philosophical perspective. 

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