The Research-Practice Gulf
There is a great gulf between the research community and practice. Moreover, there is often a great gull between what designers do and what industry needs. We believe we know how to do design, but this belief is based more on faith than on data, and this belief reinforces the gulf between the research community and practice.
I find that the things we take most for granted are seldom examined or questioned. As a result,…
The Research-Practice Gulf
There is a great gulf between the research community and practice. Moreover, there is often a great gull between what designers do and what industry needs. We believe we know how to do design, but this belief is based more on faith than on data, and this belief reinforces the gulf between the research community and practice.
I find that the things we take most for granted are seldom examined or questioned. As a result,…
More often than not, the mobile experience for a web application or site is designed and built after the PC version is complete. Learn the three reasons web applications should be designed for mobile first: mobile is exploding; mobile forces you to focus; and mobile extends your capabilities.
Captured on video and shown here for the first time is Luke Wroblewski's seminal presentation at An Event Apart. It's an illuminating and engaging talk, and…
Judith Garman gives a presentation at Manchester Digital's usability event, titled Usability: What's The Use?
Judith: It’s good to see a full house here. I am going to talk to you today about knowing your users.
Ok, so why are we interested in users, they buy our products, they use our services and ultimately they make us a success or a failure. What I want to do is look at a few different products. BBC iPlayer, Facebook, Heathrow terminal 5…
This 20 minute documentary, created by IIT Institute of Design students Nai-Hwa Chiang and Naveen Ravikumar as their final demonstration project, introduces some key concepts and approaches for effective user observation. Features interviews with a number of ID students, alumni and friends. Faculty advisor: Jeremy Alexis.
Almost every company applies user involvement when relevant these days. Throughout the years several methods have been developed to gain useful information from customers. A main question that emerges will lways
remain: what information from users is useful and how an someone judge the value of an opinion?
This article will describe a method to value the opinion users give and determine the relative value between different opinions and users.…
Just think about it… What if you were trapped under something heavy and the mouse was out of your reach? Scary, right? That's exactly why we have these keyboard shortcuts so you can still use Vimeo until the help arrives.
