Category: user-centered design

  • What’s The Best Way To Train User Experience Professionals?

    What’s The Best Way To Train User Experience Professionals?

    What’s the best way to get knowledge and skills to be a user experience professional? Can you learn it all on the job? Is there a role for education and classes? If there is, what kind of classes? Should you try and get a college degree? (There are very few undergraduate schools, that actually have…

  • 5 Favorite Tips From Famous UX Experts

    5 Favorite Tips From Famous UX Experts

    I attended and spoke at the Virtual conference from Rosenfeld Media today “31 Awesomely Practical UX Tips”.  Each speaker presented their favorite user experience tips. I took one tip from each of the speakers as my favorite. Here they are: Steve Krug — Test your competition/comparables. Before you choose a design path or design idea,…

  • 5 Ways A Task Analysis Results In Great Design

    5 Ways A Task Analysis Results In Great Design

    A task analysis is the one document that really spells out what the users’ experience is going to be before you design anything at all. I think the process of task analysis ,and the document that comes out of the process, are some of the most interesting and useful things one does as a UX…

  • 4 Ways Personas & Scenarios Result In Great Design

    4 Ways Personas & Scenarios Result In Great Design

    I find myself these days working on two streams: on the one hand I’m working on my next new project (which is another book called “How To Get People To Do Stuff”) and on the other hand I’m recording a series of online training videos that cover the basics of doing usable design. Sometimes I…