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The Perception of Control
Every day, at the street by my house, I press the “walk” button, and I wait. Each time, as soon as the traffic cycle is complete, I get...

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Jul 9, 20218 min read


Animation Principles for UX Designers
Animation is a powerful tool in a designer’s toolkit. Animated effects can help transport users between navigational contexts, explain...

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Jun 2, 20217 min read


Behavior Science Has a Place in UX
On any successful product or design team, it’s likely that its members come from a variety of professional backgrounds. “User experience”...

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May 13, 20216 min read


Most in Demand Programming Languages 2021
Several programming languages are there; still, new ones are constantly emerging. But the major concern is which one running the whole...

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Mar 27, 20215 min read


The Paradox of Automation
Machines are getting smarter. More and more tasks are becoming fully automated. As this happens, there is a tendency to believe that many...

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Mar 25, 20214 min read


Cultural Constraints
Each culture has a set of allowable actions for social situations. Thus, in our own culture we know how to behave in a restaurant - even...

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Mar 23, 20216 min read


Using Sound as Signifiers
Don Norman states that "the term signifier refers to any mark or sound, any perceivable indicator that communicates appropriate behavior...

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Mar 21, 20212 min read


Comparing methods
Selecting appropriate methods and planning an evaluation are not trivial. Many factors need to be taken into account. Some are concerned...

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Mar 11, 20217 min read


UX Walkthroughs
A User Experience (UX) Walkthrough is a technique used to identify usability and accessibility issues in a website or application. It is...

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Mar 7, 20214 min read


Contextual inquiry
In the laboratory benchmarking that is done in usability engineering users have little or no control over what they do and how and when...

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Feb 28, 20213 min read


HCI Standards
Standards concern prescribed ways of discussing, presenting, or doing something, which seeks to achieve consistency across products of...

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Feb 24, 20213 min read


Ethnography
A number of HCI researchers have shown interest in ethnography as a method of collecting data about the real work situation. Not only do...

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Feb 19, 20212 min read


Cooperative and participative evaluation
Cooperative evaluation is a technique to improve a user interface specification by detecting the possible usability problems in an early...

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Feb 15, 20213 min read


Windowing Systems
Windowing system may be viewed a managing input and output resources, such as the screen display and input devices, in much the same way...

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Jan 27, 20213 min read


Keystroke-Level Model
Just how fast is using a unified text field and location automation field compared to the traditional approach of using multiple form...

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Jan 23, 20214 min read


The ROCOCO project
During these months (well, a year maybe is more accurate) of remote working, it's interesting to stop a second and think about how...

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Jan 21, 20212 min read


Card Sorting
Card sorting is a technique that involves asking users to organize information into logical groups. This UX research method help designer...

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Jan 7, 20214 min read


The UX Honeycomb
The UX Honeycomb is a visualization tool created by Peter Morville back in 2004. This tool is now well-established and extremely popular...

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Jan 4, 20213 min read


Critical review of experimental procedure and results
When critically reviewing an experiment it is important to consider whether the experiment achieved what it set out to do and the...

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Dec 18, 20203 min read


Interface Metaphors
The term "metaphor" is traditionally associated with language use. When we want to convey an abstract concept in a more familiar and...

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Dec 10, 20203 min read
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