Over Messaging the User Experience

Alert: Are you sure you want to proceed? In his seminal book, The Humane Interface, the late Jef Raskin, one of the original Apple Designers, described inefficient interfaces as those that required user input but provided nothing in return. He provided as an example a Mac dialogue box from over 12 years ago (shown below)

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5 Valuable Skills for UX Professionals

The background, education and skills of professionals in User Experience are diverse. Regardless of whether you’re more on the research side or more on the design side of the User Experience, here are five skills that will make you more valuable and effective in your job. 1.    Coding No you’re not a developer, you probably

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Five Challenges and Pain Points Facing UX Professionals Today

There are more than five challenges facing UX professionals today, but here are five that tend to cross projects and products: Time: You’ve got two weeks to get the next design out. How do you have time to conduct ethnographic research, build personas and conduct a usability test?In many organizations, even a “quick” usability test

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The Most Popular UX Articles of 2011

Thank you to the 585k visitors and 1.3 Million page views on MeasuringUsability.com in 2011. Of the 52 articles written in 2011, in ascending order, here are the 15 most popular: Reversing the order of survey items probably hurts more than it helps: Many surveys and questionnaires include a mix of positive and negatively worded

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10 Ways to Measure & Manage the User Experience

Improving the user experience means starting with the right measure or measures to manage. Here are 10 of the more common ones I’ve written about: SUPR-Q: The Standardized Universal Percentile Rank-Questionnaire is a 13 item instrument for measuring website usability, credibility/trust, loyalty and appearance. Scores are based on a database of 200 websites from tens

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Measuring User Interface Disasters

Completion rates are the gateway metric. If users can’t complete tasks on a website, not much else matters. The only thing worse than users failing a task is users failing a task and thinking they’ve completed it successfully. This is a disaster. The term was made popular by Gerry McGovern and disasters are anathema to

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The Growth of UX Organizations

UX professional salaries have increased 7% from 2009 to 2011. During that same period the profession has also grown. For the last two Usability Professional Association Salary Surveys (2009 and 2011) respondents were asked how many UX Professionals there are in their company and the total size of the company. In 2011 the question posed

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Are Women Paid Less Than Men In UX?

As part of the recent UPA Salary Survey I conducted a deep-dive into the nominal differences in salary between men and women. Most of the responses came from the US (70%) and the international currencies were converted into US dollars. Men make around 4.4% more The first thing I looked at was the median salary

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Four Terrific And Four Terrible User Experiences

When we look to improve the user experience of software or websites, sometimes the best improvements aren’t slight tweaks to the interface but involve eliminating steps altogether. Here are four examples from the physical world that may inspire improvements in the digital world followed by four experiences that can use some refining. Four Terrific User

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