How did you become interested in user experience design?
I have became increasingly interested in user experience design throughout my time at SILS. Evaluating websites and developing websites for client really puts you in the user’s position and you learn just how important it is to design your system or your interface around the needs of [...]
Making Life Easy is an initiative to “make some noise about things that are hard to use.” You can:
1) See what is frustrating other people
2) Rate these annoyances on a scale of Usability Pain (coming soon!)
3) Upload a photograph and describe what makes life needlessly difficult
How did you become interested in user experience design?I became interested in being a user experience designer when I came to SILS and started learning about the different specialties of Information Science. I became particularly interested in User-Centered design processes and all the techniques and disciplines that fall under that.
What’s your favorite aspect [...]
Register for World Usability Day
Announcing the 2006 World Usability Day celebration in the Triangle! Join UX professionals from around the Triangle area for an Interactionary (a live design competition), keynote speech, food, drink, and fun!
RSVP today!
When: November 14th, 2006 from 6PM to 9PM
Where: GlaxoSmithKline’s Ruvane Auditorium
Keynote: Graeme Boddy, VP [...]
The photos are here! The photos are here!
It’s been a week (okay, a week and a few days) since we celebrated World Usability Day here in the Triangle.
We’re putting the finishing touches on the photo gallery and hope to have it published by the end of this week. (Though, it might not be until next week.) Thanks, again, to everyone who participated: [...]
It’s finally here. Some last minute notes about tonight’s events:
* The event is tonight from 6 p.m. to 9 p.m. @ MCNC Building #1; Get Directions »
* It is free and open to the public, so come one, come all!
* Without our sponsors help, we wouldn’t be here. Thank you Blue Cross Blue Shield, Motricity, [...]
Some people have reported problems getting their usability ticket to post to the tag “uticket” in flickr. If you don’t see your ticket under the tag, email your picture and a description of the violation or commendation to rick@triux.org.
Some interesting quotes:
> But some tech engineers and designers assume too much: that since they understand how the gadget works, everyone should. Bias quips: “A whole lot of companies went out of business because their users were too stupid.”
…and…
>”The feature-list wars were not good for software,” consultant Quesenbery says. “People threw a function in because [...]
This article from the Sydney Morning Herald about World Usability Day starts off absolutely hilarious:
> The managers of Amsterdam’s Schiphol Airport faced a difficult problem a few years ago. They were having to spend a fortune cleaning the men’s toilets because the aim of Dutch men was so poor.
> “They hired some guys who sat [...]
