Product Review | Cardsorting

Posted on Aug 24, 2011 in Card Sorting, Feng Shui, Learning new stuff, User Experience Design, Wayfinding | No Comments

I really like card sorting – especially when I can give the task to someone else like the client! Okay, that’s just a little sadistic of me, but I’m really thrilled with a free tool called xSort. It kind of resembles Solitaire, so it’s not quite so intimidating to testers. It’s not a perfect tool, ...

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Definitions: Take Two

Posted on Aug 24, 2011 in Asking questions, Learning new stuff, The Beginners Mind, User Experience Design | 2 Comments

I asked the question “what are the universally accepted elements of UX design and how do we know those are valid”? Twenty-four hours later, I’m not much closer to an answer! But I stumbled across an article from Behaviour and Information Techonology by Mark Hassenzahl and Noam Tractinsky from the Darmstadt University of Technology, Department ...

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Definitions and other illusive things

Posted on Aug 23, 2011 in Asking questions, Equanimity, Feng Shui, The Beginners Mind, User Experience Design | No Comments

I’ve been lurking and reading diving deeply into the world of user experience design for somewhere around two years now and one thing I find quite interesting is the persistent debate over definitions. This is especially true when it comes to job titles – and that’s also where the topic gets pretty sticky. I’m not ...

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