Don’t Get Lost In Translation: How To Conduct Website Localization
A common mistake with localized websites is considering the translated content to be just another version of the pages in the original language. Translation isn’t everything. Of course, for the user...
View ArticleDesigning For Smartwatches And Wearables To Enhance Real-Life Experience
Imagine two futures of mobile technology: in one, we are distracted away from our real-world experiences, increasingly focused on technology and missing out on what is going on around us; in the...
View ArticleDesigning For Smartwatches And Wearables To Enhance Real-Life Experience
Imagine two futures of mobile technology: in one, we are distracted away from our real-world experiences, increasingly focused on technology and missing out on what is going on around us; in the...
View ArticleDesign Last
How does one design and develop for the responsive web? A lot of methodologies out there try to tackle this problem, but all of them rely on the same classic website development process. It boils down...
View ArticleAccessibility Originates With UX: A BBC iPlayer Case Study
Not long after I started working at the BBC, I fielded a complaint from a screen reader user who was having trouble finding a favorite show via the BBC iPlayer’s home page 1 . The website had recently...
View ArticleDesigning Navigation On Mobile: Prototyping With Keynote
The navigation system is often the most important and complex user interface component of modern websites. In recent years, small screens, responsive website techniques and ever-evolving hardware and...
View ArticleConsiderations When Conducting User Research In Other Countries: A Brazilian...
Following a recent economic windfall 1 , Brazilians are faced with more choices of how to spend their money. This provides a situation for good UX to make a huge impact and sway customers to buy new...
View Article¡Mañana, Mañana! SmashingConf Barcelona 2015: An Event Where Anything Could...
Well, almost anything . We can’t guarantee space shuttle journeys or going back in time, but we will put on a truly intimate, valuable and memorable event. Taking place on October 20–21, SmashingConf...
View ArticleHow To Moderate Effectively In Usability Research
As UX professionals, we know the value of conducting usability research. But UX research initiatives — even when designed well — are not perfect. A lab study to test a website, for example, would...
View ArticleHow Copywriting Can Benefit From User Research
I’ve often heard there are four stages along the road to competence : unconscious incompetence, conscious incompetence, conscious competence, and unconscious competence. Most of us begin our...
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