User Experience – The Magazine of the UXPA
Revolutionizing User Experiences: The Role of Advanced Technologies in Enhancing Everyday Products. Advanced technologies are transforming user experiences, shaping product development, driving…. User Experience Professionals Association (UXPA) International supports people who research, design, and evaluate the user experience (UX) of ...
SUStisfied? Little-Known System Usability Scale Facts
Aug 15, 2011 · The System Usability Scale (SUS) developed by John Brooke in 1986 is the most used questionnaire for measuring perceptions of usability. SUS is composed of ten statements with responses ranging from 1 (strongly disagree) to 5 (strongly agree) (see Figure 1). To generate a SUS score, you first have to convert all responses so that they range ...
About User Experience Magazine
User Experience magazine started in 2001 and was a printed publication delivered to members of UXPA. The magazine website launched in early 2013 and became completely digital in 2014. After a major redesign in 2023, our magazine changed its format embracing discussions on every published article. The aim is to provide a more interactive ...
Aligning UX Strategy with Business Goals – User Experience
June 15, 2007 1. User experience (UX) design is becoming a business differentiator. Effective user experiences must address company goals. We must identify how user experience can help make companies successful with an effective strategy that is aligned with business strategy. Our approach offers a concrete way to create and discuss UX strategy.
Business Origami: Learning, Empathizing, and Building with Users
Jul 14, 2016 · Business origami is a quick and easy-to-explain collaborative design method that can be used to understand end users’ environments and teammates, as well as supplement findings from other qualitative research methods. Participatory design activities, such as business origami, can complement the data gathered from interviews and observations ...
Cultural Probes: Understanding Users in Context - User Experience
Sep 15, 2006 · One of the latest techniques in the Human Computer Interaction (HCI) community is a data collection mechanism called cultural probes. These were introduced in 1999 by William Gaver, an academic based at the London Royal College of Art, in the publication Interactions.. Since then, cultural probes have been discussed, developed, and …
UX Maturity Model: From Usable to Delightful – User Experience
Jul 18, 2014 · UX Maturity Model: From Usable to Delightful. July 18, 2014 1. Interaction with software applications is an integral part of our lives today. The quality of interaction is influenced by multiple factors such as usability of the interface, branding, how different the UI is from all others, and whether the UI “feels” delightful.
The User Experience of Libraries: Serving The Common Good
May 7, 2017 · It’s easy to assume the user experience of a library is limited to navigating a maze of bookshelves (see Figure 1). In reality, there has been a recent push among librarians and library professionals to apply user-experience best practices to the design of their services. Today, UX is a growing specialty in the librarianship profession.
A Really Smart Card: How Hong Kong’s Octopus Card moves people
Nov 15, 2008 · The Octopus is the world’s pioneering and most extensive electronic payment system and was the first in the world to use contact-less stored-value smart card technology for public transportation. The card can be recharged at railway stations or outlets such as 7-Eleven that accept the card, and it is debited by “swiping” in proximity to a ...
An Emerging Tool: Facial Expression Recognition Software
Mar 15, 2012 · Other benefits of facial expression recognition software include the ability to save time by quickly coding and analyzing video data, the capability to let other applications (such as gaming software) uniquely respond to the emotional state of a user during testing, and the option to detect discrepancies between reported and actual human emotion.