USER EXPERIENCE (UX) Continued
Articles and Resources for User Experience Design.
Explanation of UX
User experience, often abbreviated UX, is a term used to describe the overall experience and satisfaction a user has when using a product or system. It most commonly refers to a combination of software and business topics, such as selling over the web, but it applies to any result of interaction design.
This field has its roots in human factors and ergonomics, a field that since the late 1940s has been focusing on the interaction between human users, machines and the contextual environments to design systems that address the user's experience. The term also has a more recent connection to user-centered design principles and also incorporates elements from similar user-centered design fields:
- Human computer interaction
- Information architecture
- Interaction design
- Interface design
- User interface design
- Usability
- Usability engineering
- Visual design
As with the fields mentioned above, user experience design is a highly multi-disciplinary field, incorporating aspects of psychology, anthropology, computer science, graphic design and industrial design.
At its core, user experience design incorporates most or all of the above disciplines to positively impact the overall user experience with a particular system or device. User experience design defines a sequence of screen presentations, user interactions, and system responses that meet user goals and tasks while satisfying business and functional requirements. (Wikipedia)
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User Experience Design Articles & Resources
As a service to our professional community, we are pleased to bring you a great starting place for locating articles and resources for user experience design.
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User Experience Design Websites
- ACM SIGCHI The ACM's Special Interest Group on Computer-Human Interaction, brings together people working on the design, evaluation, implementation, and study of interactive computing systems for human use.
- A List Apart A List Apart Magazine explores the design, development, and meaning of web content, with a special focus on web standards and best practices.
- Advanced Common Sense This is Steve Krug's website author of Don't Make Me Think.
- [BEEP] A blog by User Experience (UX) / User Centered Design (UCD) practitioner and Big Information Architect (IA) Peter Boersma.
- Challis Hodge's UXblog Challis Hodge discusses UX and has several resource lists available.
- Customer Experience Crossroads A blog by Susan Abbott covering the branded customer experience.
- D. Keith Robinson UX expert David Keith Robinson's blog where you can read his artiles.
- Disambiguity A blog covering topics in User Experience (UX), User Centred Design (UCD), Information Architecture (IA), Interaction Design (IxD), and Usability.
- ExperienceCurve: A blog that covers the intersection of social media, marketing, and customer experience.
- Experience Planner A blog by Scott Weisbrod that covers factors that go into creating a positive customer experience.
- Good Experience Blog A blog covering the Good Experience we should create for customers.
- jnd.org Don Norman's Essays.
- Logic+Emotion David Armano's bog where he shares thoughts + opinions that are solely his own. Logic+Emotion exists at the intersection of business + experience design - where passive consumers become active participants.
- Louis Rosenfeld Author of "Architecture for the World Wide Web" discusses current issues and thoughts in user experience and information architecture.
- The Product Usability Weblog A blog that covers news, research, and current events related to consumer product usability.
- Putting People First Articles about user experience, experience design, and people-centered innovation.
- Semantic Studios Peter Morville's website and articles.
- Total Experience Explores designing for experience: its theory, its practice, and how designing for experiences affects us socially and in our personal lives.
- The Interaction Designer's Coffee Break Also known as GUUUI, there are articles about interaction design.
- User Experience Magazine a magazine on UX published by the Usability Professionals' Association
- UXnet.org UXnet creates effective, functional, and strategic networks to enable cross-disciplinary collaboration between user experience professionals. We connect people, organizations, resources, and ideas to enable the growth and maturation of User Experience as a practice, a community, and eventually a discipline.
- UX Magazine An online publication covering a wide range of user experience topics.
- UX Matters A user experience blog with good articles.
- User Centered A blog with practical articles about the design of everyday things.
- Vanderwal.net: Thomas Vanderwal's blog covering information architecture, interaction design, and UX.
- WebWord John Rhodes' blog with articles on usability and human factors.
UX Tools
- Ethnio A friendly new way to recruit people from your website for research.
- Intuitect A free design, documentation and modeling tool for the user experience design process.
- MindCanvas An online research service to gather insights about your customers' thoughts & feelings.
- Morae Software for usability testing and user experience research that helps you identify site and application design problems and share them with stakeholders.
- WebWord Enables application designers to create wireframes, flow diagrams, prototypes, and specifications for applications and web sites faster and easier than creating static mockups with their current tools.
- xSort A card sorting application for Mac OS X developed to streamline the workflow of user experience professionals and social scientists.
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