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How do and/or should you measure the quality of UX work?

The title says it all. What are your key performance indicators when you do UX work? How do you think should the quality of UX work be judged? Guide questions: How do you measur …
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Capturing Data in a Usability Study

I'm really keen to explore the methods, tools and techniques for recording data during a user test. I'm particularly interested in understanding what methods usability professional …
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Is the cost of a click still the same worth if its to show dynamic content?

I know people say "the less clicks the better", but what if that click is showing dynamic content that appears immediately? I guess what I'm asking is: is it the effort to click o …
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iFrame accessibility and usability issues

Aside from confused scrolling and screen reader problems (and I'm not downplaying these issues, it's just that I've already discussed them at length), are there any concrete access …
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Has anyone been to Jakob Nielsen or Steve Krug’s day-long seminars?

Both these gentlemen are offering day-long seminars in London this spring: Jakob Nielsen - Fundamental Guidelines for Web Usability for £458 Steve Krug - Do-It-Yourself Usability …
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Positive / Negative impacts of address verification systems on online form UX.

Hi all, Address verification systems validate a user provided address against a database of known addresses, usually provided by Postal services. An example can be seen at http:// …
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Cataloguing and categorising products

Has anyone come across ecommerce sites that catalogue and categorise vast numbers of products really well? Aside from Amazon, very few sites seem to cope with this issue well, with …
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Where should a ‘recalculate’ button be ideally placed in a web form?

What's the best practice for positioning a recalculate button in a web form page? The back end systems are not AJAX, so we have some Javascript-based in-line validation that ultim …
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How to persuade marketing department that banners with multiple links is very bad user experience

Hi all, We always have a banner on the homepage of our website, recently the marketing department have been asking us to place multiple links on the banner to go to different page …
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usability/ux elevator pitch?

Whenever I try to introduce someone to usability/ux, I always find myself having to explain the following: The definition of usability/ux. The fact that I make web site easier an …
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Site usability Case study

As its Friday I wondered if anyone could list all the usability concerns they may have with this site. http://www.stereoandalarm.co.uk/ It seems like a good site for a case study …
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Improving the usability of UXExchange

I was writing an answer to a question just now, and I couldn't remember the formatting rule for bullets. I searched everywhere, but I couldn't find a link to the formatting refere …
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Do people like/hate popups, even if they’re useful?

In my company, our product is a popup modal widget that shows information about different terms mentioned in blogs, when hovering over a term As lead designer, I find myself wonder …
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Good UX resources

So I've always had a real haphazard approach to my UX knowledge and research and would really like to consolidate a good bunch of resources. Anyone care to rip open their RSS reade …
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UX Designer on Mat Leave

I'm a UX Designer in Toronto on Mat leave (I'm time constrained). What resources would you recommend I use to stay on top of the latest/hottest topics in the industry?

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