I've been working on a web app, and have gotten the wireframes pretty far along, based on initial in-house research & discussion. The biz guys are eager to set up some demos of …

The question "What are your favorite counter-intuitive principles or ideas within UX?" has interesting responses from DA One I like is Steve Jobs' opinion of focus groups. " …

In times of economic hardship, IT projects can exclude user involvement and focus solely on the business requirements and the experience of an UX team or UX professionals. I've ex …

Hi, I'm starting on a redesign of a university website (basically rebuilding the whole IA and then UI) and I'm given a chance to have a short session with 5-7 students of the unive …

I'm setting up a series of remote research sessions. Normally I'd use a recruitment agency to deal with this, but I can't this time because the client doesn't want to share the con …

I'm running a couple of focus groups soon and I'm looking for recommendations for some quick ice-breaker activities to get the participants warmed up and engaged. Has anyone used …

What do people think about this? Do people think UX professionals should be referencing journals more? Read this article recently http://www.upassoc.org/upa_publications/jus/2009n …

I'm looking to do a short research piece on the effectiveness of a clients home page. I want to evaluate first impressions of: Visual Design, Content relevancy, Trustworthiness and …

As I'll be getting started on a project involving displaying dashboard data on call centre wallboards I thought I'd solicit your experience as part of my preparatory research. If …

I'm just wondering if it's possible to automate usability testing (or some parts of it) by using robots to imitate human behavior. For example we can use neural network technology …

Microsoft Production Reaction Cards (doc) The set includes 118 words which presumably you would reorganise, format and print off as individual "cards". I've never used them but I …

This question is NOT about what's appropriate compensation or reward for a participant that you recruit from outside your organisation. It's about participants from inside your org …

Hi, i´m looking for a method to validate use cases (during design phase). Right now we conduct an workshop with SME´s (subject matter experts), developers and usability experts (n …

Clients often get confused between an end user vs. a proxy user e.g. the trader on the floor using the software vs. the trading floor manager. What would be the top 5 reasons to pr …

I've always been quite sceptical of the value of focus groups but i'm interested to know what value they bring in early stage user research? Matt