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How red routes can help you take charge of your product backlog
http://userfocus.co.uk/articles/prioritising-functions.html
Skip to Main Content. Userfocus User Experience Consultants. How red routes can help you take charge of your product backlog. February 3, 2014. Red routes are the key tasks that users want to carry out with the product. Most systems have just a handful of red routes: these are the key activities that people expect to be able to complete with the system: these are the reasons why people have purchased it. But although you can get almost anyone to start. Using your product, people won’t continue. I examine...
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Creating usability test tasks that really motivate users
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Skip to Main Content. Userfocus User Experience Consultants. Creating usability test tasks that really motivate users. July 5, 2010. Usability test tasks are the beating heart of a usability test. These tasks determine the parts of a system that test participants will see and interact with. Usability test tasks are so critical that some people argue they are even more important than the number of participants you use. So how do we create test tasks that go beyond the mundane and engage participants?
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User-Centered Design: The Fable of the User-Centered Designer
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Skip to Main Content. Userfocus User Experience Consultants. User-Centered Design: The Fable of the User-Centered Designer. The Fable of the User-Centered Designer. Once there was a bright young man who was looking for an effective designer. He wasn't looking for just any designer. He wanted to find a designer who could design complex technology that was simple to use.". Follow a young man's journey as he discovers the three secrets of user-centred design. It's a small book that has big results. If you'd...
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David Travis - NUX3 - Manchester UX and Design Conference #NUX3
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The 7 deadly sins of user research. But many design teams continue to approach user research naively: for example, they ask people what they want (and believe the answers). Or they approach research projects with a hidden agenda: they cherry pick the findings and tell senior management what they want to hear. Or they allow just one person to become the repository of user research knowledge and fail to build a user-centred culture. David blogs at http:/ userfocus.co.uk/articles. Middot; @Uber MCR.
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User experience UX consultancy & usability training from Userfocus
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Skip to Main Content. Userfocus User Experience Consultants. User Experience Consulting and UX Training. We are a London-based usability consulting and usability training company. Using evidence-based design, we help clients like RBS, Orange and Yahoo! Create technology that is simple and enjoyable to use. Request a free proposal. Our consultancy services will help you understand your users and their goals. Our usability training courses will help you create great user interfaces. Get free email updates.
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247 web usability guidelines
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Skip to Main Content. Userfocus User Experience Consultants. 247 web usability guidelines. October 22, 2014. Last updated April 12 2016. 20 guidelines to evaluate the usability of home pages. 44 guidelines to evaluate how well a web site supports the users tasks. 29 guidelines to evaluate navigation and information architecture. Forms and data entry. 23 guidelines to evaluate forms and data entry. 13 guidelines to evaluate trust and credibility. Writing and content quality. Page layout and visual design.
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Conducting an effective stakeholder interview
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Skip to Main Content. Userfocus User Experience Consultants. Conducting an effective stakeholder interview. There are few things more likely to make your design or UX project difficult than a poorly conducted stakeholder meeting. Structuring your stakeholder interview around a few simple techniques will ensure you get off to a good start and set you up for success. — Philip Hodgson. October 6, 2014. Client: “We need you to design a new wibble.”. Designer: “OK”. Designers and UX-ers find this approach fru...
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Usability articles and resources
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Skip to Main Content. Userfocus User Experience Consultants. Is Usability a Science? 3 April, 2017 -. Recently, Todd Zazelenchuk, David Travis and I met up at our favourite watering hole in Staffordshire. As is often the case we stumbled into a discussion about usability, this time mulling over the question of whether usability is or is not a science. It turned out to be a slightly more challenging question than we had expected. Cut to the pub—. Bright Ideas for User Experience Researchers. If you've bee...
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Notes on Are Personas Past Their Prime? (aka towards more-Agile and more-Lean personas) – walkerux
https://walkerux.wordpress.com/2015/07/15/notes-on-are-personas-past-their-prime-aka-towards-more-agile-and-more-lean-personas
Great user experience is key! I'm on Twiitter @johnwalkerux. Notes on Are Personas Past Their Prime? Aka towards more-Agile and more-Lean personas). From a post by David Travis on Userfocus.co.uk, link here. This only focuses on about half the article, check out the whole thing! The traditional persona has lost much of its power. As team move to Agile and Lean, they don’t believe personas created before the development process hold that much validity. The 2-1/2 D Sketch. Label bottom-right Needs and Goal...
