Remote research webinar + The best way to communicate roadmap status + Gamification in UX design + more
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Not all card sorts are the same. In this article, Jason Stockwell breaks down the differences and the benefits of each card sort type.
By Jason Stockwell, Insights Marketing Manager at People for Research
We’re reaching a stage where people are starting to wonder what a post-pandemic world will look like. Will we go back to an office, will we attend events again, will we be able to make small talk with strangers about the weather, and, of course, will we return to face-to-face research…
And while we know the answers to some of these questions (mainly about how dreary the UK’s forecast can be in November) we, as researchers, have been able to adapt very successfully to a new remote world by taking our jobs home and our research online. …
Celebrating this year’s World Usability Day with some insightful articles from Medium around the topic of human-centred artificial intelligence, 2020’s topic.
The hype around artificial intelligence has, for quite a long time, been a mix of excitement over innovation, technological advancements and new possibilities, and fear that humans will lose control of the technology they create.
The topic will be celebrated during this year’s World Usability Day, which will look to “explore design systems that are both highly automated and allow a great degree of user control and will result in to expand human capabilities 1000-fold.”
“If we can design AI which is ‘reliable, trusted, and safe’ we can dramatically enhance human performance in the coming decade.”
Inspired by WUD’s choice for this year’s theme, we gathered some of our favourite content published by Medium authors. …
Conducting user research in lockdown + Making user recruitment & research more accessible + more
Seven articles by seven authors on Medium that detail some well-known UX design and user research nightmares and horror stories.
The nightmare of planning co-design sessions
Slaying remote collaboration monsters with the power of design
By Laurie Grant
Designing surveys is not always easy
By UX Alpaca
When user recruitment becomes part of the problem
The scary effects of online advertising on the user’s experience
By Marty Seinamets (via UX Collective Editor)
Three horror tales from the world of user experience
By Miriam Roth
The imposter syndrome nightmare
By muditha batagoda (via uxplanet.org)
Do you have any UX/user research horror stories to add to the mix? Let us know and we’ll add them to the list.
The key stats and facts from our latest round of research about the pandemic and its impact on the British population.
By Jason Stockwell and Vicky Karran, PFR’s Data Insights team
When it comes to coronavirus, knowing facts from fables and finding the right sources of data is becoming more and more important. With this in mind, People for Research have been conducting a series of COVID-19 research surveys, which aim to highlight how people are feeling and the areas where people are doing well and need support at the moment.
You can find the most relevant historical data we have collected so far here: www.coronavirus-ukdata.com
We’re diving straight in with the help of our Data Insights team, so get your data scuba gear on! …
Brits who design + Your next persona will be non-human + The big accessibility round-up + more
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The deadline for public sector organisations in the UK to make their existing websites fully accessible is around the corner.
Around a third of disabled people in the UK experience difficulties in accessing public, commercial and leisure goods and services, but at least some of that is set to change by 23rd September. This is the deadline by when all websites managed by public organisations in the UK will have to be fully accessible. This will include not only making their platforms inclusive, but also publishing accessibility statements, explaining how accessible their websites are.
And that’s not all: the new regulations will extend to all public mobile applications by 23rd June 2021.
What the government is hinting at is: accessibility requirements are no longer a ‘nice to have’, but should be seen as a priority and an absolute necessity for all businesses and organisations in the long run. …
The UX of LEGO interface panels + How tech is helping to close the gender equality gap + Master story, master UX + more
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By Jason Stockwell, Insights Marketing Manager at People for Research
User researchers have turned to surveys and quantitative work in the last three months to fill the void left by face-to-face research sessions, and it looks like surveys is here to stay as part of the user researcher’s armoury on an ongoing basis.
This means a lot of people who are currently conducting unmoderated questionnaires fall into common traps. We have all done it; we have all seen it. Today we’re going to put what’s wrong to right and make all surveys awesome.
We’re not going to waste time here! Let’s cover 10 of the most common problems when building a survey. …
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