UXperts February round-up
February 2019: Making B2B more user-centric + World IA Day 2019 + Remote user research webinar + more
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Remote user research: planning and recruitment — webinar
People for Research’s third webinar, on Wednesday 27th February, will be about planning and recruiting for remote user research. Adam Babajee-Pycroft is the special guest. Click here to register
By Jessica Lewes at peopleforresearch.co.uk
Contextual inquiry: 8 typical patterns and issues
Eight common patterns, behaviors and issues often seen during a contextual inquiry, with a focus on for enterprise software services and culture.
By Rik Williams at uxdesign.cc
Don’t do user research, unless…
…you know the secret sauce to generate useful insights. Users don’t know what they want but think they do. As product manager or UX researcher you need to find out what they actually need.
By Flow Bohl at uxplanet.org
Solutions to branching paths
We need to rethink the art of interactive, nonlinear storytelling. The method, mindset, and practices that create great linear stories do not lead to great interactive narratives.
By Lauri Lukka at uxdesign.cc
Making B2B more user-centric
“The workplace and work practices have fundamentally changed. Employee engagement is now one of businesses’ top priorities.” — Alan Colville
By UCD Bristol at medium.com
World IA Day — accessibility tips for Information Architects
World Information Architecture Day 2019 is all about digital inclusion, so here is a list of five key accessibility aspects that should be considered at the IA stage of any project.
By People for Research at medium.com
Facilitation tips for research with blind users
“Before facilitating my first research sessions with blind users at Vision Australia, I prepared. In this post I’m going to outline what I did, and dive into some pragmatic tips on running these sessions so you too can be prepared.”
By Kayla J Heffernan at medium.com
Accessibility Collective — a new push towards digital inclusion
Money or time should not be the reasons why your product ends up being inaccessible to 400 million disabled users around the world.
By Alex Evans at peopleforresearch.co.uk
How haptics changed the game of usability
Capacitive touch interfaces are replacing mechanical switches, knobs, and dials in consumer, automotive, industrial and medical applications.
By Sourabh Purwar at uxplanet.org
UX design + machine learning = smarter products
Machine intelligence doesn’t automatically lead to smarter user experience if product designers and machine learning experts don’t talk the same language.
By Jarno M. Koponen at venturebeat.com
The era of “move fast and break things” is over
Many of today’s entrepreneurs live by Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg’s now-famous motto: “move fast and break things.” This is increasingly untenable.
By Hemant Taneja at hbr.org
