background preloader

Usability Research

Facebook Twitter

User Experience Design. June 21, 2004 I've been practicing information architecture since 1994, and from Gopher to Google have seen dramatic changes in the landscape of organization, search and retrieval.

User Experience Design

Through these ten tempestuous years, I've found the infamous three circle diagram to be a great tool for explaining how and why we must strike a unique balance on each project between business goals and context, user needs and behavior, and the available mix of content. Figure 1. The Three Circles of Information Architecture. User Experience Honeycomb. User Experience Honeycomb - Peter Morville. UX Design-Planning Not One-man Show. A lot of confusion and misunderstanding surrounds the term "user experience.

UX Design-Planning Not One-man Show

" The multitude of acitivities that can be labeled with these two words span a vast spectrum of people, skills and situations. If you ask for UX design (UXD), what exactly are you asking for? Similary, if someone tells you they are going to provide you with UXD for an application, website or intranet or extranet, what exactly are you going to get? UX Spiral.

Design Diagram. The Web Credibility Project - Stanford University.