Nielsen Norman Group: UX Training, Consulting, & Research. What is UX design / What is a UX designer? There's a certain amount of terminology used on this site that assumes a level of previous exposure to the roles of a user experience designer (UX designer) and Information Architect (IA).
This can be presumptious as many people are getting acquainted with the field of UX design and are searching for simple answers to common, fundamental questions such as 'what is a UX designer? ' and 'what are the core elements of UX design? '. One of the key considerations in my role as a user experience designer is to make sure that the site or application I'm designing makes sense to the target user groups, and phraseology and terminology form a large part of this. What is a UX designer / IA? There's a certain amount of terminology used on this site that assumes a reasonable level of previous exposure to the world of UX design and Information Architecture (IA).
One of the key considerations in my role as a user experience designer is to make sure that the site or application I'm designing makes sense to the target user groups, and phraseology and terminology form a large part of this. With this in mind, the remainder of this page is my take on some of the common terminology associated with the realm of UX design in the hope that it may help those getting acquainted with this field. If you are interested in finding out more about this area of website and application design and production, please feel free contact me and I'll do my best to help. Alternatively I am available for UX consultations online via Skype which can be booked via the contact me page. 16 Must-Read Articles for the UX Newbie.
Interested in learning more about user experience, but don’t know where to start?
These quick-and-dirty resources will give you the rundown on UX, UI, and Usability in a little over an hour. 1. User Experience: What Is It and Why Should I Care? By Amy Harvey on Usability Geek (5 minute read) If you’ve never heard of UX before, or you think it doesn’t apply to you, read this guide now. (We’ll wait.) 2. 3. 4. 10 Usability Lessons from Steve Krug’s Don’t Make Me ThinkBy Redd Horrocks on UX Booth (3 minute read) Don’t Make Me Think is widely regarded as one of the most important books on web usability. 5. 15 Tiny UX Elements that Can Make a Big DifferenceBy Graham Charlton on Econsultancy (4 minute read) This list gives visual examples of some handy UX features that are making users’ lives better. 6. 7. 9. 11. 12. 13. 14.
Bonus: just for fun, this comic illustrates an unfortunate UX situation that many of us have experienced. Hannah is a Marketing Associate at UserTesting. 10 Usability Lessons from Steve Krug’s Don't Make Me Think. Steve Krug’s “Don’t Make Me Think” Many people in the usability community regard Steve Krug’s book Don’t Make Me Think: A Common Sense Approach to Web Usability, 2nd Edition as the laypersons usability bible.
This book explains briefly and concisely everything one needs to know about getting started with web usability. For more advanced users, it’s a great refresher course. UX Booth has been open for more than half a year now, and when we started I was always regarded as the layperson of the group. I highly recommend picking up a copy if you get a chance, but here are some things to think about in the meantime.
The Lessons Usability Means…Usability means making sure something works well, and that a person of average ability or experience can use it for its intended purpose without getting hopelessly frustrated.Web applications should explain themselves.As far as humanly possible, when I look at a web page it should be self-evident. How to incorporate Agile and UX design - Manifesto. Posted by Jim Bowes in Agile - on February 11, 2015 Agile and UX seem like natural bedfellows but many organisations who’ve successfully got their development teams to adopt Agile methodologies are struggling to integrate UX design into the process.
The principles of Agile were set out by software developers for software developers. The authors of the Manifesto for Agile Software Development came out of a shared understanding of the problems that developers faced and the obstacles that prevented development teams from delivering maximum value to their customers.
It’s almost a happy accident that Agile methodologies are able to transfer neatly over to many other kinds of work – anything in fact where a traditional waterfall approach leads to inflexibility or where problems are often encountered after an extended up-front period of design/requirements gathering. Agile Scenarios and Storyboards. User stories are great at capturing product functionality.
But they are less suited to describe the user interaction in more detail. This is where scenarios and storyboards come into play: Both are great tools to describe the interaction steps. In this post, I explain what scenarios and storyboards are, and how they can be used effectively in an agile context, and how the two techniques relate to user stories.