Weaving Usability and Cultures. User Experience Diagrams. A collection of diagrams about user experience fundamentals. Last updated June 2011. The Elements of User Experience (PDF) Conceptual model of the considerations involved in designing successful user experiences for Web sites. -Jesse James Garrett User Experience Cycle (PDF) The user experience is not one simple action -it is an interconnected cycle of attempting to satisfy hopes, dreams, needs, and desires. User Experience Honeycomb A tool for advancing the conversation beyond usability and helping people understand the many facets that can impact the quality of user experience. Designing the User Experience This poster illustrates the path to more usable products.
The Fundamentals of Experience Design The model covers the basic UX stuff like moving from a focus on tasks to a focus on activities, as well as more theoretical discussions like activity centered design vs user centered design. User-Centered Design Process (PDF) The User Experience Cosmos (PDF) The Experience Cube. Unify :: Want to Produce Sexy Design? Visualize a Project Plan. I find it surprising that, given the wide range of very specific deliverables we produce, I’m most consistently complimented on my project plans. Spreadsheets & Dependencies Aren’t Engaging I recently attended a WebEx meeting where a team of 8 stared at a project plan spreadsheet for an hour. The spreadsheet organization was simple: activities as rows, each with columns for name, responsible person/team, start date, and end date. But the arduous discussion took forever and achieved little. The problem? You couldn’t see the plan. Oh, sure, everyone was watching their WebEx (and emailing, IMing, and maybe even taking in the latest YouTube sensation) and put up with the spreadsheet.
The format of my EightShapes Unify project plan is, not surprisingly, a gantt chart. But, and it’s a big BUT, my project plans come nowhere close to the rich, deep information conveyed through a typical Microsoft Project plan. Tell Your Plan’s Story with a Picture Creating a Project Plan with EightShapes Unify. 10 Most Common Misconceptions About User Experience Design. Whitney Hess is an independent user experience designer, writer and consultant based in New York City. She authors the blog Pleasure and Pain. When I tell people that I am a user experience designer, I usually get a blank stare. I try to follow it up quickly by saying that I make stuff easy and pleasurable to use. That’s the repeatable one-liner, but it’s a gross oversimplification and isn’t doing me any favors. The term “user experience” or UX has been getting a lot of play, but many businesses are confused about what it actually is and how crucial it is to their success.
I asked some of the most influential and widely respected practitioners in UX what they consider to be the biggest misperceptions of what we do. User experience design is NOT... 1. ...user interface design It’s not uncommon to confuse “user experience” with “user interface” — after all it’s a big part of what users interact with while experiencing digital products and services. 2. ...a step in the process 6. ...expensive. Gotomobile | The mobile usability and user experience blog. About UX - User Experience - UX Design. MEX - the strategy forum for mobile user experience.