Tag Archives: 2017 Tips

Hi – it’s great to see you here in 2017! Join us as we prepare for a year of growth and change in our User Experience field.

In the December 2017 newsletter, we talked about how a well-designed usability study can tell you how users respond to your design and give you plenty of input on how to improve it. We also talked about…

1. Go Rogue. Make a habit of testing your designs in very early stages. It took me an hour to create the sketch below, phrase a task (“Book a flight to Punta Cana”), and launch a first-click test. Results helped…

1. Pay attention: Information Architecture, user experience and content strategy will become popular in seemingly unrelated disciplines. The online behavior world has changed beyond our current horizons. Tools that users deploy to find our experiences have become “smarter” through machine learning algorithms that use heuristics designed by computer engineers. Scared…

1. Get yourself ready to design for new technologies — I know there are plenty of apps, software and websites that still need to be designed and re-designed, but if you are in the field of UX for more than the next 1-2 years then you need to get up…