Category User Experience Design
User Experience Design (UXD) is more than design. It’s a process of improving the user satisfaction of a product by improving the accessibility, usability and the pleasure of interacting with it and, as such, much broader than just design. In this category, we have collected the articles addressing the extended aspects of UXD.
Contextual UX is the use of context-aware technologies that allow us to design and build experiences that are personalized to meet unique needs of the individual user based on specific situation or context of use. Before we start, let’s look at two of the primary concepts that define the user experience from a human-computer interaction… continue reading
Empathy – the capacity to recognize emotions that are being experienced by another person – is one of the many ‘soft’ skills a great UX designer should possess. Empathising with users leads to a genuine understanding of how to solve their problem and ultimately building better products. Many great authors have written about the subject.… continue reading
A couple of weeks ago I implemented Qualaroo on my blog. Qualaroo, formerly known as KISSinsights, is a survey tool made by the creators of Crazy Egg and KISSmetrics, which allows you to interact with your visitors. Running a UX blog, I wanted to find out one thing: what does UX mean to you all. In this article I share… continue reading
When it comes to user experience designing, one can easily deem its dynamics as highly enticing. In spite of this, they can be quite complicated too. There is a multitude of factors which need to be taken into consideration, and if you’re just starting out in the UX domain, then the professional advice of an… continue reading
It seems an endless discussion whether the user experience can be designed or not. The difficulty of the discussion lies in the level of abstraction since everything is an experience and everyone is a user. There is no standard definition, nor consensus among the practitioners, of what experience design really … continue reading
