IT Wales has written a short article on usability guidelines for websites on mobile devices. The seven guiding principles include:
Tagged: mobile and user research
Rosenfeld Media have announced that Kevin Brooks and Whitney Quesenbery will be producing a new guide ‘Storytelling for User Experience Design’. Storytelling is one of the most important skills of a researcher, as storytelling helps researchers to communicate their findings with project and client teams.
Tagged: user research
Nursing Times has published an article which looks are using ‘patient stories’ to help identify processes of hospital care which require quality or clinical redesign. The paper commented that patients and their families should be included in the ‘co-design’ of care.
Tagged: Ethnography
The Department for Innovation, Universities and Skills today has published its white paper on innovation which sets out what the Government will do to help ensure that innovation can flourish in the UK. The paper – ‘Innovation Nation’ can be downloaded from the DIUS website here (it opens a pdf file).
Tagged: Innovation
An interesting article (Coming Soon: Nothing Between You and Your Machine)
Tagged: User interface design
The importance of design research is explored in this article in the New York Times. LG’s Vice President for Product Strategy and Marketing, Ehtisham Rabbani, makes the point that the people we design products and services for are often nothing like ourselves.
Tagged: user research
Drambuie Research an amusing look at identifying consumers who are unlikely to be your main market segment.
Tagged: People and Research Method
The Daily Telegraph has an interesting article on Nova Spivack, the founder of Radar Networks who have launched Twine.com a new bookmarking and social networking site (in the beta phase at the moment). Radar Networks have attracted approximately $20 million of funding to date from backers such as Paul Allen.
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