User Experience – The Magazine of the UXPA
Revolutionizing User Experiences: The Role of Advanced Technologies in Enhancing Everyday Products. Advanced technologies are transforming user experiences, shaping product development, driving…. User Experience Professionals Association (UXPA) International supports people who research, design, and evaluate the user experience (UX) of ...
SUStisfied? Little-Known System Usability Scale Facts
Aug 15, 2011 · The System Usability Scale (SUS) developed by John Brooke in 1986 is the most used questionnaire for measuring perceptions of usability. SUS is composed of ten statements with responses ranging from 1 (strongly disagree) to 5 (strongly agree) (see Figure 1). To generate a SUS score, you first have to convert all responses so that they range ...
About User Experience Magazine
User Experience magazine started in 2001 and was a printed publication delivered to members of UXPA. The magazine website launched in early 2013 and became completely digital in 2014. After a major redesign in 2023, our magazine changed its format embracing discussions on every published article. The aim is to provide a more interactive ...
The Story Behind the One Laptop per Child PC: An Inteview with …
Mar 15, 2011 · Yves Béhar is the designer behind the One Laptop per Child Personal Computer (OLPC). Originally, the scaled-down, $100 laptop was greeted with skepticism by key industry players.
Cultural Probes: Understanding Users in Context - User Experience
Sep 15, 2006 · One of the latest techniques in the Human Computer Interaction (HCI) community is a data collection mechanism called cultural probes. These were introduced in 1999 by William Gaver, an academic based at the London Royal College of Art, in the publication Interactions.. Since then, cultural probes have been discussed, developed, and …
Taking Aim: The Power of User Experience Goals
Mar 15, 2008 · A user experience goal is a choice made by your product team about what kind of experience you want your users to have with your product or service. You use these choices to measure and direct the design of your product. Goals let us know when our tasks are complete, so that we can move on to something else.
A Day in the Life of a UX Manager – User Experience
November 23, 2019 3. The rise of the User Experience (UX) profession has seen a corresponding rise in the preponderance and importance of the UX manager role. UX management is now a bona fide career track inside organizations big and small. The UX manager role is unique in corporate leadership roles in that it blends the traditional ...
A Really Smart Card: How Hong Kong’s Octopus Card moves people
Nov 15, 2008 · The Octopus is the world’s pioneering and most extensive electronic payment system and was the first in the world to use contact-less stored-value smart card technology for public transportation. The card can be recharged at railway stations or outlets such as 7-Eleven that accept the card, and it is debited by “swiping” in proximity to a ...
The User Experience of Libraries: Serving The Common Good
May 7, 2017 · The User Experience of Libraries: Serving The Common Good. Figure 1. There’s much more to the user experience of a library than navigating the stacks. (Credit: Mauricio Lazo/UH Libraries) Libraries may not be the first thing that comes to mind when thinking about great design. It’s easy to assume the user experience of a library is limited ...
On Becoming a UX Manager: New Skills, Requirements, and Rewards
Sep 17, 2017 · Becoming manager of a user experience team adds to that already-momentous transition its own unique set of issues, considerations, and requirements. While the learning curve can be steep, the rewards of UX management are many. Watching teammates grow professionally is immensely gratifying, as is seeing a high-functioning team address complex ...