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Usability Testing… your own designs
12.22.09 | Permalink | Comment?

Origin: http://www.uxmatters.com/mt/archives/2009/12/testing-your-own-designs-redux.php
The challenge in dealing with conformitory bias – “People can reinforce their existing attitudes by selectively collecting new evidence, by interpreting evidence in a biased way or by selectively recalling information from memory.” – is real. Getting “over yourself” and seeking out valid user testing and feedback is a tough call when you’re doing it [...]
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“Aesthetics are subjective, behavior is not.” – Bokardo
12.17.09 | Permalink | Comment?

http://bokardo.com/archives/what-metric-are-you-designing-to-improve-today/
I keep going back to this post by Josh Porter about metrics to design to, rather than focusing on aesthetics and appearance, clear design values, meet that need when the time is right, but most importantly design to solve a problem, find a solution, make an improvement, set a metric, a goal and look to [...]
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Staycation? You betcha!
02.11.09 | Permalink | Comment?

Inspired by the Green Patriot Poster project. I whipped together this mashup over lunch…
Credit goes to the original illustrator and designer of “Me travel? …not this summer!”
I submitted it, but I don’t expect it to go live, since I heavily borrowed from the past poster – Mashups Free the World!
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UX vs. XD – what’s the difference?
01.19.09 | Permalink | Comment?

I’ve been wrestling with the use of XD (Experience Design) within our organization instead of the term UX (User Experience Design, or UXD). For some reason the differences seem significant to me and I’m talking a bit of time here to dig into why that might be. The context of my inquiry and work is [...]