UIE Brain Sparks

UIE Virtual Seminar - Designing for Sign-up
with Joshua Porter
Date: Thursday, December 11, 2008
Time: 1:30pm ET
(Please note the special start time)
Is sign-up part of your design? How do you eng...

SpoolCast: Q&A Follow-Up from Conducting Usability Tests in the Wild
Recorded: November 12, 2008
Brian Christiansen, UIE Podcast Producer
Duration: 29m30s | File size: 17 MB
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The User Experience world is filled with many disciplines: information architecture, user researcher, interaction design, copywriting, and visual design — to name just a few. Each of these discipli...

UIE Virtual Seminar - Essentials of Effective Visual Design
with Patrick Hofmann of designPH and Google Australia
Date: Thursday, November 20, 2008
Time: 1:30pm ET
(Please note the unique start ti...

One of the many highlights of our recent UI13 conference was Scott Berkun’s Why Designer’s Fail and What to Do About It presentation. It generated a tremendous amount of buzz on the topic of how we...

At last week’s UI13 conference, the buzz was about getting started with usability testing. Folks I talked to had a frequent refrain: their group wants to start with some type of user research, but ...

So, the user had just booked their ticket and was choosing their seat assignments when, out of no where, comes this error message:
What should the user do with this little tidbit of information?
A...

Folks, it’s just about that time… if it’s fall in New England, it must be the User Interface Conference. We are now in our thirteenth year of bringing together all walks of user experience and usab...

Here at User Interface Engineering, we’ve come up with three questions to help us determine if a team will produce designs that deliver great experiences. Teams that answer the questions positively...

Have you looked at your site with Javascript disabled?
Robert Nyman does just that with the Nokia and SonyEricsson UK sites and finds some surprising results. It’s quite a good write up.
Very much...