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From a design and development standpoint, user experience is the applied practice of making technology accessible. From an end-user's standpoint, user experience determines how well elements such as layout, graphics, feature hierarchy and navigation combine to make a technology usable and painless.

As with any design practice applied to technology, user experience is a blend of both science and art. While drawing on scientific principles from the fields of cognitive psychology and human computer interaction, the creation of a positive user experiences requires both empathy and aesthetic sensibilities.

As technology becomes increasingly complex, so does the application of good user experience practices become more vital. Apple's continued success in the marketplace serves as an example that success need not hinge on superior hardware, but on the ability to imbue complex technologies with positive, personally rewarding user experiences.

User experience is also a major factor in the blogging and social media spheres: as the quantity, variety and interconnectedness of information increases, so does the importance of good user experience design in making said information more easily accessible. As information sharing becomes increasingly commoditized, the user experience of an online service can become its key differentiator.






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  • Galaxy S 4 “Nexus Experience” Device Really Just A Fine Tuned T-Mobile Version?


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    As Google surprised the Android world with the release of a “Nexus experience” Galaxy S 4 last week at Google I/O…questions arose about which model Galaxy S 4 it is? As it a new report from AnandTech suggests, the as of yet officially named Galaxy S 4 is a T-Mobile Galaxy S 4 hardware variant. The Galaxy S ...
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  • Review of VINE Using VINE: Um, Not So Much


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    With my premise that social media is about telling stories, I find it hard to imagine much good, story-rich, content being created in VINE. Doesnt the Instagram pic of the owl do enough? Do we need to see the VINE? Maybe. But, if people with iPhones (VINE is not available on Android or Win8 yet) needed a better way to ...
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  • Ericsson studies on people’s behaviors and values


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    Ericsson’s ConsumerLab studies people’s behaviors and values, including the way they act and think about ICT products and services. Here are some of their recent publications: How young professionals see the perfect company April 2013 A new study from Ericsson ConsumerLab called “Young professionals ...
    4 days ago

  • Erin’s gone Fishin’ with AdNews


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    As a User Experience designer for Deepend, I create user journeys for people I don’t know and who I may never meet, every day. My goal is to enable these users to interact with an interface with ease and intuition. However, what I had overlooked was the reality that these interfaces were not always in the digital ...
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  • Future of Interaction Design and User Experience


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    Not only is the importance of interaction design is increasing daily but also it has a significant role in shaping the upcoming technologies in interacting seamlessly with each other. This is all due to the increase of software applications in many different new industries. Eventually, both the physical and digital ...
    5 days ago

  • Technology & Education – Our Best Gift To Mothers And Mothers-To-Be


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    Many parts of the world are celebrating Mother’s Day today, even though Qatar celebrated it earlier already. It is meaningful to celebrate motherhood on a special dedicated day even though they work hard every single day, hour, and minute to ensure their children grow up to be smart, intelligent, caring and ...
    1 week ago

  • What You Can Do To Get The Best Design For Your Website


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    Your goal is a new website, but you need some help getting started. Having a website which can play videos and display photos is your goal, but making it a reality requires more knowledge than you have. This is where the website design tips presented in this article will become [...]
    1 week ago

  • Mozilla’s new UX Quarterly


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    Mozilla’s user experience research and design team has just published the first Mozilla UX Quarterly . Crystal Beasley, Editor and Product Design Strategist, writes: “My hope is that this will be a tool to spread throughout the community of Mozillians the empathy for our users we’ve gained through our ...
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  • UIE Book Corner: Margot Bloomstein’s “Content Strategy at Work”


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    [ Transcript Available ] Here at UIE we’ve amassed quite a library, and we’re adding to it all the time. One of the more recent additions is Margot Bloomstein’s book Content Strategy at Work . Margot is a fixture at conferences like Confab and the IA Summit. She’s also a veteran of our Virtual Seminar ...
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  • The mobile testing challenge: How to improve your UX and prepare for the future


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    July 9-10, 2013 San Francisco, CA Early Bird Tickets on Sale It’s one of the biggest headaches for mobile developers and organizations launching mobile initiatives, and one where the most capital can be wasted: mobile testing. Since testing can amount to as much as 10 percent of a mobile ...
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  • Bing Ads and You: Improve Your ROI Through Better Landing Page Relevance and User Experience


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    What is the difference between Landing Page Relevance and Landing Page User Experience? Why do you need to constantly improve both of them? In this post, I’ll answer these two questions but first, let me explain via example. When search users enter “golf vacations” and arrive at landing pages, two activities ...
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  • UXPA’s latest User Experience Magazine is freely available online


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    User Experience is the quarterly magazine of the UXPA, the User Experience Professional Association. From now on, each new issue is available online, in a responsive design so that you can read it on the desktop, tablet or handheld device with equal facility. Although a members-only magazine, UX PA has made the ...
    2 weeks ago

  • Giorgia Rossini’s top 10 UX portfolio tips


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    My name is Giorgia Rossini, my role at Futureheads is to advise the consultants on the best user experience candidates available in the marketplace. As a result I have already seen many portfolios. A more experienced consultant,  Andrew Rogers , has recently written a  very popular piece on CV tips and I wanted to ...
    2 weeks ago

  • Libraries: a canvas for creating meaningful UX


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    Amanda L. Goodman is the User Experience Librarian at Darien Library in Connecticut. In this article for UX Magazine, she writes about her experience as a librarian in the USA: “Across the country, libraries are providing services and crafting experiences that make patrons’ visits meaningful and pleasurable. The ...
    2 weeks ago

  • Mental model disconnection


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    I was looking up a website for a local bathroom renovation company. This image was on all their web pages: A cooktop and range hood just don’t fit my mental model of a bathroom, so I checked their entire website to see if they did kitchen renovations as well, and found NOTHING to indicate that they do. Their ...
    2 weeks ago

  • An Early Adopter’s View: Hands-On With ‘Google Glass’


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    If you’re one of these people who is seriously considering getting their hands on Google’s latest attempt to ‘cyborgify’ humanity , (eventually plunking down the $1,500 required in the process) , your first point of call may be to check out some first impressions from an early adopter. The ...
    2 weeks ago

  • Coldwater Creek


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    Right after I graduated college, I started investing in the stock market. I’ve more than doubled my money since then, which means that I made some pretty good decisions. One stock that I was considering at the time was CWTR. It was around $45 back then, and I thought that I had a few good reasons to believe that the ...
    2 weeks ago

  • Give Your Users What They Want: Understanding How People Read Online


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    How do people read online? They don’t – or at least they choose when they want to. Content marketing would suggest that you want to put all your content out on the web for your consumers to view.  In some cases, such as blogs and white papers, this approach is fine.  People who have come to absorb your ...
    2 weeks ago

  • Get User Experience Insights with YouEye


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    YouEye is looking to make a splash in the testing industry. The company, which was the winner of 2012’s Launch Conference Best Technology 2.0 Award, is an online user research platform that features remote usability testing with emotion recognition. As the company recently raised $3 million, it looks to disrupt ...
    2 weeks ago

  • New “Keyword Planner” Tool – Has Your Google Adwords Account Already Been Enabled ?


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    This article by Search Engine Land  gives you a detailed overview of the new Google Keyword Planner tool. (image by SearchEngineLand)  As mentioned in their article summary “The new Keyword Planner tool supports various workflows for building ad groups and … Continue reading →
    2 weeks ago

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