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


    Web Developer and Content Management Expert Duo Consulting — Authority Authority: 131
    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 ...
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  • 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 ...
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  • 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 →
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  • Tips for Effective Website Forms


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    Many websites use forms to collect information from visitors, but these forms have a low completion rate. Web users are extremely hesitant to put information on a form and hit submit because they don’t know where the information will go or how it will be used. Contact forms van be created build and earn trust ...
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  • UX Is about Much More than Making Stuff Look Pretty


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    Travis Lowdermilk (@tlowdermilk) is a software developer who recently joined Microsoft as UX Designer for Visual Studio. He hosts the Windows Developer Show and advocates for User-Centered Design (UCD). Travis is the author of User-Centered Design: A Developer’s Guide to …
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  • Fantasy Football & Mobile UX: Less is Not More


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    I’ve been a player of the Fantasy Premier League game for seven seasons now (in 2016 I’ll be having my fantasy testimonial!). The obsession started back when I was at university, and while many of my bad habits formed at uni have faded over time (such as drinking on a Sunday night, devouring greasy takeaways after ...
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  • Common usability errors to avoid at all costs


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    One of the most important tasks on your plate as a web designer is usability. Usability is defined as a gauge of the quality of the user’s experience when interacting with your website. Any website you design should always be seamless from the standpoint of the user. They should find your site easy to navigate ...
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  • et tu Apple?


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    No Apple, not you too. Really, no. You were supposed to be the good ones, the ones we user experience folks turned to when all around was chaos and disarray. Arguably, you were the company where user experience as a practice was born (all hail Don Norman). And now this. My recent experience with you, Apple, has lost ...
    1 week ago

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