Aquiring, improving or adapting skills, knowledge or preferences.
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42answers
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Must-read User Interface Book? [closed]
I'm looking for a book that explains the basics of user interfaces and user experiences. I read Beautiful Visualization and Designing Interfaces from O'Reilly and I think they are very good. Can you ...
42
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16answers
4k views
Which are the best UI related blogs/sites? [closed]
This goes along the lines of the Must-read UI books. I haven't found too many blogs/sites that are aimed exclusively to this topic that are good resources for UI, so I hope you can recommend a few ...
37
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8answers
2k views
As a programmer, how do I move into User Experience Design?
I've been a developer for over 6 years, mainly working in the web context, and generally distributed applications, services, and also front-facing apps. I got into programming originally through ...
18
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8answers
554 views
How valuable is studying cognitive psychology for UX?
I am starting my second year in grad school and thinking about what to study. One thing that I know is good to have a grasp of is cognitive psychology. But I would like to get someones perspective.
...
16
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8answers
888 views
Where can I find problems to challenge my UI design skills?
I'm still in the beginnings of my career as a programmer, and have always thought I was more interested in low-level back-end type stuff. However, having done a few projects lately on my own, I've ...
12
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7answers
577 views
Can anyone recommend some good podcasts on user experience design? [closed]
I'm at the early stages of learning about this field, and it would be great to listen to some good podcasts on the subject.
Ideally I want to listen to some UX experts getting deep into their ...
9
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7answers
1k views
What do I need to know to get started as a professional UX/interaction designer?
I am a student of Software Engineering (mainly focusing on Requirements Engineering). I am a beginner in the field of UX. There already are a few questions on this forum regarding books etc. Still, I ...
6
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2answers
939 views
Under what circumstances will vertical or horizontal navigation work better?
I have just started taking UX classes and am designing my first e-commerce webpage. I was wondering what type of navigation works better for users? Do users prefer eBay's vertical navigation ...
6
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3answers
146 views
Teaching HCI to graphic design students
I'll be teaching an undergrad course in HCI to graphic design students.
I'm looking for assignment ideas.
The assignment should lend itself to research by the students, and be inspiring enough to keep ...
6
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1answer
206 views
How should I go about finding a UX mentor?
There seems to be a lot of evidence that having a mentor is crucial to career success and even more important when transitioning between careers. I've read that social networking sites - twitter & ...
5
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7answers
719 views
What is the best (& quickest!) way to learn wire framing?
I need to get-up to wire-framing speed! What's the easiest way to learn? I have a good understanding of the concepts as a content manager, but my next role requires these additional skills.
5
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2answers
284 views
What guidelines are there for programmers wanting to learn UI skills?
Design and programming seem to be two different disciplines. But as a programmer myself, I really want to have some UI skills too. But I feel at a loss because delving into a different industry can ...
5
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2answers
258 views
What are the best UX seminars in USA, for beginners? [closed]
I am pretty new to the whole UX realm of things and I am in the process of hiring an employee to manage the UX of the e-commerce sites I own. I know it's necessary to get a UX employee since I have ...
4
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3answers
233 views
How can I convince my coworkers that there is a difference between usability and graphic design or QA testing?
This has started to drive me absolutely insane. They give the UI straight to the graphic designers right out of the gate, then hand it over to us developers to implement. The closest I can get to ...
4
votes
3answers
119 views
usability training sessions
I have been asked to run a 0.5 day training course into 'usability' for a client and I am trying to distil all my years of experience into something non-rambling and simple; something that captures ...
4
votes
1answer
94 views
Teaching SMS sending procedure in mobile
We are working on an SMS based reporting project where the people with age 30-60 will be sending SMS reports. Apart from the complexity of the SMS structure, one of the major issues I have faced ...
3
votes
6answers
458 views
Teaching UX theory to beginners [closed]
What are the top UX theories to teach to beginners in the field?
What are the basics no designer could go without knowing?
For example: fitts law, hicks law, principles of gestalt, concept of ...
2
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2answers
144 views
Is it necessary to tell users that Usability was improved?
I'm about to release a polished version of a multiple-window gui-application I wrote years ago. I improved usability a lot (it was BAD!), with which i mean stuff like:
fixing tiny errors in ...
2
votes
2answers
126 views
“Pharma” UX Model? [closed]
Is there any known "Pharma" like UX examples or flows out there in the digital world?
Example: Doctor recommends a drug to a patient, hands off prescription to receptionist to make a copy. ...
2
votes
2answers
116 views
Would doing freelance usability testing help me learn more about UX?
I am looking into joining the following services:
UserFeel - (http://www.userfeel.com/)
Analysia - (http://www.analysia.com/Index.asp)
I want to make some income on the side while looking for more ...
2
votes
2answers
202 views
Learning Curves on experimental sketches.
This is my first shot at UIs.
I drew some sketches of a web browser that combines a menu button with the title bar. I placed the menu button beside the MMC (Minimize-Maximize-Close) buttons, puts ...
1
vote
3answers
236 views
Learning about usability [closed]
I am very interested in user interface design and improving the user's experience. Therefore, I am thinking of moving my career in the direction of usability. I would like to try to teach myself as ...
1
vote
0answers
167 views
How do I learn how to design webpages?
As a developer, I love writing code, and I like to think I'm fairly good at it.
However, my chosen field is Web Development, which almost always requires the developer to also act as designer.
I can ...
0
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0answers
36 views
Finding internships in Sydney [closed]
I'm interested in UX design/research internships or volunteer work in Sydney.
Can anyone suggest some resources to get me started?
0
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1answer
170 views
Is there a scale to measure ones proficiency in software? [closed]
I've often wondered why there is no general scale to visually show a persons proficiency in technology/hardware/software. Is there such a thing?
Something like... I could fill-out a questionnaire ...
