for questions that specifically ask about academic papers or other scientific research
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5answers
592 views
Why Not Use a Real Person as a Persona?
My understanding of UX Personas is that they're descriptions of fictitious people designed to represent the common traits and attributes of a broader audience demographic.
If that's the case, in what ...
2
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1answer
83 views
What are your favorite usability research mailing lists? [closed]
I'm a researcher at university and my focus is mainly on usability issues of certain software solutions, for example in the field of IT-security, user authentication, and privacy enhancing ...
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8answers
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Should we provide “back” button for mobile website?
In mobile website for all smartphones (iPhone, Android, Blackberry, Windows phone 7), should I provide a "Back" button inside the webpage even when the browser has functionality to go to back?
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7
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1answer
167 views
Quoting time and effort for UX research
Edit : I've added a little more detail to the main question here.
There are many techniques and practices at our disposal to gain an understanding of the target audiences motivations and needs when ...
4
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2answers
458 views
Best practices for applying user achievements to business applications
I've read over a few papers projects and related to the use of video game style achievements being put into regular applications as a means to encourage users to explore the tools and create a desire ...
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10answers
2k views
How does Gamification change User Behavior?
On Location Based Applications the use of Gamification is essential. As you move along and check in you earn badges and points. Users also find themselves in a leader board, which most certainly ...
4
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5answers
191 views
Citation for the proposition “flashing boxes on the screen are annoying”
It seems self-evident that one should not put a large box on the screen and then change its dominant color frequently (i.e. make it flash) because it's very hard to ignore and will irritate people, ...
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5answers
351 views
Any value to gathering qualitative data from card sorts?
One of the best tools I've found for card sort experiments seems to be websort, mainly because you can just send out a link for participants to go through the exercise at their own convenience.
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2
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3answers
454 views
Relationship between Front-End Dev and Interaction Design [closed]
[I am not changing the original question as there are valuable answers here. but the research I was conducting is now finished and results are published here
and http://hci.me.uk/jqueryperformance/
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7answers
5k views
To use or not to use “Zebra Stripes”, or Alternating Row Colors for Tables
Is there any research out there showing whether or not alternating the row colors for a table increases/impedes the time it takes to parse information? An example can be found at the following ...
11
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7answers
831 views
Academic Papers about UI [closed]
Are there any academic papers (thesis, dissertations, etc.) that discusses topics about User Interfaces? Best if you post links.
I am just curious if such topics are accepted for research...
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3answers
338 views
How to visualize a calendar with a vast amount of recurring events?
Many of the events are recurring daily or weekly but are only interesting to the user once.
7
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3answers
384 views
Gender considerations in web usage
Are there particular gender differences in web usage/preferences? I'm about to start designing an information-based site with a predominantly female audience. I was wondering what research already ...
4
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3answers
396 views
How to collect and then extract user's behavior patterns
I have some SDI windows forms application. This application has main form, a huge of module forms. At the same time I can view one module form and many it's sub modal forms. So, every module form is ...
7
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4answers
355 views
Usability testing for open-source projects?
I'm working (slowly) on an open-source project, and I was hoping to do some usability testing once it's a bit further along. Also, hopefully the GIMP devs will notice this question ;-). I'm not sure ...
7
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4answers
141 views
How do you track new feature/product adoption?
Huzzah! You just launched your brand new feature/product X. You've been working on it for months, usability tested the crap out of it, and feel really good about how it all came together.
After a few ...
18
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7answers
227 views
What's the biggest surprise you've had in a usability test? [closed]
Usability tests often present some real surprises where the participant's mental model does not match what they're presented with.
What are the biggest or most interesting surprises you've come ...
10
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4answers
140 views
Keyboard navigation versus mouse navigation
The project: We're designing software that users will use all day long to perform 12 repetitive tasks. Each task has many steps and takes place in a different pane in the GUI. Some of the GUI is ...
9
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6answers
51 views
How do you find the balance between what the users' want and what the clients want?
You all know that project...
After months of research, wireframing, prototyping, testing and workshops, there is that one client (normally the MD) that comes in at the end and knows everything better ...
6
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3answers
255 views
Tips for ethnography
I'm doing my first ethnographic study next week and I was wondering if anyone had any tips, specifically for studying how people use things in their homes.
Are there any common pitfalls? Any good ...
9
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8answers
201 views
Participant recruitment agencies - recommendations [closed]
Can anyone recommend a good recruitment agency for sourcing participants for UT?
I've used Saros, Criteria and Qualtel recently (London / South East England), they've all been OK, but I thought it'd ...
12
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1answer
125 views
What successful/well known companies have a VP UX? [closed]
I want to research companies who value UX so much that they have their own executive arm within the company.
I've found these companies so far:
Wells Fargo
Yahoo
Intuit
Google
TiVo
Palm
Ebay
SAP
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