Anna Rouben

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User experience designer/user researcher


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Apr
15
 answered Is there a point to paginating articles online?
Apr
9
 comment Long page trend: effectiveness and guidelines
I don't have a specific website in mind. The question is about general guidelines. Once you have these guidelines, you can use them to determine whether the site justifies long page design. And also you will have a set of guidelines to make the long page more usable.
Apr
9
 comment Long page trend: effectiveness and guidelines
I am looking for some guidelines; the question you list doesn't really provide the guidelines.
Apr
8
 asked Long page trend: effectiveness and guidelines
Mar
27
 awarded  Yearling
Mar
26
 comment Borders editing control usability
+1, Agree with double click confusion and no need to show the look of the borders in the little rectangle. Other controls that are shown on the right of the control show the state already.
Mar
19
 comment How can I allow multiple and explicit filters
It would be great to add a little mockup to your answer
Mar
16
 awarded  Good Answer
Mar
12
 comment Rapid UI prototyping for consumer product
The person is looking for a physical product design tool not mobile, web...
Mar
6
 answered Should scrolling be disabled when there are no items to scroll to?
Mar
6
 answered Avoiding designing by committee
Mar
5
 comment Flow of Dynamic Grid
+1 very nice answer with examples, and a really good point about serendipity
Mar
4
 comment If you can't improve loading time, is distracting the user a good technique?
Hipmunk hipmunk.com does a nice job with animation: cute chipmunk flying and on ipad they give you tips about using their product. Cute and informative at the same time.
Mar
1
 comment Is it better to represent simple labeled information as table or just text with subheadings?
Do your users need to have ability to sort or filter? And what are you expecting users to do with this information? If it's to find the best price, table view might be easier to scan since you will have all prices grouped together and labels will not interfere with scanning.
Mar
1
 comment Is it better to represent simple labeled information as table or just text with subheadings?
Usually you would want to make the best decision for the users without asking them an extra question in the product. Although I am not sure if you are suggesting a study where you ask users preference. If that's the case, you have to be very careful with user preferences because often what users say may not match how they will perform with certain UI choice.
Mar
1
 accepted Brief and effective way to present usability study results
Feb
28
 comment Brief and effective way to present usability study results
Usually I include the following: who the participants are and how many, tested tasks and scenarios, overall perceptions of the system by the participants (actual user comments), a table with usability issues, recommendations, and some user comments, Appendix that includes notes for each session. Currently it's 46 pages which is way too long. I am working on creating something much shorter highlighting the most important things.
Feb
28
 asked Brief and effective way to present usability study results
Feb
28
 accepted Usability results: 5 users fly through UI, 1 user fails. What to do?
Feb
28
 awarded  Nice Question
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