A remote change for user research?

Thursday, November 27th, 2008

What happens when we can carry out user research and testing remotely? Do we need to change the way we work? When a Stranger Calls rip The answer to this question is: "No". I recently had a chance of carrying out a research and usability testing consulting for a keyword research ...

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iPhone virtual keyboard leads to poor user experience

Tuesday, August 19th, 2008

[caption id="" align="alignleft" width="199" caption="iPhone Virtual keyboard"][/caption] Eventually, there is sound evidence validating my first impressions of the virtual keyboard of the iPhone: Although iPhone users were able to text as quickly as QWERTY-keyboard owners, iPhone typists made more than twice as many errors. Even worse, many of these errors were left ...

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Why doing user research first is right

Wednesday, July 16th, 2008

I have found an interesting column from Donald Norman Mickey's Once Upon a Christmas rip Gosford Park release Big Wednesday trailer about how the role of user research in the software/web development process, though I have to say that I disagree with the premise of his article ...

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