User Centred

What went wrong in Nokia from the UX perspective?

Giorgio Venturi — Fri, 23 Jul 2010 16:08:15 +0000

I was left with mixed feelings after reading the latest article related to the latest book about Nokia's crisis, New Nokia - the manuscript. The Register has made an interview of the author. One of the critiques of the author is to the Contextual Design approach. . . . → Read More: What went wrong in Nokia from the UX perspective?

Illustrator template for iPhone design

Giorgio Venturi — Mon, 28 Jun 2010 16:55:03 +0000

I recently worked on a couple of user experience specifications for mobile applications with Adobe InDesign and Illustrator and, while I found many resources for Omnigraffle, I couldn’t find anything for Illustrator. Most of the stuff I found was for Omnigraffle. I never particulary liked Omnigraffle , so I sticked to Illustrator and Indesign. There are . . . → Read More: Illustrator template for iPhone design

A ‘Step backwards for Gestural Interfaces’ or for the NN’s Group?

Giorgio Venturi — Wed, 23 Jun 2010 16:18:54 +0000

Just finished reading the article Gestural Interfaces: A Step Backwards In Usability by Donald Norman and Jakob Nielsen. I would suggest reading the article before reading my critique below.

My immediate gut feeling was that their article didn’t hit the mark this time. Despite my admiration for Donald Normand and sharing a similar (HCI) background with both of . . . → Read More: A ‘Step backwards for Gestural Interfaces’ or for the NN’s Group?

Google, Apple and their mobile user experience: Twitter review

Giorgio Venturi — Tue, 20 Apr 2010 08:46:45 +0000

A look at last month tweets . . . → Read More: Google, Apple and their mobile user experience: Twitter review

A remote change for user research?

Giorgio Venturi — Thu, 27 Nov 2008 15:55:04 +0000

What happens when we can carry out user research and testing remotely? Do we need to change the way we work?

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 service based here in London. This experience led me to many . . . → Read More: A remote change for user research?

User Centred at a Glance

Giorgio Venturi — Mon, 20 Oct 2008 14:15:43 +0000

Tag clouds have never been particularly useful... they give 'at a glance' view of the content of a website, but they have very little potential for wayfinding... try even finding the link to your own bookmarks in a Del.icio.us tag cloud - presenting categories and subcategories is more effective. . . . → Read More: User Centred at a Glance

Why doing user research first is right

Giorgio Venturi — Tue, 15 Jul 2008 22:51:04 +0000

I have found an interesting column from Donald Norman about how the role of user research in the software/web development process, though I have to say that I find the premise of his quite contentiious. I agree with him when he says that lengthy, time-consuming field work must take place before the project starts, but even with the ball running and in a limited time frame it is possible to know a lot about the users. . . . → Read More: Why doing user research first is right

Why Forrester got it wrong on User Experience?

Giorgio Venturi — Fri, 09 May 2008 11:54:00 +0000

Features and patterns should never be the primary focus of a User-centred Experience Design process. We should rather research on user most frequent tasks before jumping into designing RIAs (Rich-Internet Applications). In a nutshell, before looking at your patterns library, get to know users and tasks! . . . → Read More: Why Forrester got it wrong on User Experience?

UX Trends in the 2007 UPA Salary

Giorgio Venturi — Fri, 22 Feb 2008 00:43:21 +0000

I just found a fresh UPA 2007 salary survey out in my mailbox… there are a couple of interesting thoughts that I would like to share with you.

First of all, the survey has a quite a large sample: 1523 people answered to the survey, with the vast majority in US (999) and then the other countries: . . . → Read More: UX Trends in the 2007 UPA Salary

Case study: the Heathrow Airport Redesign

Giorgio Venturi — Mon, 15 Oct 2007 17:29:34 +0000

Oh, yeah! After months of work on this project (me, Jonathan, Igor and all the DLKW team) finally the Heathrow website is online! Most of the IA work we carried out on the Shop & Eating section is already visible, while all the other work will be visible in a few months only, with Release 2.

While . . . → Read More: Case study: the Heathrow Airport Redesign