UX: user experience
- What is UX : user experience?
- Generally users don’t go to websites to look at the design, they go for information or to complete a task so the user experience is paramount. UX Mastery (http://uxmastery.com) have compiled a fun, visual video explaining the what, how and why of UX design.
- What does UX include?
- • Information Architecture • Content • Navigation • Accessibility • Design • Benchmarking • CMS evaluations • Wireframes • Accessibility • User needs analysis • User testing
- Who should be involved in the UX : user experience process?
- • Stakeholders • Users • Marketing • Technology
- What makes UX so important?
- On a recent NN/g independent usability test of 60 sites with 24 participants 40% of those tested failed the task due to findability issues such as site structure, label names, navigation and links.
- 83% of the reasons that users trusted the website were due to content.
- UX terms, what do they mean?
- Usability First have a very comprehensive glossary of UX terms.
- Reading
- Don't Make Me Think: A Common Sense Approach to Web Usability - Steve Krug
- Designing Web Usability - Jakob Nielsen
- Web Site Usability Handbook - Mark Pearrow
- Homepage Usability: 50 Websites Deconstructed - Jakob Nielsen & Marie Tahir
- Content Strategy for the Web - Kristina Halvorson
- Hot Text – Web Writing That Works - Jonathan and Lisa Price
- IA Information Architecture for the World Wide Web - O'Reilly
- Research
- UX Groups
- UX Australia holds workshops and conferences on all things UX - UX Australia
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