We’re looking for an amazing Digital Media Intern for a paid, 3-month internship. Fast Forward Three Months… We’d like to thank you for doing a fantastic job as our Digital Media Intern. You’ve doubled the number of podcasts we’ve been publishing, making them sound better than ever. We were stunned at how quickly you learned [...]

As part of our research to understand what techniques truly help teams produce better designs, we’re still constantly surprised by the number of teams successfully using personas. With personas, teams report that they are producing more usable designs that better match the needs of their audience, increasing the satisfaction of their users. When teams use [...]

“Holy Cow! Are you serious? I can’t believe I won it! My work colleague is extremely jealous!” Those are the exact words from Donna Krainert when we told her she is the newest member of the UI15 Apple iPad club. She and Jennifer Cooper, winner from week 1, can now take copious notes at UI15 [...]

We all use stories to communicate, explore, persuade, and inspire. In user experience, stories help us better understand our users, learn about their goals, explain our research, and demonstrate our design ideas. Basing stories on fact (data or knowledge embedded in your organization, or even new information) will help you communicate your own ideas effectively. [...]

One of the common traps I see UX professionals fall into is believing there’s a right way and a wrong way to design things. We get too dogmatic, convincing ourselves there is a single ‘best practice’ that will yield the best results. Many of us are not open to the idea that different contexts and [...]

Right now Jennifer Cooper is doing the happy dance. Why? She just found out she won the first User Interface 15 Apple iPad give-away. And you too can win your very own iPad. Here’s how. With 3 more opportunities for the Apple iPad, you can still get in on the next drawing. If you’re thinking [...]

Announcing the first UIE Book Club: Kristina Halvorson’s Content Strategy UIE Book Club: Kristina Halvorson’s Content Strategy August 3, 2010 August 17, 2010 2pm ET / 1pm CT / 11am PT Interested? Sign up here so we get a sense as to how many are joining us. Note: Due to a conflict from an already [...]

Do you have iPad envy? Wishing you had one of these beauties to watch videos, read books, do work, and take with you to the User Interface 15 conference? We can fix that. We’re giving away 4 of the most wanted, hard to come by items around – the Apple iPad. Anyone who registers for [...]

30 years ago, I conducted my first usability study. The lab we had— the first ever built for this purpose— was the size of a janitor’s closet (because it was a converted janitor’s closet) and was packed with more than $20,000 of video equipment (because that’s what a simple camera and editing system cost then). [...]

This week, calling in from beautiful Salt Lake City, Utah, is Grady Kelly. Grady is inspired by Seth Godin’s new book, Linchpin. He wants to know how UX professionals can work to become indispensable team members and not just another cog in the machine.