I’m very excited about our upcoming Virtual Seminar presented by my good friend, Larry Constantine. If your team is facing an aggressive deadline for your web site or product launch and you don’t have the time or resources to conduct in-depth user research, you’ll want to gather everyone around for Larry’s presentation on September 27th. [...]

UIEtips 8/07/07: Web 2.0 — The Power Behind the Hype
Over the past few years, the world of web application development has seen the emergence of a new set of approaches such as APIs, RSS, and Folksonomies that have come to be known collectively as Web 2.0. These new approaches allow developers to easily create [...]

Ashley McKee recommends an article by Lisa Reichelt that explores the not-so-obvious benefits of personas.

If your team is considering personas or would like to know how to make them better, you’ll want to gather everyone around for Steve’s seminar on the 24th. It’s a cost-effective way to get a good discussion going.

Joshua Porter talks about the debate around simplicity and how this will affect each of us as we balance new functionality requests.

For our recent Field Studies Virtual Seminar attendees and anyone interested in learning more about Field Research, here is Kate Gomoll’s list of resources on Field Studies. You can also expect a new UIE Research Report detailing the ins and outs of the entire Field Study process from Kate and her colleagues, Ellen Story Church [...]

UIEtips 3/13/07: Field Studies: The Best Tool to Discover User Needs Jared Spool talks about why field studies are the most powerful user research technique for successful design teams.

Field Studies: The Ultimate Tool in Your Usability Toolbox
Live: March 20, 2007 (1pm ET / Noon CT / 11am MT / 10am PT)
We’ve invited Kate Gomoll, one of my most favorite people in the entire world, to talk on a topic she knows tons about: conducting field studies.
The virtual seminars have been a great way [...]

There are still some seats available for Friday’s UIE Virtual Seminar, Demystifying Usability Testing: Learning the Basics. Christine Perfetti has been busy putting the finishing touches on her presentation and, if I say so myself, it’s one of the best we’ve ever done.

UIEtips 1/30/07: Streamlining the Design Process with Paper Prototyping: An Interview with Carolyn Snyder UIE’s Ashley McKee recently sat down with Carolyn Snyder, author of Paper Prototyping, and founder of Snyder Consulting, to get answers to some of the most pervasive questions surrounding paper prototyping.