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Ava is an app designed to empower people who are deaf or hard of hearing. It allows them to follow conversations in real time. The app is available on AppStore and PlayStore, and is web optimisable as well. People with a hearing disability may find it challenging to keep up with conversations, especially in a […]
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Eventbrite.com is a website for event planning, management, and ticketing. Eventbrite provides users with multiple services. Users can browse events, buy tickets to participate in events and create their own events. Home Page > Search Events On top of the home page of Eventbrite.com, it is the navigation bar. The navigation bar has the affordances
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A chatbot is an artificial intelligence that provides the conversational interface to aid users with a set of tasks through text or audio. It was first introduced in 1950. Alan Turing, an English mathematician and computer scientist, outlined the Turing artificial intelligence test in his paper “Computer Machinery and Intelligence” (Dermoudy, 2018). The recent blooming of
Chatbots in our life: How to design a chatbot? Read More »
In this blog, “Cookie” is not the term for the product that people can easily find in grocery stores. The term “Cookie” that I am going to talk about in this blog is a computer science term to describe a small piece of data sent from website and stored in user’s local drive by the
Usability Ethics — Privacy Concern and Cookies Consent Read More »
UX KPIs UX KPIs means key performance indicators of user experience, which helps to reflect the overall goal of a product or a website. With UX KPIs, user experience becomes tangible and measurable. UX KPIs are divided into two main categories, which are behavioral UX KPIs and Attitudinal UX KPIs. Behavioural UX KPIs measure what
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Service Safari is an exploration of service from a customer experience perspective. This methodology is commonly used by service designers; however, recently ux designers have been using this methodology to help them in their early research phase.
Introduction to Service Safari Read More »
Getting feedback from a diverse group of people is important in creating a product that functions for all people. Accessibility should be thought about from the beginning of creation for every website and ADA guidelines should be followed. However, accessibility needs to be tested for throughout the entire process to ensure that the measures being
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Design Critique: The Brooklyn Public Library (Website) The Brooklyn Public Library ‘s website is a place where patrons can go to do research, borrow books and register to attend special events amongst many other resources. This evaluation will critique the Brooklyn Public Library’s website based on core usability factors. Visibility: “More options” Navigating websites can
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This summer I’ll be teaching a course called “Projects in Information Experience Design” as part of the UX Advanced Certificate program but open to all School of Information students. In this course, students will work with the Intrepid Sea, Air, and Space Museum to help them understand and improve the visitor experience. Throughout the course-long project, students will employ a range
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I’m excited to announce a new course I’ll be teaching this summer called “Advanced User Experience Design.” This course picks up from where LIS-643 Information Architecture and Interaction Design leaves off by going into greater depth about the core skills of UX design, including fundamentals of information and visual/communications design, advanced wireframing techniques and user journey
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