What does an information experience design toolkit look like? Posts in this category describe, analyze, critique, and/or discuss emerging or established tools, techniques, methods, and approaches that inform or facilitate the design of great experiences.
Word clouds — a form of “tag clouds” — are visual representations of the prominent word choices in a selected text. The relative importance of a term is indicated by the weight of the font: the more often it appeared in the original source, the larger the word appears in the graphic “cloud.” This “Web […]
Word Clouds in Four Steps: the Good, the Bad and the Ugly Read More »
What is Pure Methodology and why is it important? While interning with Techsmith this summer, I got the opportunity to participate in a usability evaluation method called Pure (Pragmatic Usability Rating by Experts) Methodology. This was my first experience participating in PURE usability evaluation method and found the method to be very productive
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Introduction “Fail early, fail often”, a quote extremely relevant to the field of User Experience due to the fact that following such a modus operandi is essential for making swift iterative improvements to products. Mockups and wireframes are great tools that assist in rapid-prototyping, due to their lower level of detail and simpler construction. While
My Experience with Balsamiq Mockups – A Rapid Wireframing Tool Read More »
I learned the user story mapping when I worked as a product design intern at a startup company. They used this method to build their products. I think it is really a powerful technique that helps to organize what functionalities we need to build for users and also serves a good communication between team members. For
A Snapshot of Entire Product—User Story Mapping Read More »
Introduction Affinity Designer came out in 2014. It features a set of smooth, fast and precise graphic design tools. It has been improving and adding more interesting functionalities in 4 years. Now, it can be not only an equivalent but also a strong competitor of Adobe Illustrator. As an interaction designer, we might also want to
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INTRODUCTION During my Projects in IXD class last week, I presented a live walkthrough of some of Adobe XD’s most useful features and design modes, all in seven minutes. I wanted to share the ease of which one can learn Adobe’s design tool and how smoothly the program carries out complex tasks in the blink
Adobe XD Design Tool: A Brief Overview and Helpful Features Read More »
Another mapping technique to get into the head and feelings of a user to better understand problems and begin finding solutions. There are a number of mapping techniques out there for UX people to use and learn about user behavior such as story mapping and journey mapping. And these are very effective in identifying
Empathy Mapping: Getting into the User’s Head Read More »
Introduction Emotions instinctually influence our behaviors and every day decisions. As such, emotions are a great way to understand users’ interactions with products and it helps to inform our designs. But how can we measure emotion? As the greatest expression of emotion can be seen on our faces, Facial Expression Analysis is a great method
Facial Expressions Analysis: How does it work? Read More »
Introduction It is always significant to make users delightful when engaging with the products, however, it can be extremely challengable either to measure their emotional reactions towards products or to prioritize them. This is where Kano Model comes into play, which is used for measuring desirability of different product features. This post will breifly introduce this method
Delight Users with Kano Model Read More »
Image Credit: MIT News Think about the apps, websites, and other digital products that we encounter everyday. How do we feel when using them? Have we been pleased by some of them while annoyed by others? Are we aware of our reactions and behaviors when such feelings occur? Think of the times when we have the
Measuring and Detecting Emotions: Do We Really Know How You Feel? Read More »