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.
Choosing a good color scheme that follows best practices in design theory is a very important factor when creating a digital interface. It’s also important to design in ways that allow as many people as possible to access a product by taking into account the differing ways in which people perceive color. What is color […]
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Introduction In June 2018 the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) released the updated Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG 2.1). The W3C is the main international standards organization for the World Wide Web that develops protocols and guidelines that ensure long-term growth for the Web. It was founded by Tim Berners-Lee, the inventor of the
Do YouTube and Vimeo Meet WCAG 2.1 Keyboard Accessibility Guidelines? Read More »
WAVE is an automated web accessibility evaluation tool developed by WebAIM. WAVE can help developers, designers, and website users quickly evaluate the accessibility of web content after JavaScript and CSS has been applied. WAVE detects potential accessibility issues across a site as a whole, as well as highlight the areas where it does
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Introduction Computer-based devices are ubiquitous in our daily lives and most people interact with a computer interface with some regularity. But people are unique and people’s capabilities are different, and vision, hearing, and mobility disabilities are not uncommon. People with hearing and vision disabilities require alternatives for text and multimedia, and people with fine motor
Invisible Accessibility: Text Alternatives and Captions Read More »
Data privacy is a real concern and often, our data isn’t secure. Giant corporations like Facebook and Equifax are in the news for breaching the privacy of millions. Social security numbers, home addresses but also page likes, and page views are hacked, sold or leaked. As more of our lives are spent on the internet,
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When it comes to “LEGO”, what would you think of? Toy? Game? Or brick? Today I want to talk about a more “serious” side of LEGO – the LEGO® Serious Play®. It’s not a game, it’s a methodology from LEGO which uses LEGO bricks to improve creative thinking and develop problem-solving skills. In UX field,
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In the field of user experience, there is a wide range of research available, researchers mapped 20 methods across 3 dimensions: “Qualitative vs. Quantitative”, “Attitudinal vs Behavioral” and “Context of Use”. This article will focus on introducing the “Quantitative research” method, and in order to make it more clear, it will also compare it with
Quantitive Usability Read More »
User research has never been easy. Especially recruiting the right participants for a study is difficult. I remember the struggle I had recruiting participants to test my prototype several times. Life can be so much easier if someone or something can recruit the right participants for me. Ethnio is a tool for UX research which
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There are several ways to determine if the design of a website meets your pre-determined goals. One of the ways to determine this is with Clicktracking, similarly grouped with Clickmapping. With a small amount of Javascript placed into your website, you will have the ability to find out where on your site visitors are drawn,
Clicktracking: Putting the heat to the map Read More »
Summary This article briefly described the differences between qualitative and quantitative usability study methods, indicated that high cost is one of the disadvantages of quantitative methodologies, and introduced the System Usability Scale (SUS), which is a quick, efficient and reliable usability study method, and explained SUS’s working process. Quantitative Usability vs. Qualitative Usability The
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