What is the best type of navigation for your website? With our 15 years of UX experience and many hours spent watching thousands of testers on hundreds of websites here are our thoughts.
- What are Personas
- What do personas 'look like'
- How do Personas help
- How Personas can be used
- How not to use the Personas
- In Conclusion...
- References
User-centred design puts the user at the heart of the design process so that the resulting product is easy to use. 'Personas' are a way of bringing the user alive - constantly reminding the development team who they are designing for. Personas, for developing web sites, have been around for a while and over the years we have seen both good and bad practice in the ways they are developed and used - so just how helpful are they?
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Topics: ux consultancy, usability, Blog, User Insights, Info Architecture, Usability Testing
There are now lots of ways to gain insight into the user experience:
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Topics: usability, Usability Testing
How many times have you tried using a website that just makes you want to give up?
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Topics: usability, Uncategorized, Views and News
We know budgets can be tight and often stretching to a fully-fledged usability project is just not achievable. For anyone in that boat, here are our top tips for running your own usability session on the cheap...
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Topics: usability, Usability Testing
Booking airline tickets, getting a mortgage, designing trainers or reading favourite news, chatbots are being used by customers for all sorts of things. But how might your organisation use one and where should you start?
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Topics: usability, Blog, Chatbots, Machine Learning, User Insights
Chatbot - user research and testing would make them better
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admin on Feb 1, 2018 2:36:37 PM
Most current chatbots are not very good. This makes it very easy for people to be sceptical about them and ignore the whole approach. However, this is often because the user’s needs were not fully understood or because they have not been adequately tested with users.
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Topics: ux consultancy, usability, Blog, Chatbots, Machine Learning, User Insights, Views and News, Usability Testing
You have probably heard the buzz about chat interfaces and artificial intelligence and how this is the next big thing. In this blog we try and explain what they are and why they probably do matter.
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Topics: ux consultancy, usability, Blog, Chatbots, Machine Learning, User Insights
How people interact with your organisation is likely to change radically over the next few years. The maturing of some key technologies, most notably machine learning and conversational interfaces, means your users may no longer be using your website.
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Topics: ux consultancy, usability, Blog, Usability Expert Advice, User Insights
Over the years we have undertaken usability testing on several University websites. I have blogged before about why so many University sites are so unusable, and concluded that the problems are primarily organisational not technical. Our recent experience seems to confirm that this is still the case.
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Topics: usability, Blog, User Insights, Usability Testing
