Resources for Better Agile UX
Posted: November 23, 2009 Filed under: agile, research, training 1 Comment »Agile User Experience Projects
Nielsen | November 4, 2009
http://www.useit.com/alertbox/agile-user-experience.html
Agile Development Projects and Usability
Nielsen | November 17, 2008
http://www.useit.com/alertbox/agile-methods.html
Quick and Dirty Usability Testing: Step Away from the Book
Chisnell | October 20, 2008
http://www.uie.com/articles/usabilitytesting_dc
Agile Methods and User-Centered Design: How These Two Methodologies Are Successfully Integrated In Industry
Fox, Sillito, Maurer | Agile Conference 2008, Toronto
Weekly User Testing: TiVo Did It, You Can, Too
Nielsen | July 2008
http://www.useit.com/alertbox/weekly-usability-tests.html
Twelve Emerging Best Practices for Adding UX Work to Agile Development
Patton | June 2008
http://agileproductdesign.com/blog/emerging_best_agile_ux_practice.html
The Impact of Agile on UCD: Mixed Messages From a Before and After Survey
Barnum and Dayton | Usability Professionals’ Association Conference, Baltimore, Maryland | June 16-20, 2008
http://usability.spsu.edu/image_assets/agile.pdf
Making Usability Recommendations Useful and Usable
Molich, Jeffries, Dumas | August 2007
http://www.upassoc.org/upa_publications/jus/2007august/useful-usable.pdf
Adapting Usability Investigations for Agile User-centered Design
Sy | Journal of Usability Studies, v.2, n.3, May 2007
Clash of the Titans: Agile and UCD
Cecil | December 2006
http://www.uxmatters.com/mt/archives/2006/12/clash-of-the-titans-agile-and-ucd.php
User Experience Activities on Agile Development Projects
Ambler | October 2005
http://www.agilemodeling.com/essays/agileUsability.htm
Streamlining Usability Testing by Avoiding the Lab
Spool | May 25, 2005
http://www.uie.com/articles/streamlining_usability
UCD in Agile Projects: Dream Team or Odd Couple?
McInerney and Maurer | Interactions, v. 12, n.6, 2005
Case Study of Customer Input for a Successful Product
Miller | Proceedings of the Agile Development Conference, IEEE Computer Society, Washington, DC, 2005
Process Agility and Software Usability: Toward Lightweight Usage-Centered Design
Constantine | September 2002
http://www.foruse.com/articles/agiledesign.pdf
Agile Usability Yahoo! Group
http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/agile-usability/
Agile2009 Conference – UX Stage
http://agile2009.agilealliance.org/users
New Journal in Information Architecture
Posted: May 8, 2009 Filed under: research Leave a comment »From ASIS-l:
The Journal of Information Architecture inaugural Spring 2009 Issue, Issue 1, Volume 1, is now available online at http://journalofia.org/.
Table of Contents
Dorte Madsen
Editorial: Shall We Dance?
Gianluca Brugnoli
Connecting the Dots of User Experience
Helena Francke
Towards an Architectural Document Analysis
Andrew Hinton
The Machineries of Context
James Kalbach
On Uncertainty in Information Architecture
Issue 1, Volume 1 is an invited authors only issue and abstracts and full papers in PDF format are available at the Journal’s web site. Articles will be available as XHTML pages as well in the coming days.
The Call for Papers for the Autumn 2009 issue, Issue 2, Volume 1, is open and available at http://journalofia.org/cfp/.
The Journal of Information Architecture is an international
peer-reviewed scholarly journal whose aim is to facilitate the systematic development of the scientific body of knowledge in the field of information architecture.
This first issue is freely available to the public. Each subsequent current issue will be accessible first to Information Architecture Institute [http://www.iainstitute.org] members, while the archives will be available to everyone.
Journal of Information Architecture
New York Public Library’s online usability tool: Infomaki
Posted: April 3, 2009 Filed under: research, Tools & Deliverables Leave a comment »Came across the NYPL’s new online usability tool: Infomaki.
From the NYPL’s labs page:
“Our design sessions frequently result in debate about which of two words is more compelling or accurate for our users, or whether a particular button is noticeable in a particular location. When we can, we test designs on real people using paper or digital prototypes, but it is impractical to test every day; sitting down with real people is not always as simple as you’d expect, what with the schedules of busy New Yorkers…
So, we set out to create our own rapid-testing usability laboratory from scratch, and last Tuesday we launched it, in rough beta form. Nicknamed Infomaki, it’s showing a lot of potential even in its first 48 hours.
It’s not groundbreaking technology. Built on a Rails back-end (my rapid-prototyping framework of choice), it currently supports two kinds of tests: standard multiple choice (with optional “Other:” box) and a “Where would you click…?” screenshot that records click locations.”
Way more detail here: http://labs.nypl.org/2009/02/16/introducing-infomaki-bite-sized-usability-testing/
Try it out: http://usability.nypl.org/
(Via posts at IxDA /New York Public Library Digital Experience Group Labs)
10 Most Common Misconceptions about User Experience
Posted: January 14, 2009 Filed under: research 1 Comment »Whitney Hess just published an excellent post about User Experience and what it is/isn’t. Read the full post here. Read a follow-up by Eric Reiss on fatdux.com.
New Presentation on Information Architects
Posted: November 24, 2008 Filed under: research Leave a comment »‘Will the Real Information Architect Please Stand Up?’
Excellent presentation defining IAs – who they are and how they work/think.
