Rethinking Batman’s classic outfit in a user-centric way

OpenSource prototyping and user research tool.

A short activity to run early in a project or workshop, focused on sharing fears, anxieties, and uncertainties related to the workshop theme. The purpose is to create openness within a group. The stinky fish is a metaphor for "that thing that you carry around but don’t like to talk about; but the longer you hide it, the stinkier it gets." By putting stinky fish (fears and anxieties) on the table, participants begin to relate to each other, become more comfortable sharing, and identify a clear area for development and learning.

The Value Proposition Canvas is a tool which can help ensure that a product or service is positioned around what the customer values and needs.

Design Libs is your go-to reference for how to write and use some of the most common design thinking exercises, practices, and methods.

A remote user testing tool (recommended by Artur Puiste from UX Estonia at Nortal YourDesignWorks)

I'm very excited to announce a project on which I've been working for the past several months. It's called Markdown Mapper, and is a command-line utility, written in R (see below) and open-sourced under the GPLv2 license, that reverse-engineers concept maps from plaintext notes.

Thematic analysis is an accessible, flexible, and increasingly popular method of qualitative data analysis.
See also the same paper in Mendeley with highlights

Human-centered design is a practical, repeatable approach to arriving at innovative solutions. Think of these Methods as a step-by-step guide to unleashing your creativity, putting the people you serve at the center of your design process to come up with new answers to difficult problems.

This is the sixth post in a series on accessibility from Shopify’s UX team, published biweekly. Check out the introduction here. The need for accessibility is substantial: according to surveys, 22% of the population in USA, 13. via Pocket

Я продолжаю делиться опытом ошибок и находок в анкетных исследованиях. В первой статье я рассказала, как можно привлечь релевантных респондентов и увеличить возврат заполненных анкет.

Добрались руки до написания статьи о том, как делать дизайн непривычных вещей (например, проектировать навигацию станции метро).

When we examine the ethnographic interview as a speech event, we see that it shares many features with the friendly conversation. In fact, skilled ethnographers often gather most of their data through participant observation and many casual, friendly conversations. They may interview people without their awareness, merely carrying on a friendly conversation while introducing a few ethnographic questions.

What people say they believe and say that they do are often contradicted by their behavior. A large body of scientific literature documenting this disparity exists, and we can all likely summon examples from our own lives. Given the frequency of this very human inconsistency, observation can be a powerful check against what people report about themselves during interviews and focus groups.

The success of every business depends on how the business will meet their customers’ needs. To do that, it is important to optimize your offer, the website, and your selling methods so your customer is satisfied. The fields of online marketing, conversion rate optimization, and user experience design have a wide range of online tools that can guide you through this process smoothly. Many companies use only one or two tools that they are familiar with, but that might not be enough to gather important data necessary for improvement. To help you better understand when and which tool is valuable to use, I created a framework that can help in your assessment. Once you broaden your horizons, it will be easier to choose the set of tools aligned to your business’s needs. The tools can be roughly divided into three basic categories:

Remote studies allow you to recruit subjects quickly, cheaply, and immediately, and give you the opportunity to observe users as they behave naturally in their own environment. In Remote Research, Nate Bolt and Tony Tulathimutte teach you how to design and conduct remote research studies, top to bottom, with little more than a phone and a laptop.

Центр дизайна и мультимедиа НИУ ИТМО это современная площадка, занимающаяся коммерческой, учебной и научно-исследовательской деятельностью в следующих областях:
юзабилити-исследования, разработка и всесторонний анализ интерфейсов;
современные информационные технологии, средства информационного обеспечения, системы виртуальной реальности, мультимедиа и т.д.;
дистанционное образование.
http://www.ifmo.ru/ru/viewnews/5257/vypuskniki_novoy_magisterskoy_programmy_podruzhat_cheloveka_i_mashinu.htm

As the world deals with increasing complexity — in issues of sustainability, finance, culture and technology — business and governments are searching for a form of problem solving that can deal with the unprecedented levels of ambiguity and chaos. Traditional "linear thinking" has been disparaged by the popular media as being inadequate for dealing with the global economic crisis. Standard forms of marketing and product development have been rejected by businesses who need to find a way to stay competitive in a global economy. Yet little has been offered as an alternative. It is not enough to demand that someone "be more innovative" without giving him the tools to succeed.

Generative design research is an approach to bring the people we serve through design directly into the design process in order to ensure that we can meet their needs and dreams for the future. The book introduces an emerging domain of design that is of immense interest today not only to the academic design research community but also to those in the business community charged with the development of human-centred products, systems, services, and environments. There are no other books with this focus and coverage currently available.