The June meeting took the group to Leeds, and Tero’s talk on how we define User Experience (slides to follow). In a free-roaming discussion we talked about the interplay between the various building blocks of user experience (usefulness, usability, desirability, findability, value, credibility), the value and pitfalls of metrics and the mysteries of brand loyalty. A big thanks to Tero for […]
Continue Reading →Next meeting on the 4th June
The next meeting will take place on the 4th June, 6.30pm onwards at the Orange offices in Leeds. Agenda: Presentation: “User Experience: a definition and discussion” – Food for thought on what are the elements that make up a good user experience to start a discussion. (Tero Väänänen) Blog & mailing list update & discussion […]
Continue Reading →Ideas for Next Meeting 4th June
The next meeting will take place at the Orange offices in Leeds. A big thanks to Tero for fixing that up. We haven’t agreed the content yet, but quite a few ideas came out of yesterday’s session. Looking at my notes we have the following candidates: Problem Solving Personas (Judith?) Something about marketing and its […]
Continue Reading →Is Usability Relevant?
I saw this on Boxes and Arrows “- Journey to the Center of Design – Jared Spool There’s a growing sentiment that spending limited resources on user research takes away from essential design activities. Is it time for user- centered design to evolve into something else? Or is there something else happening in our world […]
Continue Reading →The future of interfaces
As some of you already know, I’m a big fan of the idea of minority report style interfaces, and the Nintendo Wii. This guy has done some work with wiimotes to create cheap interfaces such as this Desktop VR display. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jd3-eiid-Uw I’d like to start a thread on here about how we could approach the […]
Continue Reading →