The next Northern User Experience event will be on Monday 24 January at Simple Usability in Leeds. We have three great sessions lined up: 1. Remote Usability Testing 2. Brainstorming of ideas for upcoming NUX sessions 3. Interaction Architecture for Startups and Digital Agencies Tickets from http://nux.eventbite.com/
Continue Reading →June 2010 Event Report – Discount Usability Testing
Report on the June 2010 event of Northern User Experience. The event took place in Leeds, and the main them was discount usability testing.
Continue Reading →Eye-tracking studies: more than meets the eye
There is an interesting eye tracking story over on the Google Blog, covering their results from some usability studies they carried out. Specifically: eye tracking to test the use of thumbnails in search results. Though the blog report is fairly brief, they did come to specific conclusion. Our studies showed that the thumbnails did not […]
Continue Reading →Critical Friend
We talked a little in Wednesday’s (July 2nd) meeting about the lack of recognised qualifications to audit or certify a web site as “accessible”. I recalled a customer of my company had asked about the use of a “trusted friend”. Alas, my recollection was faulty and the phrase they had used was “critical friend”. It […]
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 […]
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