UIE Brain Sparks
The latest insights from User Interface Engineering on the world of design. Shows include the SpoolCast, Userability, and Usability Tools Podcast.
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Erika Hall – Cultivating Shared Understanding from Collaborative User Research
Traditionally, user research has taken on more of a scientific ...
Traditionally, user research has taken on more of a scientific identity. You would do usability testing and research, take a ton of notes, and then compile all of your findings into a report. The effectiveness of that research depended on whether anyon...
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Nathan Curtis – Building Scalable Design Systems and Style Guides
The expansion of the web past a desktop-based world into ...
The expansion of the web past a desktop-based world into more of a multi-device ecosystem has caused organizations to re-evaluate almost everything they do. Style guides have had to grow to accommodate this new reality of multiple screens sizes and res...
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Jenn Lukas – Developing a Living Style Guide with CSS
The notion of being a “designer who can code” has ...
The notion of being a “designer who can code” has been a prevalent topic in recent years. Delivering static PDFs and working in photoshop is seen as inefficient in some circles. Being able to create a clickable or even responsive mockup to present to d...
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Kim Goodwin – Using Scenarios to Solve Problems
Understanding is what user experience as a field hinges upon. ...
Understanding is what user experience as a field hinges upon. After all if you don’t understand how users are interacting with your product or service, you don’t know what to design for. But how, as a team, do you come to that understanding?
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Marc Stickdorn – Service Design: Creating Delightful Cross-Channel Experiences
Service design seems to go by an increasing array of ...
Service design seems to go by an increasing array of names: Customer Experience, Cross-Channel UX, or even just “design thinking.” In most cases, these terms describe a holistic approach to your users’ and customers’ needs,
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A UX Advantage Podcast with Karen McGrane: Shifting To Continuous Deployment
The speed of Agile delivery fundamentally changes the work process ...
The speed of Agile delivery fundamentally changes the work process and puts new demands on the design cycle. What happens when the notion of deadline dates is replaced with a continual stream of experience enhancements by everyone in the organization?
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A UX Advantage Podcast with Karen McGrane: Why Marc Rettig?
There are always burning questions about how to get organizations ...
There are always burning questions about how to get organizations to be more design-centric and what better way to learn than from someone who has done it. Marc Rettig has been helping organizations make the transition for 30 years. In this podcast,
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A UX Advantage Podcast with Karen McGrane: Taking Advantage of Fear
The belief of public failure or marketplace irrelevance can drive ...
The belief of public failure or marketplace irrelevance can drive an organization to change. How does a UX leader exploit this corporate fear? What transforms the momentum from fear into positive change within the organization?
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Steph Hay – Designing with a Content-First Approach
Usability in products and websites is what most organizations strive ...
Usability in products and websites is what most organizations strive for. The more usable the product, the more likely that people will use it. Through research and testing, you can root out many issues with clunky interactions that hinder the experien...
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Jeff Gothelf – Discover What Customers Really Want with Lean UX
When some people hear the term Lean UX, they dismiss ...
When some people hear the term Lean UX, they dismiss it as simply a nouveau buzzword. There can be some confusion as to its relationship to Agile, both the methodology and the adjective. Some of the biggest resistance came from the idea that Lean UX wa...
