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Interview – Claire Sadler on the UX Job Market
We speak to Claire Sadler (@ClaireSadler13) from Cogs Agency in Shoreditch, London, UK about the state of the UX Job market, employment trends and salaries. Like a flame to the UX moth nation of London, Claire has been recruiting for UXers for 3 years How have you seen the UX job market moving in the last…
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Interview – Caroline Jarrett on Form Design and Usability
Disclosure: This post contains some links (marked with *) on which a small commission is earned. Read full disclosure policy. We speak to Caroline Jarrett – one of the leading figures in form design and usability and author of Forms that Work: Designing Web Forms for Usability * What is the most common usability problem…
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The Psychology of Slacktivism
I was travelling on the tube (the subway for our American readers) the other day and caught a glimpse of a new fundraising campaign by Macmillian Cancer Support called ‘Shave or Style‘. Normally when you think of fundraising campaigns you think of things like cycling across Europe, climbing a mountain or something vaguely challenging. I…
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The importance of user testing nothing
When we design sites it’s all to easy to add various elements to the interface simply because it’s a ‘best practice’, something which has worked in the past or just something you feel you should do to aid the user. The problem with doing this is we never discover what the true needs of the…
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The UX of sound – designing audio experience
The web is a very quiet place these days. Gone are the days of dodgy auto-playing midi tunes from the Geocities era or loud over the top flash splash screens. I can’t say I miss these aspects of the web particularly and they certainly weren’t great examples of enhancing user experience with sound – but…
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Design experiences not sites – lessons learnt by a visual designer
I used to be one of the visual designers who thought I could design a website in a few days. For an experienced designer, it’s not too difficult to put a few concepts together and build a website that looks good. But is ‘look good’ good enough? In the past few months I’ve been working…
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Keyboard shortcuts – design for power users and productivity
When thinking about how users interact with a website on a desktop it’s easy to get lost in thinking about where they ‘click’. The keyboard is often forgotten as a method of interaction, relegated to typing in the URL and filling some forms out. However, it can actually be a powerful tool in speeding up…
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Digital Tribes – Creating Behaviour Change in Users
Everyone is a customer for something. As UX designers we should be aiming to influence customer behaviour in order to persuade them to take action for the benefit of the brands we work for. One way we can do this is by tapping into the theory of digital tribes and the group behaviour they inevitably…
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Quick tips – Automate your Axure wireframe titles
When working on a large set of wireframes in Axure it can be useful to have page titles and reference numbers on the wireframe itself. I would like to share a little trick I figured out the other day after getting tired of having to update the page title on the wireframe manually each time…
