“Silverback makes it easy, quick and cheap for everyone to perform guerrilla usability tests with no setup and no expense, using hardware already in your Mac.”
This might be a good option to ask for user’s feedback, especially if one contacts you over a problem they are having. This way you can see where they are having a problem + have the them annotate the problem they are having.
Here are couple of sites for doing card sorting interactively and online. Best part is you can invite participants online to contribute and provide their input. This list is provided by the very awesome UX blog Sixrevisions.
OptimalSort offers a quality card-sorting and usability-testing service for a monthly fee. Create cards and options, and then send a link to the study to chosen participants. Or tweet the link and get random participants who are willing to help you out. The application offers real-time results and graphs, and the interface is sleek and smart.
WebSort is another online application with which designers can create card-sorting usability tests and send a link to the public or to chosen participants. It also has a great interface and calculates results and graphs just like OptimalSort. WebSort, however, has a unique drag-and-drop interface to simplify organization.
Pre-organize data into groups and sub-categories. With User Zoom you can have unlimited participants, and there is an option to include your own questions (such as, Why did you choose to place this content here, or Why did you group these items like this?). Tailored questions will get direct answers from participants and help you analyze their thought processes and improve the user experience.
xSort is an application for Macs that creates a drag-and-drop interface for card sorting that mimics physical cards. It also calculates and presents the results for you to use on screen or print out for future reference.
CardZort, a standalone application for Windows, Mac and Linux, offers a simple approach to digital card sorting. Two programs are available: CardZort, the standard drag-and-drop card-sorting application, and CardCluster, which works with CardZort to create a detailed cluster analysis of the results. This lightweight tool is a great free option that gets right to the point of traditional card sorting.
Even though technology evolved at a crazy pace the last 100 years, the humble button has stayed at the center of it all. What is its past, its future? Why is it important? What does it say about the interaction between humans and technology? Pictures, stories, revelations, maybe movies.
@SXSW’10 by Bill DeRouchey, Ziba Design
I wanted to write down my thoughts upon reading the Smashing Magazine article on the gradual disappearance of Flash on the web. Along with the recent discussions rising from Apple’s moves on clearing Flash from the face of the earth, web and iDevices, it stimulated many of us to think if HTML5 can really replace Flash.
Without drilling into technical details, I think holistically:
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Moritz Stefaner is a visualization artist, holding a B.Sc. in Cognitive Science and an M.A. in Interface Design. Currently, he is employed as a research assistant at FH Potsdam on the MACE project and work as a freelance information visualizer. His slides on data visualization are an amazing summary for where we are right now, what trends are out there, and how cool working with visualization is.
Eigenfactor is a non-commercial academic research project by the Bergstrom lab in the Department of Biology at the University of Washington. The goal is to map the structure of science. Together, we are developing different visualizations based on citation patterns between scientific journals.
taken from his website.
Nick Finck and Raina Van Cleave’s presentation slides from the SXSWi talk are up. Here’s a summary:
User experiences are your everyday experiences—anything from operating a car, to making a pot of coffee, to ordering a pair of shoes online. User experience is the result of your interactions with a product or service, specifically how it’s delivered and its related artifacts according to the design.
In this presentation Nick Finck and Raina Van Cleave will explore the ten characteristics of a great user experience. They will cover all aspects of user experience design such as user research, information architecture, information design, technical writing, interaction design, visual design, brand identity design, accessibly, usability and web analytics. Nick and Raina will also explain how following the ten commandments can boost your web sites, web app, or mobile app’s ease of use, appeal, conversion rates, and more.
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Finally this year, I was able to attend a SXSW which I was interested in since I heard about it the first time. And against all the negative comments in the blogosphere (eg. TechCrunch), I really enjoyed it! I attended more than 20 panels on interactive, met many many people, and even enjoyed a quick chat with Bruce Sterling on OpenProcessing (he blogged about it couple of times, this time he even took a photo of me). I will post my thoughts on the panels separately, but here is what I think and liked in general.
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Oh Entourage for Mac, are you supposed to be the perfect design disaster of the computer world?
Let me click “Yes” and see what’s going on..
Recently, I was interviewed on OpenProcessing, its origins, collaboration with Rhizome on the Tiny Sketch competition and it’s future. Below is a first couple of paragraphs; read the full article on Rhizome’s site:
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Smashing Magazine gathered a collection of wireframing kits: utencils, indesign libraries, omni graffle stuff, iPhone templates…. No excuse for us to wire an idea any longer than 5 mins.
50 Free UI and Web Design Wireframing Kits, Resources and Source Files – Smashing Magazine.
Eyes on You, Tarantino is an exploration of unique style of the movie/video directors from the perspective of the eye movement patterns of the audience. Capturing how the eyes of the audience follow the short scenes from Tarantino, Hitchcock and Gondry, using with DIY eye tracking glasses and software, Eyes on You, Tarantino displays these patterns on an interactive installation that project the scenes and recorded eye movement patterns in an intuitive interface.
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“Silverback makes it easy, quick and cheap for everyone to perform guerrilla usability tests with no setup and no expense, using hardware already in your Mac.”
This might be a good option to ask for user’s feedback, especially if one contacts you over a problem they are having. This way you can see where they are having a problem + have the them annotate the problem they are having.
The website that Google ends up taking you to find your php questions, stack exchange, also revealed their UX related exchange website.
card sorting online! whoa, this really looks cool!
Artist vs. VC on Google image search
How your audience makes a difference
nice example for favorite + comment icon placement
Above-the-fold term comes from newspapers, which users consume the content after they buy. In web, users take action after they consume the content.A quote to help you in ‘above the fold’ discussions
An article on memorialization process of the deceased on Facebook
So I am thinking; a single word is sharper than a blade, and a single picture is worth thousand words, how sharp is an image?
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