Introduction (readings)

Introduction to UX/UX Research


(1) Kuniavsky, ch. 3

(2) Troll through the webpages below for overviews of each topic.

User Experience

Principles for Usable Design from Usability Body of Knowledge

Nielsen/Norman Group User Experience

Nielsen, Usability 101

A fairly good collection of definitions  of UX  and UX design from a consulting firm

Usability Professionals’ Association Poster The text on this page is a pretty good overview of a possible design process.

Top Ten Myths About Usability, Tom Tullis – very short PPT but true; links to PDF of all of his slides for this presentation.  His book is Measuring the User Experience so this presentation and his website are useful for getting a sense of quantitative approaches to user experience.

User Experience Research

http://adaptivepath.com/services/ A list of services and products from a local UX consulting firm.

User experience research methods

Good overview based on the major dimensions on which methods can be categorized.

http://www.usability.gov/ Step through much of this site to get an overview.

http://www.usability.gov/methods/index.html Look at this page in particular. Doesn’t exactly match what we’ll be doing, but useful. Click on the links to get a general sense of what these methods cover.

http://www.usabilityfirst.com/methods/index.txl Another overview of common methods — not the same set asusability.gov

http://www.usabilitynet.org/tools/methods.htm Note that this is an interactive chart that lets you specify three different sets of constraints.

http://www.theusabilityteam.com/overview.asp And another overview.

http://www.infodesign.com.au/usabilityresources