Archives

[Poster] Understanding Aspiring UX Professionals Professional Development

[Poster] Understanding Aspiring UX Professionals Professional Development Research has shown that the Computer Science (CS) undergraduates tend to identify themselves professionally with specialized CS professions including Software Engineering, Web Development, and User Experience professions especially when they are in the junior or senior years of their program. To support their professional development, there is a […]

[Poster] Grabbing (and keeping!) your users’ attention in the age of interruption – How the attention economy has changed the rules of engagement

[Poster] Grabbing (and keeping!) your users’ attention in the age of interruption – How the attention economy has changed the rules of engagement Smartphones changed everything. Where early mobile phones were used to make calls, smartphones have morphed the mobile device experience into a path to everything online, from personal/group messaging to email, social apps, […]

[Poster] ReSUS: A validated plain language SUS alternative (or how to benchmark your interaction design, and have scientific rigor, too.)

[Poster] ReSUS: A validated plain language SUS alternative (or how to benchmark your interaction design, and have scientific rigor, too.) Surveys provide a quick, effective to benchmark customer satisfaction over time. However, the “standard” surveys are not without controversy. In particular, we diUX Practitioners have a longstanding love-hate relationship with the SUS. We love benchmarking […]

[Poster] UX Design for Sustainability: Where Academe, Business, and Community Meet

[Poster] UX Design for Sustainability: Where Academe, Business, and Community Meet Universities are often untapped for the research expertise they can provide to create innovation and improve local communities. Yet, the expertise is there, and students crave the applied learning experience. This poster presentation describes a mutually beneficial partnership between a graduate UX class and […]

Navigating Diversity in UX

Navigating Diversity in UX 2018 was plagued with more than a few insensitive social missteps. Like many of you, I viewed commercials, articles, news stories and advertisements wondering HOW DID THAT HAPPEN? How could they be so insensitive? But a quick perusal of the headshots usually uncovers the unfortunate “how”. To put it simply, there […]

UX After Dark

UX After Dark Three industry stalwarts will share funny, insane, unbelievable stories from their own and others’ professional UX lives. Crazy clients, wacky test participants, grace under fire, the sacred and the (nominally) profane. We tell ourselves these stories after hours for our own amusement. Now we invite you to pull up a seat at […]