Welcome to the May edition of the Userfocus usability and user experience newsletter!
- Message from the Editor
- 30 Days of User Experience — The Bathroom Edition
- From our archives: Measuring satisfaction: Beyond the usability questionnaire
- What we're reading
- Upcoming user experience training courses
- User experience quotation of the month
Message from the Editor
We're told that inspiration can be found in the most unusual of places. Since the article I wrote this month arose from a visit to a urinal, I can only agree with this point of view. In other news, we're running a 3-day UX Certification course next month — more details at the end of the newsletter.
30 Days of User Experience — The Bathroom Edition
'30 Days of User Experience' is a downloadable PDF to print out and place in your workplace bathroom to encourage people to engage in UX activities. Read the article in full: 30 Days of User Experience — The Bathroom Edition
From our archives: Measuring satisfaction: Beyond the usability questionnaire
Most usability tests culminate with a short questionnaire that asks the participant to rate, usually on a 5- or 7-point scale, various characteristics of the system. Experience shows that participants are reluctant to be critical of a system, no matter how difficult they found the tasks. This article describes a guided interview technique that overcomes this problem based on a word list of over 100 adjectives. Read the article in full: Measuring satisfaction: Beyond the usability questionnaire.
What we’re reading
Some interesting usability-related articles that got our attention over the last month:
- 'I thought my eyesight was beginning to go. It turns out, I'm suffering from design.'
- Is Juicera the worst juicer ever created?
- ‘Try your design in German’ and 66 other life and business lessons for designers.
- A Brief History of (Microsoft) Design.
- Why common Agile processes like Scrum and Extreme Programming can cause startups to focus on the wrong thing.
- Useful for prototyping: A gallery of real data ready to be placed in your design.
- Some interesting videos here about content strategy from people at Facebook, Amex, GDS, BBC.
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Upcoming user experience training courses
New dates! Foundation Certificate in User Experience, June 20-22 2017, London.
Gain the BCS Foundation Certificate in User Experience in this fun and hands-on training course. You'll practice in all the key areas of UX — from interviewing your users through to prototyping and usability testing your designs — while you prepare for and take the exam.
More information about this training course: Foundation Certificate in User Experience.
User Experience quotation of the month
"Without data, you're just another person with an opinion." W Edwards Demming.
Hungry for more?
Foundation Certificate in UX
Gain hands-on practice in all the key areas of UX while you prepare for the BCS Foundation Certificate in User Experience. More details
Newsletter archive
Look back over previous newsletters in the newsletter archive.