Abstract: User Experience Design as a profession did neglect its defined and methodologically well-supported core tasks in favor of higher prestige tasks. Such a process is called “Professional regression”. The term User Experience Design might already be the result of an attempt to elevate the profession by extending its definition …
read more ...I recently read Lucy Suchman’s Plans and Situated Actions again. Actually I re-re-read it. When reading, I add a little year number to new notes and I saw that it had notes from 2016 and 2020 already. I though it was time to write some lines about the book …
read more ...Recently, I browsed itch.io’s tools section, a list of many tools, largely for game creation or general computer-supported creativity: Musik, zines, map generators, and batch tools. They remind me of late 90s and early 2000s free- and shareware: Small, useful tools created often by single programmers, sometimes a …
read more ...Recently, I rediscovered Scenarios as a tool in the design process.
If you don’t know scenarios: They are mini-stories with possible users as characters. Take this very short one as an example:
read more ...A parent is worried about a ten-year old refusing to drink milk and wants to know if …
A collection of free-as-in-freedom resources for user research.
Each resource has a brief description, a source and the license. However, to be sure you should look up the license on the source (this is what matters).
A nice collection of possible questions …
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