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Home» 2012 » November

Our Special, Merry UXmas Treat to You

Posted on November 30, 2012 by Luke Chambers in Soft Skills
UXmas

For the past week or two, the elves here at UX Mastery have been busy working closely with our friends at Thirst Studios to package up something very special.

We’re very proud to announce our Merry Christmas treat to you: uxmas.com

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The Importance of Being Earnest

Posted on November 29, 2012 by Luke Chambers in Soft Skills

How do you want to behave as a professional designer? How much does your attitude and conduct affect what you can do, and what others will let you do? Luke reacts to the ego shown by another interaction designer and examines how age-old, earnest, capital-D-for-design thinking is imperative for UX as a problem-solving skill-set.

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Sketchnotes from Product Bash 2012

Posted on November 27, 2012 by Matthew Magain in Soft Skills

We haven’t posted any sketchnotes in a while.

Luckily, Matt recently attended Product Bash 2012, the end-of-year bash for product managers. He sketched the panel, and learned quite a bit about product management and entrepreneurship in the process.

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Take the UX Mastery Reader Survey and Win!

Posted on November 22, 2012 by Matthew Magain in Soft Skills

UX Mastery has been live for a few months now, and if you’ve been following along then you’ve probably come to know a little about us. Now we want to know about you.

To entice you to open up to us and complete our (really quite short) online survey, we’re offering a carrot. Actually I tell a lie, it’s not a carrot—it’s much tastier than that. It’s the super-mega-awesome-UX-book-bundle-thingy, worth over $200.

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‘UX’ Marks the Spot: Mapping the User Experience

Posted on November 20, 2012 by Luke Chambers in Design

We often talk about UX as finding the sweet spot between the needs of the users and the business but we rarely get more than nebulous deliverables to imagine how it actually looks.

In this post Luke uses an ‘experience map’ to give us an end-to-end view of the user experience and explain how broader strategy can be applied to detailed design work. It’s a super-effective way to understand the impacts of the product or service on the user, and helps us to understand, justify and prioritise a UX approach.

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The Critical UX Factor You’re Probably Not Aware Of

Posted on November 19, 2012 by Luke Chambers in Research

In Luke’s last post he talked about how most UX designers don’t pay enough attention to non-visual touchpoints. This post is about something bigger. There’s a second aspect to the way we’ve limited our scope of involvement, and its making us miss out on influencing business strategy and being part of a wider customer experience solution.

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Should You Become A UX Generalist Or A UX Specialist?

Posted on November 14, 2012 by Matthew Magain in Careers
An illustration of a UX Designer juggling several balls at once, and struggling!

Several years ago Matt had a career crisis—whether to become a UX generalist or a UX specialist.

Which are you? Which would you rather be? He attempts to help you answer these questions.

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Happy World Usability Day 2012!

Posted on November 8, 2012 by Matthew Magain in Soft Skills

Today is World Usability Day, which exists to bring attention to the importance of usability and the role it can play in making a better world.

To celebrate the day, here’s a short comic about the struggles of being a UX Designer. Enjoy!

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The Future Is Wearable: An Interview With Amber Case

Posted on November 7, 2012 by Matthew Magain in Entrepreneurship

Amber Case is a user experience designer and a cyborg anthropologist—she’s a futurist, a technology enthusiast, and an entrepreneur.

She caught up with Matt to discuss wearable computing, location-based services, entrepreneurship, and what exactly it means to be a cyborg anthropologist.

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Recommended Reading: Our Favourite UX Books

Posted on November 6, 2012 by Matthew Magain in Careers

Looking for a book to learn something specific related to user experience design? You’ve come to the right place!

We present, for your viewing pleasure, our list of recommended UX books.

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