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
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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!
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.
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.