Archive for the ‘Thoughts’ Category
Email newsletter design guidelines
Posted Friday, March 5th, 2010 by Chui Chui TanChui Chui shares tips and guidelines that you can use when designing, creating and sending email newsletters to your customers.
Adding an extra dimension to UX with eyetracking
Posted Friday, February 26th, 2010 by Joe LeechEyetracking is a useful tool in understanding, measuring and defining the user experience. Joe talks about why it’s great.
How to create secure and memorable passwords
Posted Friday, February 19th, 2010 by Richard CaddickTips on how to create a secure password that you will remember.
Designs that impress the Board
Posted Tuesday, February 2nd, 2010 by Giles ColborneGiles looks at how some pages on your site can be improved to generate massive increases in conversions, and win you kudos with your board of directors.
10 ways you can use photos to influence the user experience
Posted Friday, January 29th, 2010 by James ChudleyPhotos can have a fundamental effect upon the user experience but as UX designers we generally ignore them. In this article James Chudley, our resident photographer, shares ten ways that you can use photos to enhance the user experience as well as suggesting a new way to annotate photographs in your wireframes and prototypes.
Five tips to improve your user interface design
Posted Thursday, January 14th, 2010 by Richard CaddickFive top tips to improve user interface design at an early stage of project development.
Using ethnography to improve user experience
Posted Wednesday, November 4th, 2009 by Bonny Colville-HydeEthnography is a research method that can be used to find out how to make your brand more appealing to your customers. In this blog Bonny looks at how cxpartners use ethnography to provide insights in to customer journeys.
Usability Open Day – 12th November
Posted Tuesday, October 27th, 2009 by Fiz Yazdicxpartners open their doors to celebrate World Usability Day. We’re offering free advice and support for any project that could be more user-focused. Drop in for an informal chat with some of the leading consultants in the South West.
Qualitative research part 1: A primer
Posted Wednesday, October 14th, 2009 by Walt BuchanA primer that introduces the foundations of qualitative research, reliability and validity. In part two we look at the threats to reliability and validity and how we deal with them during user experience fieldwork, in depth interviews (IDIs) and usability testing.
The myth of the page fold: evidence from user testing
Posted Friday, September 18th, 2009 by Joe LeechJoe and Fiz break down the myth of the page fold with evidence from user testing, and give some tips to ensure content below the fold gets seen.