Archive for June, 2007

How To Run A Card Sort and A Little Bit of Why

Thursday, June 28th, 2007

Humans love to organize and categorize things. We do it all day, everyday. The trouble comes when one person, or a small group of people, sit down and decide how a set of items should be organized and categorized for everyone. Card Sorting takes a set of cards (imagine that!) with one […]

No More Ponderous Usability Tests! Or…?

Saturday, June 23rd, 2007

I’ve always found usability testing to be fast and agile; you just find someone to tell you how much your design sucks. That’s easy! :) It’s the user research part of designing an interface that usually takes forever. It’s also usually the part that your friendly neighborhood UXer never has time […]

Ice Cream Social Computing

Thursday, June 21st, 2007

My background in blogging and communities is one of the things that got me my current job. I work with (among other things) the team behind the user community site for my company. My role is in usability, but because of said background I often chime in in community related topics. It […]