Usability
Articles
Why UX should still care about international design standards
UX Booth
– 2 March 2021
By becoming familiar with standards, it is possible to instantly leverage the experience of industry experts and adopt best practices.
Adding Voice to the Touch Screen User Experience
While touch screens have greatly enhanced the user experience of our mobile devices, there are some usability issues that arise from a combination of a small screen and lack of a physical keyboard. As apps get more complex we need to look beyond just improving the tap and gesture-based user interface to look at other modalities like voice. If done right, expanding the user's interaction to include voice has the potential to make for a more fluid, efficient, and overall more enjoyable experience.
Courses
Web Design for Usability
Learn the principles of user-centred design and apply them to your designs to improve usability
How to create intuitive products by imitating physicality
In this course you will how to make the use of your product “feel right” and how to incorporate users' existing knowledge within your designs, thereby making your product intuitive.
Interaction design for usability
This course will teach you fundamental usability concepts and methods and will tie them together with interaction and visual design.
The practical guide to usability
Turn your good intentions into great products through a mixture of teaching both the theoretical guidelines as well as practical applications surrounding usability.
Books
Don’t Make Me Think (Revisited)
Don't Make Me Think is an essential guide to usability and website design.
Experience Required
Whatever your role, Experience Required teaches you to become the UX leader you’ve always wanted to be.
The Design of Everyday Things, revised and expanded edition
Even the smartest among us can feel inept as we try to figure out the shower control in a hotel or attempt to navigate an unfamiliar television set or stove.
Usable Usability: Simple Steps for Making Things Better
Frustrated by pop–ups? Forms that make you start over if you miss a field? Nonsensical error messages? You′re not alone!