Is search behaviour becoming more sophisticated?
A few folks have pointed out that my recent post on “Changing terms for changing times Usability, HCI, UCD & more” (which examined how the usage of these terms has changed across several decades of...
View ArticleReflections on Faceted Search and Beyond
Last week I had the privilege of attending James Kalbach‘s course on Faceted Search & Beyond, held as part of Syntagm‘s UXFest (“like Oktoberfest, but without the beer… and it’s in February”)....
View Article1st European Workshop on Human-Computer Interaction and Information Retrieval
If you’re interested in search and user experience and would like to know more about the science underpinning these disciplines, here’s an ideal opportunity: the 1st European Workshop on...
View ArticleDesigning Search (part 1): Entering the query
In an earlier post we reviewed models of information seeking, from an early focus on documents and queries through to a more nuanced understanding of search as an information journey driven by dynamic...
View ArticleWhat’s the best platform for prototyping touch-based apps?
I’m about to start a research project with some academic colleagues from the HCI community in the area of touch-based applications. What we want to develop isn’t a game as such, but it contains...
View ArticleFive myths of the UX design process
ISO 9241-210: Human-centred design for interactive systems Since founding UXLabs I’ve been involved in all sorts of design projects: both large and small, from simple to complex, start-up to corporate....
View ArticleResearcher / analyst needed
I am currently recruiting for the following position. We’d like to start asap, so if you know of anyone suitable, please do point in the direction of tgr AT uxlabs.co.uk. Thanks! Researcher / analyst...
View ArticleWho needs UX professionals anyway?
Most of us who work on digital products are familiar with the concept of A/B or multivariate testing – the process of exposing users to multiple variations of a design concept and using their aggregate...
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