Patrícia Alecrim's List: USABILITY AND USER EXPERIENCE

This web site is a forum to share information and experiences on issues related to the usability and user-centered design. It is the home of the Usability and User Experience Community of the Society for Technical Communication.

Rosenfeld Media publishes short, practical, and useful books and webinars on user experience design. Our products explain the design and research methods that web professionals need to make informed design decisions.

The Usability Professionals' Association (UPA) supports people who research, design, and evaluate the user experience of products and services.

promoting usability and user-centered design

Designing Devices is a series of articles on how and why to create devices, written by me, Dan Saffer, principal designer at Kicker Studio. This is a place for essays that I hope to eventually collect into a book in 2011. Like drafts, the articles will be constantly evolving, hopefully with your feedback.

These articles won’t necessarily be how-to articles, however. For that, I recommend you read my book Designing for Interaction: Creating Innovative Applications and Devices, in which I go through the details of the design process. These articles are more general in nature, discussing the “whys” more than the “how.”

The UX Bookmark is a resource for HCI and human factors professionals, usability engineers, interaction designers & information architects.

Founded by Pabini Gabriel-Petit in 2005, UXmatters provides insights and inspiration to both professionals working in all aspects of user experience (UX)—at every stage in their career—and students who are just beginning their journey in user experience. UXmatters offers a platform where our authors—who include many of the leading experts in user experience—can teach UX best practices to developing UX professionals and influence the future direction of the UX community. The information needs of the UX community are diverse, and UXmatters endeavors to satisfy them. Our articles provide comprehensive coverage of important UX topics, ranging from focused, practical, actionable advice and best practices; to concise overviews of broader topics; to deep thought pieces that explore strategic aspects of user experience. Many of our authors are UX thought leaders who write about innovative ideas that are important to the advancement of the UX industry as a whole.

UX (User Experience) is all those elements and factors related to the user’s interaction with a particular environment or device which generate a positive or negative perception of the product, brand or device. UX is subjective and focused on use. The standard definition of UX is “a person’s perceptions and responses that result from the use or anticipated use of a product, system or service”. These factors are related to design and usability, but also to the emotions and feelings generated in the user, accessibility, brand trust…