All articles relating to user experience and user interaction design.
A few days ago I wrote a little bit about the report I am writing on evaluating successful user-centred design … Continue reading “‘Evaluating successful user-centred design’ report update – January 8th 2019”
First post of 2019! And it’s about a new project which I have until February to complete – writing a … Continue reading “‘Evaluating successful user-centred design’ – Applied User Research”
On November 9th 2018 I conducted a small study of people in Norwich Market using ethnographic interview techniques. On November … Continue reading “Analysing Round 2 of the Norwich Market Ethnographic Testing”
What are ethnographic interviews? Ethnography is the study of people’s lives: work, family, relations, religions and habits (UCL, 2018). It … Continue reading “Ethnographic interviews”
Using what I have learned over the past few weeks during the Design Toolkit unit, I created a prototype banking … Continue reading “Pendragon Finance – a prototype banking site”
In-keeping with my current research project, I am now examining the personality of four or five different financial websites. This … Continue reading “Personality in financial websites”
Previously I analysed the information architecture of supplementary navigation on financial websites, now it’s time to look at searching. Brief … Continue reading “Information architecture of search facilities on financial websites”
There are several ways of presenting information on websites, namely in the form of: Global navigation Local navigation ‘Mega menus’ … Continue reading “Information architecture of navigation on financial websites”
Using the financial websites mentioned in the last post, I analysed the metadata, page titles and destination page headings to … Continue reading “Menu labels and metadata on financial websites”
Site maps are used to document the pages in a website and also to help improve SEO, essentially allowing search … Continue reading “Visualising site maps to understand information architecture”