Archive of UX
Narrative Journey Maps
Introducing Narrative Journey Maps The UX team at Caplin are always looking for ways to enhance our Usage Centered Design (UCD) process and tools because we realise the importance of UCD in helping us to uncover the pain points of our users. When designing/refining application ‘flow’ one of the tools we use…
Read MoreIgnoring UX could cost you
This is why it’s all about the UX and not the UI. Those in the business of developing front-end trading applications – take note. You have got to look beyond the graphics and explore the interaction while thinking about avoiding those “fat finger” moments… http://arstechnica.com/business/news/2010/01/how-a-stray-mouse-click-choked-the-nyse-cost-a-bank-150k.ars Here at Caplin we are passionate…
Read MoreLivescribe – as tool for Contextual Inquiry
Livescribe is a tool I’ve been using for a year or so now within the UX team here at Caplin, to capture notes from design meetings and ongoing UCD contextual inquiries. It’s a great tool and is also discreet – useful in contextual scenarios where setting up a video recorder…
Read MorePersonas in the driving seat? our worksh…
Personas in the driving seat? our workshop @ the 2010 SPA conference in May http://www.spaconference.org/spa2010/sessions/session276.html ‘Persona-driven development – can it work for you?’ Has now been accepted!
Read MoreSPA 2010 conference proposals
The SPA conference is always a great event with lots of interesting sessions and a good mix of people in attendence. Following a succesful session that Andrew MacLeod and I ran at last year’s conference (building an automated browser testing framework using Selenium), a couple of proposals have been put…
Read MoreUX: Time to get emotional
In Tales from a Trading Desk, this week Matt Davey has picked up on an interesting article about UX and ROI. I like this sound bite: Also, if you create great UX it will always lead to better user satisfaction, joy and happiness – and it’s a well know fact…
Read MoreStreamlink for Silverlight for Mobile
With the recent release of Caplin’s Streamlink for Silverlight it’s exciting to find out that Microsoft plan to release a Silverlight for Mobile devices. The goal of Silverlight is to provide a consistent experience across desktop and mobile phones. Developers will be able to easily optimize Silverlight applications for mobile…
Read MoreUX London 2009 Pencasts
NOTE: this page might take awhile to load… and/or you might need to refresh the page for the pencasts to display (don’t ask me why ) Peter Merholz Merholz-UXLondon2009brought to you by Livescribe UXLondon 2009 Peter Merholz p2brought to you by Livescribe Don Norman Norman-UXLondon2009brought to you by Livescribe Jared…
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