All posts with the tag of User Experience

19th February 2013 by Lauren Lennard | Events

On February 9th, the Information Architecture Institute, a group of international sponsors and local coordinators convened to hold fifteen events around the world, including Paris, Budapest, Dubai and New York, in support and celebration of Information Architecture. Bristol were also a host city with Nomensa acting as lead sponsor and organiser.

21st January 2013 by Léonie Watson | Web Accessibility

Dear David Bowie,

You may be one of my music Heroes, but your new website isn’t so much Rock n Roll Suicide as inclusive design murder. If The Pretty Things Are Going To Hell, your website is leading the way.

16th January 2013 by Simon Norris | Simon says

A summary of the key concepts and ideas from the 5 articles in the meaning series. We human beings are hungry for meaning in all aspects of our lives. The meaning-first manifesto is a philosophy for researching and designing meaningful interaction.

16th November 2012 by Simon Norris | Simon says

Meaning is what we assign to every aspect of our lives from the simplest of actions to the most complex. The design of any digital experience that feels meaningful has to accommodate our basic human need for discovery.

Meaning-first is a design approach that puts emphasis on delivering meaningful interactions.

24th August 2012 by Simon Norris | User Experience

Typically, when fidelity gets mentioned in a user experience (UX) context we often hear it paired with the word wireframe. Fidelity is more commonly known in its abbreviated form either as low-fi or high-fi. Yet, we feel fidelity has so much more to offer. We can use it as a tool to design meaning.

This article will explore the idea of using fidelity to build a common understanding – a shared meaning. It builds on a presentation given in February ’12 to the Bristol Usability Group.

2nd July 2012 by Matt Lawson | YouTube

A short guide to how and why you should validate your code.

19th June 2012 by Léonie Watson | Web Accessibility

Why is it that every website seems compelled to include social media buttons these days? More to the point, why do they do it with no thought as to the best place to stick them!

27th April 2012 by Simon Norris | Simon says

Most of our decisions on a daily basis will be driven by some sort of emotional factor rather than thinking or reason. We process more than 11 million pieces of sensory information every second. We can only attend to about 40 of those but the rest is not disregarded – it’s processed. As interaction designers we need to learn to dive below the surface and uncover the factors that will help us design deeper meaning.