As the leaves fall and the air becomes crisp, online shoppers begin to think about shopping for the holiday season. If you’re a eCommerce businesse owner, you should start planning on how to cater to those shopper’s desires and joys. The holiday season will be the time when consumers spend …

UX Interview Questions UX Design Process How do you define UX design? What is your design process? Describe what methods you follow? What is visual hierarchy? Can you speak to the difference between information architecture, interaction design, usability and user research? How do you get into the mindset of a …

Institutionalising User Experience: 5 ways to embed UX in your company Trying to embed usability in an organisation needs more than persuasive, logical arguments. You also need to appeal to managers’ emotions and political ambitions. This article describes five successful strategies that we’ve seen work in companies large and small. At …

SUS: The Most Used Questionnaire for Measuring Perceived Usability The System Usability Scale (SUS) is a ten-item questionnaire administered to users for measuring the perceived ease of use of software, hardware, cell phones and websites. It’s been around for more than a quarter century, and its wide usage has allowed …

Timeline Of Usability [Infographic] MeasuringU has put together a visual timeline of the 100 year history of usability that we detailed in an earlier blog. This detailed infographic covers many of the key events, publications and people that have shaped the profession. If you’re obsessed with usability like we are, …

7 Best Practices for Designing a Mobile User Experience In the last 3 years desktop Internet usage has fallen from 90% to 60%, while mobile usage has increased to 40%. Following this trend, mobile devices are set to upstage desktop Internet access soon. Very soon. Image from StatCounter The challenge in …

Crucial Steps in the UX Design Process Personas Storyboards Sketches Wireframes Prototypes

When it comes to website and application design, one of the more important decisions to make involves choosing the right colors. It’s a choice that can make or break a project, especially when we consider all the moving parts that go into creating a successful app or site. That’s why …

A group at MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) have found a way to speed up the Web without actually increasing the connection throughput or making fundamental code changes. It created Polaris, a framework that determines how to overlap the objects being downloaded by a page and minimize …

Step Aside Millennials: Gen Z Has Arrived Generation Z is a fascinating group. They have so many positive qualities and attributes that could potentially help make a better world for everyone. The game is changing. Generation Z consist of those born in 1995 or later. Including both teens and tweens, …