Category Archives: Usability

Usability guidelines / User research [Ministry of Defense]

2006 • Yoeke The IT department of the department of Defense wanted to increase the use of their PeopleSoft Self Service application by improving its usability and adding new features. I was asked to develop usability guidelines that could be used both to improve the existing application and develop the new features that were planned.
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Design strategy and market maturity

After reading Jared Spool’s articles on the relationship between Market Maturity and Design Strategy a while ago I felt, well, resentment. I believed I felt that way not because the company I worked for belongs in the “lowest” stage, rendering my efforts to incorporate UX in the design process useless, but because the message is [...]
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Added value to the customer

Recently we were told that the UX team was going to be made redundant because we were losing money, weren’t part of the companies core business and had no added value to the companies portfolio OR TO OUR CLIENTS. I started thinking about how we could start being profitable as a team and how we [...]
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Usability Testing Guerilla Techniques

I’m really looking forward to a session of the User interface13 Conference October 13th in Cambridge by Dana Chisnell – Usability Testing Guerrilla Techniques: Collecting User Data on a Shoestring. I’ve been working on an interesting “e-government” project for a couple of months now as a user experience designer. Initially I was asked to make [...]
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Do I still :-) my iPhone?

Some more thoughts on what constitutes “User Experience”. Since I last posted about my love for my iPhone I have read several opinions on why the iPhone has been such a success. Computer idee writes that the iPhone has become nr 1 on Flickr (with a measly 2mb pixel camera  and after existing only one [...]
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