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Kara Pernice

Kara Pernice is President and CEO of Nielsen Norman Group. She began pioneering UX in the early 1990's, and now uses her vast experience to lead NN/g in its next exciting phase.

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Articles and Videos

  • Intranet & Enterprise Design: Study Guide

    Unsure where to begin? Use this collection of links to our articles and videos to learn about intranets and enterprise to help you derive an excellent design.

  • How Things Really Get Done in UX: The Informal Organization

    UX professionals often do new things and work in untraditional ways. If only considering a company's official org chart, they may fail. The informal organization can be more important for getting UX done.

  • The State of ResearchOps: Untapped Yet

    The field of research operations (ResearchOps) has garnered attention in recent years, but dedicated roles in organizations are uncommon and resources are scarce today.

  • UX-Maturity Stage 5: Integrated

    Organizations at this stage are in an excellent position, with successful, sustainable UX practices and committed people.

  • 5 Facilitation Principles for Both UX Workshops and User Tests

    Both UX workshops and usability tests benefit when facilitators are focused on goals, follow a meeting guide yet are open to improvisation, encourage participants to act, and don’t talk too much.

  • Four Factors in UX Maturity

    Improving UX maturity requires growth and evolution across 4 high-level factors: strategy, culture, process, and outcomes.

  • Remarkable Organizations and Challenges, Fast Development, and Small Teams Define the 2021 Intranet Design Annual Winners

    Winning intranets were created quickly; and all winners welcomed expertise and assistance from outside agencies.

  • The 6 Levels of UX Maturity

    Our UX-maturity model has 6 stages that cover processes, design, research, leadership support, and longevity of UX. Use our quiz to get an idea of your organization’s UX maturity.

  • How to Design a Good Search UI

    If users don't use your search a lot, it's often because the search user interface is poorly designed. Here are the top guidelines for how to show the search feature on both desktop and mobile.

  • PM and UX Have Markedly Different Views of Their Job Responsibilities

    A survey of people in user experience and product management shows that these professionals disagree on who should be responsible for many key tasks, like doing discoveries and early design.