There are five steps to run the Wizard of Oz Method, a moderated research method in which a user interacts with an interface that appears to be automated but is actually controlled to some degree by a person.
Maximize the value of your smartwatch notifications by making them personally relevant, appropriately timed, non-repetitive, and sufficiently informative.
It can be tempting to follow the next big UX trend. Before adopting a UX trend, we must evaluate how the trend will support users and impact our workflows.
Metaverse projects must follow the standard user-centered design process, including prototyping and usability testing, to result in useful designs that people will want to use.
How to familiarize users with new user interfaces? Onboarding techniques include feature promotion, customization, and instructions. All must be kept simple.
Low-code platforms and other end-user programming or simplified implementation don't remove the need for task analysis and other deeper UX work and thus don't guarantee great usability. But they can free up budget for better UX work.
Do AI products have good user experience? Only partly, and to get better, we need to focus AI more on human needs than on what's technically possible. But AI can also help UX professionals do their job better, which will improve usability more widely.
Virtual reality (VR) user interfaces are currently more difficult for users to manipulate than a traditional GUI, partly because of more degrees of freedom and partly because VR is still new, so people have less experience using it. Advice for how to employ usability studies to alleviate this problem.
We asked a group of UX professionals what they think will happen to the field over the next 5 years. Will design get better? Worse? (Nobody thought this.) Or something completely new?
Jakob Nielsen answers the question of how users' perception of artificial intelligence products and their user experience may be impacted by the way these services are promoted by vendors.
Research and design go hand in hand and have staying power. Even as UX principles become more widely accepted, there is always more to learn and improve.
