Karl A L Smith

human knowledge belongs to the world

What is user experience (UX)

#UX #ROI, every dollar spent on UX brings in between $2 and $100 dollars in return

Every dollar spent on UX brings in between $2 and $100 dollars in return. This is gained by spending on UX not making things look pretty, it’s not graphics its making the product, service or information system meet the business…

#Recruiters requesting #UX #portfolio #breach #IPR

Recruiters requesting a UX portfolio can cause a breach of Intellectual Property Rights So I posted this as an update on LinkedIn I got some great responses from people who read their contracts and got a whole load of really…

#UX #Designer waste of money for #Clients

How do you design experience UXD? You can design a framework or architecture but the experience in UX is in someone’s mind and in their emotions, if you design people experience its a crime against humanity UX research or UX…

#UI and #UX are not #interchangeable

It’s just the most embarrassing thing to hear intelligent people say UI/UX. It makes professional people cringe because your left wondering should you care that they are exposing ignorance or just let them get on with sounding like an idiot….

Interview with a #User #Experience #Guru part 2

User Experience (UX) why is it important? User experience is so important because it enables client companies to get to the heart of their relationship with their customers without the marketing glamor that hides how they really feel and what…

Being asked the #UX #Point of view #POV exposes #ignorance

The UX point of view is; we have no point of view that’s the point of UX (in fact it’s been created that way) any person who can offer a UX point of view (without actual user and business perspective)…

What is a #User in #Professional #UX?

What is a User in Professional UX? Below is a simple guide to find out if you have users involved in your project. A person who is part (employed or service team) of a contracted consultancy – IS NOT A USER A person…

An interview with a #User #Experience #Guru

User Experience (UX) looks pretty simple can anyone do it? No it’s a skill and knowledge based activity, I look for communicators with formal science qualifications (BSc, MSc or PhD), standards knowledge, creativity and genius level intelligence. Wow you need…

#Agile #User #stories is a #UX #method

User stories is another name for a Cognitive Walkthrough I have been involved in Agile for a very long time, mainly because it uses methods from the human computer interaction scientific process (CHI/HCI). Organizational Agility and Business Agility Group (27,000…

5 #UX #lies, damn lies and absolute #myths

1. Anyone can do user experience, nope! I meet a lot of people claiming to do user experience, process and deliverables aside, they don’t have a usability background so they cannot do real user experience. User experience is a personal…

#UI is not #UX

There seems to be a huge level of confusion around user experience (UX), but one of the key things is that the user interface is not the user experience architecture. User Interface – what the user sees Interface Logic –…

12 #UX things you need to know

Getting into user experience, what you need to know? What will a person need to be able to do to get into user experience; 1. Can you think? Not the most subtle way to ask, but can you be creative? Thinking…

UX Design Principles

Pre-accepted and trusted visual standards are vital to user acceptance and experience as they encourage adoption of technology systems. This is vital so that users don’t need to learn new or counter intuitive interaction behaviours.

#User #Interface (UI) is not the User #Experience (UX)

There seems to be a huge level of confusion around user experience (UX) but one of the key things is that User interface UI is not the user experience UX, Karl Smith 2000 Simple digital systems are constructed with several…

#Definition of #UX

Philosophy of UX User experience is about making people’s lives better not just changed A persons experience is based in their mind and their emotions and can be established by both actual interaction and reflective (biographical experience) inputs. In UX…

#Definition of #User #Experience #UX

User experience (UX) is about how a person feels, appropriates, attributes and generally thinks about using a product, system or service. ‘Listen or well go elsewhere’, because we can and will seek our own needs before yours.