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Understanding Biases

Posted on May 20, 2010 by Xavier

Bias is a com­mon human trait and cog­nit­ive bias affects all of us. Wiki­pe­dia defines ‘cog­nit­ive bias’ as “the human tend­ency to draw incor­rect con­clu­sions in cer­tain cir­cum­stances based on cog­nit­ive factors rather than evid­ence”. Bias is an out­come of … Con­tinue read­ing →

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In defence of Ferrari

Posted on May 11, 2010 by Xavier

These past few days, a video of a Fer­rari engin­eer explain­ing the com­plex­ity of the Fer­rari F10 For­mula 1 racing car has been mak­ing the rounds. Every blog post or dis­cus­sion forum I have come across so far seem to … Con­tinue read­ing →

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Is technical communication a part of user experience?

Posted on January 25, 2010 by Xavier

Is tech­nical com­mu­nic­a­tion a part of user exper­i­ence? Abso­lutely. Without Doubt. One major inter­ac­tion that a user has with a sys­tem is the doc­u­ment­a­tion accom­pa­ny­ing the product, either as prin­ted manu­als or their elec­tronic cous­ins. In fact, any text that … Con­tinue read­ing →

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Wireframes for the Wicked

Posted on August 20, 2009 by Xavier

In this SXSWi 2009 panel, Nick Finck, Donna Spen­cer, and Michael Angeles talk about wire­frames, par­tic­u­larly the vari­ous types of wire­frames. The best part of the panel is the Q&A ses­sion that fol­lows the presentation.

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to err is human

Posted on August 19, 2009 by Xavier

One recent after­noon, I got draf­ted into review­ing and edit­ing a bunch of error mes­sages for a product. It was sup­posed to be a quick one hour work. But these assign­ments never really turn out be an hour’s job. All … Con­tinue read­ing →

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How to start a career in User Experience?

Posted on August 11, 2009 by Xavier

Nick Finck provides his advice in his post, Start­ing a Career in User Exper­i­ence Design and he talk of three core areas of advice: the three E’s are Edu­ca­tion, Exper­i­ence, and Expos­ure. “The num­ber one suc­cess factor for user exper­i­ence … Con­tinue read­ing →

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