Recommended Reading

Recommended readings contains and reviews about published works in the area of user experience, the user-centered design process, and the value of user experience.

Happy World Usability Day: November 13, 2008

Each November, the Usability Professionals’ Association sponsors World Usability Day.
It’s about making our world work better, making life easier, and user friendly. Technology today is too hard to use. In order to humanize a world that uses technology as an infrastructure, we must develop these technologies in a way that serves people first.

Scenario Design Is Key For Great Experiences

At Azinno, we design complete user experiences using our toolbox of methods and process. We’ve always believed that user personas and scenario designs help in creating great experiences. Bruce Temkin of Forrester Research provides some evidence.

Our Case Study: Designing Software for Consumers, Save $ Millions

This is a paper we presented at the CHI, the Computer-Human Interaction conference, titled Designing Software for Consumers to Easily Set Up a Secure Home Network. It is a summary on how a good user experience design impacts the bottom line and in this case study, saved Linksys several $ million annually.

Smart Home Technology Needs Improvement

This document is a thesis, published by Brenton Elmore in 2000.