Estimated reading time: 3.5 mins.
As with any young industry we tend to endlessly debate the labels we should be placing on the User Experience based roles that we are conducting.
Along with this debate on the labels, we seem to be now in a blame game on who really is responsible as an industry (which I had no idea we where) for the on going career development of junior, mid level and senior UX people. Maybe better to just fix it folks.
As these elements of navel gazing have been going on quietly in the background the game has been changing. Maybe For the better.
Estimated reading time: 1.8 min.
You may have noticed that the output from this blog has slowed over the last ten or so months from at least a post a week to if you’re lucky one post a month. Sorry about that.
I can’t really put my finger on why my blogging output has decreased.
I still like writing, I mayn’t be any good at it, but I do enjoy the process. Writing in this type of format is liberating and can be very creative. Very different from corporate report speak of business .
Still there must be some reasons for this decrease in output:
Estimated reading time: 3.6 mins.
I don’t mind completing surveys, I even do those phone surveys. Having working with several different marketing teams and conducted countless UX information gathering surveys over the years. I can understand the difficulties of getting a good response from people. So I don’t mind taking the time to complete the odd survey.
Still I have to wonder sometimes if the teams behind the surveys are really understanding their audience that is completing the survey in the first place.
A few weeks back our fence was blown over in a storm. We put in an insurance claim, it was processed, and we got the fence repaired. No issue, good service all round.
Estimated reading time: 2.8 mins.
I get asked this a lot. “What are the best UX books to read?”
In true UX tradition my answer is depends.
It depends on your experience as a UX practitioner, your experience with scientific research methods, psychology, interaction design, user interface design, product or visual design and your level of communication skills.
Still having a list of starter books would be handy.
Yeah sure others have their lists from the likes of Will Evans, Paul Seys and Nick Finck however some of the books on these are either too complex (for someone new to UX) or take way to long to get to the point. Bit like this post.
