UX newsletter — July 2018Email not displaying correctly? View it in your browser. Message from the EditorHi {!email} Big excitement in Userfocus towers this month! No, it's not to do with England finally making it out of the group stages of the World Cup (good try). It's because I'm co-authoring a new book on UX research with my good friend (and regular Userfocus contributor) Philip Hodgson. The book is due to be published next year by Taylor & Francis. We're still in the early stages — even the title changes by the day — and we'd love our newsletter community to help us make some of the decisions: What should we call it? What's the best cover design? How should it be structured? How do you write a book when the World Cup in on TV? If you'd like to join me and Philip on the journey, we have a web page where you can find out more about the book. Back to our regular programming… I'm sure that last month you received more than one of those needy GDPR emails begging you not to leave. But there's another more useful side to this regulation. User researchers can learn something from GDPR, especially when it comes to gaining consent in user research. In this month's article, I explain how it has improved our practice. I hope you find it useful. — David Travis Anatomy of a user research consent formWe've always treated the informed consent process seriously and we have always gained explicit consent from people that take part in our field visits and usability tests. Although I think we do a good job of gaining consent, the advent of GDPR gave us an opportunity to review what we do. We were interested if there was a way we could improve our practice. Read the article in full: Anatomy of a user research consent form From our archives: The missing role in your design teamDesign teams often experience a common set of growing pains. They design for themselves; don't know how to choose between design alternatives; accept poor quality design research; prioritise what users say over what users do; and focus on usability and not on the user experience. Adding an experimental psychologist to your team can help fix these problems. Read the article in full: The missing role in your design team. What we’re readingSome interesting UX-related articles that got our attention over the last month:
Like these? Want more? View our posts on Twitter or Facebook. Upcoming UX training coursesUser Experience Maturity: Strategy and tactics, Sep 13 2018, London.How to pinpoint your team's (and your organisation's) strengths and areas of improvement, so you can deliver your work more effectively. View the full syllabus: User Experience Maturity: Strategy and tactics. Foundation Certificate in User Experience, Sep 25-27 2018, London.3 places sold, 7 places left. In this fun and hands-on training course, you'll practice all the key areas of UX — from interviewing your users through to prototyping and usability testing your designs — while you prepare for and take the BCS Foundation Certificate exam. View the full syllabus: Foundation Certificate in User Experience. UX quotation of the month"Readers now recognize that unintelligible documents are not natural disasters that have to be accepted like summer squalls or sleet storms. Rather they know that poor documents are human artefacts produced by organisations that could be encouraged to take readers' needs more seriously." — Karen A. Schriver. Hungry for more?Want to receive your own copy of this newsletter?Join our community of people interested in user experience. Sent monthly. No spam. |