Nov 30, 2017

Launch is just the beginning Issue 45

• User Research
  Combining insight and evidence to make your research findings credible

  You selected goals, found ideal participants, planned and conducted interviews, and have some glaring insights you cant wait to share. But now what?

• User Research
  How to Ask the Right Questions During Customer Research

  No market research and analysts forecasts can give you as much insight and practical data as a well-thought-out customer interview.

• User Research
  Feedback That Gives Focus

  Afraid of your ideas bombing but cant stand having them get ripped apart? Learn to stop worrying and love the feedback process.

• Strategy, Experiments, Process
  Launch is the beginning

  Think of product development like a triathlon.

• Process
  Where Do We Put The UX Tasks?

  How do you combine developer tasks and UX tasks in the sprint backlog?

• Design Patterns
  Identifying and improving bad icons

  Just one bad icon hurts user interaction significantly

• Design Patterns
  Getting the Search Pattern Right

  5 best practices that will help you design better and more usable search mechanisms.

• Persuasive Design
  7 +/- 2 things the you should know about Cognitive Psychology

  A quick rundown of important findings from cognitive psychology

• Design Patterns, Persuasive Design
  Designing great cancellation flows

  So, your products got a leaky bucket problem

• Design Principles
  Hicks Law: Making the choice easier for users

  The more choices you present your users with, the longer it will take them to reach a decision