Features don’t matter. Products don’t matter. Outcomes matter. People matter. How does your product benefit the people? What’s the outcome of using your product?

By Lis Hubert


Learning the business of funding and budgeting to advance the cause of UX.




How many times have you seen your hard work go down the drain because it is "out of scope" or "not in budget?" How many times have you been shot down, disappointed, or unmotivated because no matter how well designed and researched your solution is, it simply cannot be done? How can we, as UX designers, stop this cycle from happening? And more importantly, how can we bring experience design into the conversation at a higher level so experience-driven strategies and planning aren't determined solely on project budget, but instead are agreed upon before the budget has even been determined? How? Easy: we need to learn where the money comes from.

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By Patrick Malecek


Results of a survey investigating job satisfaction among usability practitioners.




Survey research conducted in the fall of 2010 investigating job satisfaction among usability practitioners and how satisfaction is impacted by employer type, organizational placement, and other factors.

Preface
A couple of things before we begin…

"Usability" vs. "UX" vs. whatever else we call ourselves
Throughout this article, I use the terms "usability" and "UX" interchangeably. I know there are differences and specialization within the general field of usability. This article (and the survey behind it) aims to include the many different types of usability-related work under the general banners of usability and UX. Every survey respondent was presented with this preface:

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By John Yunker


Ensuring users quickly and easily find content for their location and language.




Any company with global aspirations will eventually tackle the globalization of its website. Apple, for example, has in the past few years more than doubled the number of languages it supports. And Facebook now supports more than 70 languages.

But translation is just one aspect of a global Web strategy. It's one thing to localize websites for users around the world, but another thing to ensure users quickly and easily find these localized websites.

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