Technology is evolving fast, and so are our jobs. A few years ago, designers were in charge of UX/UI, and our role was mostly executional. Our work typically began after the product manager had completed communication with stakeholders and the discovery phase was finished. Only then would the product manager involve the designer to initiate user research and begin execution.
...Recently I bumped into a job opening about a Web Developer who, among other qualifications, he/she should have “a good eye for UX”. I’ve also heard and read about companies that the UX research is done by people that “are good” in understanding user needs, like product managers or developers. And this is ok.
I don’t want to deep dive...
In the Workable blog, I wrote about what goes on behind the scenes when designing our solution for accessibility. Read the full article here.
User experience is most commonly associated with any human-computer interaction and it is used to describe the way people react to a system. We build things for people, so how they experience their interaction with these things is maybe what matters most.
User experience is strongly connected with Web accessibility. Web accessibility is making products and services available to all...
In my last blog post, I mentioned that there is a high probability of a user to leave a website in the first 10 seconds. Things nowadays move fast and in the online world, things move faster. Recent studies have proven that human now has shorter attention span than goldfishes, due to digital technology. Users don’t want (and won’t)...
The title above could be the answer to the question: “Why should I care about website usability?”.
The average page visit lasts a little less than a minute and the probability of leaving in the first 10 seconds is very high. In fact, people usually leave quick or stay long. Pages with a clear value proposition can...
Do you remember when it was the first time in your life that you opened a door, switched on a light, wore your shoes or nailed something on the wall? I bet that you can’t recall how you knew the way to do it…you just did.
The main reason you can open a door is because all the doors are...
I recently subscribed to userfocus newsletter and they sent me for free a graphic instructional guide about how to moderate a usability test. I think it is very interesting and helpful, so I translated it into Greek.
You can get the translated version directly or you can subscribe to userfocus newsletter and get the guide in English...
It’s a fact: people won’t use a website if they can’t find their way around it.
Looking for things in a website and looking for them in the real world have a lot of similarities. In many aspects of our life, we need signs of where we are and how we got there. We tend to...
Selectors offer a lot of flexibility and (if used correctly) may reduce many lines of code, such as overrides.
The following are not my favorite selectors; I'm not so nerd to have favorite selectors. They are some that, even if I don't use them very often, I find useful and sometimes can save you from the trouble of...
Ok this is going to be a big wall of text.
I decided to write this post as I have read a lot about usability testing but I have conducted very few tests, so things are a bit fuzzy in my head. Of course, in our everyday life we test usability: we watch people using their mobile...
When I first attended a conference, I was in a super junior level and I hardly understood what they were talking about when coding was involved. Long story short, it left me a feeling that developers hate each other. To be more precise, people involved in web hate each other. That day, I heard some good talks and some boring...