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Research methodologies: learn to master them

Introduction: What is a research methodology? Research methodologies are the ultimate tool for UX design in all its different aspects and varieties, from digital design to physical UX design, from service design to customer experience, and from usability to accessibility. These research methodologies guide your research process and can...

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Stop Ignoring Qualitative Research. The definitive guide

Introduction to Qualitative Research Qualitative methodology provides an avenue for exploring the many facets of human experiences and social interactions that are often neglected by purely numerical or statistical approaches. Therefore, qualitative research is one of the cornerstones of UX research. While quantitative methods give us valuable insights through...

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Affordances: are you aware of its importance?

Introduction to Affordances: The Multidisciplinary Concept Definition and Origin Affordance is a term that is applied across various disciplines, including psychology, HCI, architecture, industrial design, and UX. The concept originally encompassed “all possible actions from/with/towards an object.” Over time, other fields, particularly those under the UX umbrella, refined this...

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Design your first Quantum UX project in 7 easy steps

How to design a Quantum UX project? After the introductory article to Quantum UX I received some critical messages (fortunately mostly positive) and some inquiries. In general, these inquiries mostly revolved around the apparent difficulty of designing and implementing a project with Quantum UX. I hope that this article...

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What is XMI design? How does it fit in Quantum UX?

In this article, we will give a brief introduction to XMI. As if we didn’t have too many acronyms already, we keep adding more! If you have read our article Introduction to Quantum UX, it is possible that you noticed a possible shortcoming within the wide variety of concepts...

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The Great History of User Experience – Part 2

This is the second part of the article about the history of user experience, which starts with User Experience History: More than 100 years of amazing wonders. If you came to this page from an external link or search engine, we recommend you start with the first part. The...

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Quantum UX and XCI: towards a powerful UX paradigm

Updated on February 11 , 2020 from the original “A basic intro to Quantum UX and XCI in User Experience.” This article continues on Quantum UX vs Design Thinking. Top 5 differences and quick guide A few months ago we published a sneak peek of our XCI-based UX framework....

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Quantum UX vs Design Thinking. Top 5 differences and quick guide

Design Thinking vs Quantum UX Due to the uniqueness of QUX and its fluid features, definitions alone may not be enough to understand how to use this paradigm. A good way to understand the difference with other frameworks or UX paradigms is a visual comparison. Since the most used...

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Sensory UX: A new approach that improves user experiences

Sensory UX (aka Sensorial UX) is a new branch between the many UX disciplines. One particularity of Sensory UX is that it always existed, even in ancient times. And there were many experiments and inventions that used that paradigm. However, as a clear and more regulated UX field, it...

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Factorial design: A powerful research tool

In this article, we’ll discuss factorial design experiments, a powerful methodology any researcher must know. Like any statistical research technique, it may sound a bit heavy. Therefore, I tried to simplify the contents in order to accurately explain what is factorial design (or factorial experiments) and how to use...

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HCI: Great user experiences are meant only for humans. Or not?

Note: this is a modified extract of one of the chapters of my new book on Multidimensional User Experience or Quantum UX (QUX). Parts of this article appeared in Spanish in a previous article I wrote at UXpanol When we talk about UX or User Experience, we always talk...

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5 Great UX Design Principles of Successful IT Companies

Update: you might be interested in our new list of free tools for UX, UI and Web designers. A hand curated list of 25 free resources we actually tested (we use some of them every day), so no paid links, no referrals, no bias. Hope you like it! This...

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User Experience History: More than 100 years of amazing wonders

User Experience History is as fascinating as the evolution of culture and technology in the 20th century, as it accompanied or even led such evolution! In times where UXD is more common, some people forgot that UXD is not just UI, but much more than that! And it existed...