Designing augmented reality experiences on mobile
Ed JohnstonAugmented Reality and Virtual Reality are on their way to proliferating across the tech industry. How is designing these experiences different from other, more traditional interfaces?
Student Universe vs STA Travel: UX Wars
Tarah Holland, Jordynn McKnight, Nicole McEwan, & Erin TurnerStudent Universe and STA Travel are student-centered travel booking websites. Both websites provide discount flight, hotel, and tour booking services for students. We pitted Student Universe and STA Travel against…
Messenger Madness: How Facebook’s basketball game nails mobile UX
Tim RotoloIn celebration of March Madness, Facebook's Messenger app has released a hidden new basketball game – and the game nails mobile UX in all the right ways. We take a…
A preview of user testing tools to come
What's next for TryMyUI? We're building new user testing tools to solve the biggest challenges of usability testing – see what's in the works!
The importance of being obvious
There is a trend in design towards making things "smarter" – more predictive, more pre-emptive in what they do for users. But when does this trend go wrong, and how…
Nike vs Reebok: UX Wars
Dana Hadjiyane, Jessica Bain, & Aleksandra SimeonovaAt America's colleges and universities, it's not uncommon to see students taking advantage of spacious and beautiful campuses to go for a run. This EDU-contributed UX Wars edition challenged female…
UX Sprint: Iterative usability testing to sculpt the perfect UX
UX Sprint is a new feature aimed at helping you engage in an iterative usability testing cycle that supports and builds on your design progress to measure the impact of…
Dartmouth innovates for new content, new learning opportunities
Karan SaggiDartmouth College is taking a new approach to creating content for their academic department sites by enlisting the help of students to tell their stories.
How to write tasks for effective usability testing
A walk through the exact scenario and tasks we used for the UX Wars: Domino's vs Pizza Hut usability tests, with commentary on why each was included and how we…
Domino’s vs Pizza Hut: UX Wars
Like everything else, pizza is now online. Where is it easiest to order a pizza without dialing a phone? We ran some usability tests on the Domino's and Pizza Hut…