Thoughts

Our thoughts, ideas, news and views that make us passionate about customer experience.

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Information Architecture and the ‘First Click’

1 March 2016

Customers can be confused if website menus don’t offer a single clear choice about where to click first. Why is this important?

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And the winner is … User Vision!

22 January 2016

It’s not often we get to blow our own trumpet, and so it is a wonderful thing to have reason to do so.

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World Usability Day – What are you looking at?

21 January 2016

In keeping with the theme of innovation, Abi Reynolds and I decided to showcase some of the recent advances in eye tracking technology at our 2015 World Usability Day event.

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Five steps to airline website accessibility

15 January 2016

Following the United States Department of Transportation (DOT) ruling that airline websites must meet WCAG 2.0 Level AA accessibility standards, air carriers are looking for solutions. If you are struggling to get the approach right, then User Vision can help…

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UX Song of the month: No Surprises

21 December 2015

Now, being a Radiohead song, there’s nothing peppy here. The song’s protagonist is clearly in some distress, singing about “a job that slowly kills you” and “a handshake of carbon monoxide.”

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Renewing my visa, or how a poor user experience cost me £500

17 December 2015

Having now been in the UK for two years and nine months, I recently found myself needing to renew my visa in order to continue living and working here.

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Bringing CPUX Training to the UAE

9 December 2015

Following the success of our first Certified Professional for Usability & User Experience Foundation training course in the UK this year, we are delighted to bring this to the UAE market in January 2016!

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World Usability Day – Top Tasks activity

1 December 2015

Since my background is in Information Architecture (IA), I thought I would introduce our World Usability Day guests to what I think is an innovative technique for assessing user needs through the Top Task Identification method.

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World Usability Day – ‘Problems to Prototypes’ Workshop

27 November 2015

In light of this year’s theme of ‘innovation’, I wanted to highlight the importance of prototyping ideas to generate innovative solutions.

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Topshop’s foray into bPay – wearable tech

23 November 2015

Topshop are pretty on the ball when it comes to trying out new ways of improving the user experience.

Read the article: Topshop’s foray into bPay – wearable tech
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