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User Experience: The Magazine of the Usability Professionals' Association. Published four times a year.

 

Volume 7 Issue 2
User Research Meets Market Research
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  • Selling the Sizzle: The importance of managing expectations
  • From Good to Great: Blending Traditional Market Research and Usability Methods for Online Marketing Effectiveness
  • A Clever Startup: Combining qualitative and quantitative UX research
  • Zooming In and Zooming Out: Real-life customer experience research
  • Experience Schematics: Diagramming the user experience
  • And it was Just Right: Stories and narrative in the development process
  • What's News: Lassoing the Web
  • The View from Here: Jazz Brand

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Volume 7 Issue 1
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  • A Mandate for Usability: Mexican Manifesto on Usability and Accessiblity for Government Websites
  • ¿Habla español? Testing and Designing for U.S. Latino Users
  • Absent, Ill-Defined, and Devalued: Usability in Technology Research Firm Software Evaluations
  • The Power of Goals
  • Using Acting to Validate a Wearable Product Concept with Users
  • Visualizing Success: How User-Centered Design Drives Real Business Results
  • What's News: I Think, Therefore I Can
  • Book Review: Just Ask by Shawn Lawton Henry

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Volume 6 Issue 4
Usability in Healthcare
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  • Social Health Networking
  • Resuscitating the User Experience
  • Learning about Clinical Trials
  • Patient Safety and Usability
  • Capturing User Requirements in Health and Social Care
  • The View from Here: A Perfect Storm in the ICU
  • What's News: Demonstrating the Usability of Medical Records
  • Book Review: Seeing the World Through a Differently Wired Brain

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Volume 6 Issue 3
Interactive TV and Mobile Video
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  • What Shall We Watch Tonight?
  • You Can Run but You Cannot Hide
  • Designing Interactive TV with Users in Mind
  • Using Quick Surveys for Website Task Analysis
  • Positioning Field Studies for Company and Customers
  • The View from Here: Game Over
  • Book Review: What a Character!

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Volume 6 Issue 2
The Business of Usabilty
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  • Aligning UX Strategy with Business Goals
  • Usability ROI as a Strategic Tool
  • UX Increases Revenue: Two Case Studies
  • The People’s Money Machines: Automatic Teller Machines in China
  • What You Should Know About the Semantic Web

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Volume 6 Issue 1
Usability Around the World: World Usability Day 2006
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  • A World Usability Day Case Study: Conducting Multinational Expert Reviews
  • World Usability Day 2006: Forty Thousand People Hear How to Make Life Easier
  • Design Competitions Succeed in Spreading the Usability Message
  • Creating a Global Team and a Global Infrastructure

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Volume 5 Issue 4
World Wide Government
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  • A New Website Architecture for Salisbury District Council
  • Learning Lessons from Citizen Involvement @ Aberdeenshire Council
  • In the Service of Citizens: Persuasion is Fine but Legislation is Quicker
  • Encouraging Participatory Democracy: A Study of Thirty Government Websites
  • The View from Here: E-Government Needs to Do More to Ensure Citizens’ Privacy

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Volume 5 Issue 3
Usable Sound

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  • Finding Uses for New Technology: Moving with a Magic Thing
  • Cultural Probes: Understanding Users in Context
  • Alarm Reliability: What If an Alarm Goes Off
    and No One Hears It?
  • Point, Counterpoint: What Three Experts Say
    about Speech Usability
  • Auditory Displays in Healthcare

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Volume 5 Issue 2
Usability Around the Pacific Rim
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  • Radio Frequency Identification: Nearly Invisible, Almost Everywhere
  • Communication Gap: Designing an Interface for Chinese Migrant Workers
  • Usability Around The Pacific Rim
  • Editor's Note: Go East, Young Man or Woman
  • What's News: Speck-tacular Computers
  • The View from Here: Who Would Want to Do Usability?

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Volume 5 Issue 1
Usability for the Planet

2006 - Volume 5 Issue 1
  • Designing an Arabic User Interface: Methods and Techniques for Bridging Cultures
  • Usability for the Planet: World Usability Day 2005
  • Developing a Symbol System for the Healthcare Industry
  • Analyze This: A Task Analysis Primer for Web Design
  • User Experience: What? So What? Now What?
  • Personal Usability: How Can We Make Ourselves More Usable to Others?

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Volume 4 Issue 4
Really: How Many Users Do You Need?

2005 - Volume 4 Issue 4
    • Becoming Agile: Usability and Short Project Cycles
    • When to Test and When to Hold Off: Wait If Major Problems Mask Minor Ones
    • Designing Tests to Get What You Need: Practical Tips for Dealing with Limited Numbers of Participants
    • What to Report:Deciding Whether an Issue is Valid
    • Mullet and Sano–A Decade On
    • The Market Value of Technology: Revenge of the Consumers

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Volume 4 Issue 3
Matters of Life and Death
    • Usability and Living Wills
    • How to Avoid Cheating Yourself or Stiffing Your Clients
    • How to Make Your Interfaces International
    • Do's And Don'ts When Localizing Art
    • A Is for Apple, B Is for Browser
    • Speaking to Market Researchers
    • Better Business with User Experience: Another Consultant's Perspective
    • Design for the Real World: The Next Billion Users

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Volume 4 Issue 2
Moving into the Executive Suite

 

  • Usability Testing at a Distance
  • Revolutionizing TV with User-Centered Design and Research
  • When the Best Design Isn't Good Enough: An Interview with Larry Marine and Carl Zetie
  • Staying Alive: Paying Attention to Human Factors. An Interview with Kim Vicente
  • Why Aren't You in Charge?
  • Cautionary Advice from a Usability Zealot

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Spring 2005
Usable Voting
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  • The View from Here by Congressman Rush Holt
  • A Day of Poll Watching
  • On the Ground by the UPA Voting and Usability Project
  • It's All in the Eye of the User
  • And Now for Something Completely Different…
  • Driving Design

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Winter 2004
Power Play
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  • Why We Play Games
  • Getting Gamers
  • Show Your Feelings
  • Are We Having Fun Yet?

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Fall 2004
Going Global: Usability around the world

 

  • Time Warp
  • Swimming Upstream
  • Continental Divide
  • Breaking Barriers

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Spring 2004
Citizen-centric Computing
  • Peak Performance
  • True Crime
  • Keeping Your Distance
  • The Requirements Rift
  • The Group Connection
  • Six Degrees of Separation

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Fall/Winter 2003 Issue
  • The Screen Scene
  • Ready for a Test Drive
  • Pretending to be You
  • How Usable is Your Art?
  • Book Review: Designing Smarter Sites
  • The View from Here: The Challenge of Change

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Spring/Summer 2003
  • East meets West
  • Bridging the Gap
  • High Tech versus High Touch
  • Form Follows Function
  • Going Global
  • Select Reads
  • Being Blue in a Green World

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Summer 2002 Issue
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  • Design for the Next Wave: Wearable Computers
  • Not Remotely Entertaining
  • Computer Crazy: Questionable Experiences
  • Lessons Learned: Looking at Both Sides
  • The Big Dig: Mining Nuggets of Value

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Winter 2001 Issue
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  • What Business Are You In? The Importance of Strategic Usability
  • CyberSmart Managers: The Second Technology Revolution Requires a New Kind of Manager
  • Designing for Children
  • Usability's Changing Image
  • Products That Changed the World
  • Web Experience: E-Commerce Smash-Mouth
  • Applied Research: Bridging the Gap Between Research and Practice

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