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User experience: ROI and methods to measure your investment in UX

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The Design Management Institute researched the size of companies’ competitive edge that they called design-centered – but you can see it there as design-driven, user-centric, or “user focus.” It is necessary to narrow the gap between design and development. This is crucial.

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IA Summit 09 - Day 2

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– Karl Fast Do we have the conceptual tools necessary for designing with next-generation technologies? Karl Fast , professor in the Information Architecture & Knowledge Management program at Kent State University, argues that our conceptual tools for interaction design are more limited, and limiting, than we currently believe.

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User Experience Research at Scale

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Finally, the article goes on to propose a methodology that allows for an adjustable balance between a department’s user research and product design and highlights the evolution of trends, best practices, and common avoidances found within the user research industry, especially as they relate to SaaS-based products. Different from analytics.

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