One reason I argue so strongly for designing in accessibility for people with special needs is that accessible design is also good design. Watching people explore a model of Lisbon’s Belem Tower – provided for people with visual impairments – wasContinue reading… Lessons from Lisbon in accessible design
Author: Jane Matthews
An unanswerable survey invitation
“Choose a single question and get it in front of some users” – that’s what I wrote myself in my aims for the survey book I’m currently writing. Evernote recently sent me an email that corresponds to that advice. TheContinue reading… An unanswerable survey invitation
A deep dive into questions
How to ask better questions, and how to assess user experience using surveys, were the themes of the workshop I ran for UXLX – the 2014 User Experience conference held in Lisbon. We focused on the four key areas forContinue reading… A deep dive into questions
Eye Tracking in User Experience Design
Eye tracking can be a valuable tool in understanding how users are interacting with forms and surveys – in order to improve them. It’s a topic I’ve presented on many times, such as in this presentation on Visual Forms to the UKContinue reading… Eye Tracking in User Experience Design
Fun with forms
I admit it: most forms are designed with some serious purpose in mind. But I rejoice when I come across a bit of forms humour. Oatmeal describes how to do a shopping cart This cartoon from the Oatmeal is full of good advice –Continue reading… Fun with forms
Using metrics to help improve a University prospectus
This post, written with Viki Stirling of the Open University, was first published in Tullis, T. and Albert, W. Measuring the User Experience: Collecting, Analyzing, and Presenting Usability Metrics, Morgan Kaufmann/Elsevier 2013. The Open University is the UK’s largest university,Continue reading… Using metrics to help improve a University prospectus
Rhetorical accessibility: at the intersection of technical communication and disability studies
This collection, edited by Lisa Meloncon and just published by Routledge, includes a chapter bringing a more academic spin to the earlier article on designing for accessibility, co-authored with Janice (Ginny) Redish, Kathryn Summers and Kath Straub. That article, DesignContinue reading… Rhetorical accessibility: at the intersection of technical communication and disability studies
Tips for improving your complex forms
Are you working with insurance applications, medical claims or government transactions? This workshop I delivered at UXPA 2013 in Cambridge has tips for improving them. Ideas for design of complex transactions by @cjforms 2013 from Caroline Jarrett View theContinue reading… Tips for improving your complex forms
How to ask better questions and how to assess UX using surveys
These slides are from the first part of a workshop I ran for EBI on user experience surveys. They cover two key topics: how to improve the questions in surveys, and how to assess UX using a survey. Better UXContinue reading… How to ask better questions and how to assess UX using surveys
UX of Transactions
This article first appeared as a chapter in Buie, E. and Murray, D., Usability in Government Systems: User Experience Design for Citizens and Public Servants, Morgan Kaufmann 2012. “This form, this form in particular I am absolutely fine with andContinue reading… UX of Transactions