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UX myths debunked: Measuring UX - it's the *how* that counts!
In our fast-paced digital world, where customer and user satisfaction can make or break a product or service, understanding the value of user experience (UX) is of paramount importance.
The game for the energy transition - MDR reports on the first tests of the GrowFlowFly project
Our User Research and Experience Design Studio BIRD UX has been working since autumn 2023, together with Claudius Brodman, on the user experience and visual layout of the GrowFlowFly research project, a joint project of the Technical University of Munich (TUM),...
How design principles drive even the smallest company forward
Limited time, limited resources and few people who have too many tasks to do - that's what everyday life is like for many start-ups and small companies. In this setting, it is common to take responsibility for things that are not your own expertise.
UX myths debunked: UX design is only relevant for websites and apps
There are many misconceptions circulating in the world of user experience design that distort and diminish the importance of the discipline. From the assumption that UX is a purely aesthetic discipline to the belief that it is impossible to measure UX, there are...
A petition for a digital inclusivity countdown
A few weeks ago, we attended an event organised by Digital Media Women Rhein-Neckar and Business Professional Women Mannheim-Ludwigshafen, a "Future Talk" panel on the digital gender gap, which, among other things, highlights the different levels of digitalisation among men and women....
Together for a sustainable future! Start of cooperation with the TU Munich in the joint project GrowFlowFly
Together with the Technical University of Munich (TUM) as project coordinator, as well as the partners Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg (MLU), RWTH Aachen University (RWTH) and aratall GmbH, Osnabrück, we are working with Claudius Brodmann...
The taz publishing house successfully goes online with a new design of the publishing pages
In September this year, the renowned taz publishing house carried out a relaunch that marked the start of a new chapter for taz, as the publisher replaced the printed newspaper during the week with a purely digital one. The aim was therefore to create a focus...
We turn 12! Happy Birthday to us!
Today we are celebrating our 12th studio anniversary🎈🥳! Since our foundation in 2011, we have worked tirelessly to establish the topic of UX and user research in organisations, helped to drive great and innovative solutions, and partly...
UX Camp Europe 2023 Berlin: We were there!
This year's UX Camp Europe took place in Berlin on 4 and 5 June with around 500 participants from all over the world. The event has been organised annually in Berlin since 2009 and is one of the largest UX barcamps to come out of the European UX...
UX myths debunked: Measuring UX - it's the *how* that counts!
In our fast-paced digital world, where customer and user satisfaction can make or break a product or service, understanding the value of user experience (UX) is of paramount importance.
The game for the energy transition - MDR reports on the first tests of the GrowFlowFly project
Our User Research and Experience Design Studio BIRD UX has been working since autumn 2023, together with Claudius Brodman, on the user experience and visual layout of the GrowFlowFly research project, a joint project of the Technical University of Munich (TUM),...
How design principles drive even the smallest company forward
Limited time, limited resources and few people who have too many tasks to do - that's what everyday life is like for many start-ups and small companies. In this setting, it is common to take responsibility for things that are not your own expertise.
UX myths debunked: UX design is only relevant for websites and apps
There are many misconceptions circulating in the world of user experience design that distort and diminish the importance of the discipline. From the assumption that UX is a purely aesthetic discipline to the belief that it is impossible to measure UX, there are...
A petition for a digital inclusivity countdown
A few weeks ago, we attended an event organised by Digital Media Women Rhein-Neckar and Business Professional Women Mannheim-Ludwigshafen, a "Future Talk" panel on the digital gender gap, which, among other things, highlights the different levels of digitalisation among men and women....
Together for a sustainable future! Start of cooperation with the TU Munich in the joint project GrowFlowFly
Together with the Technical University of Munich (TUM) as project coordinator, as well as the partners Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg (MLU), RWTH Aachen University (RWTH) and aratall GmbH, Osnabrück, we are working with Claudius Brodmann...
The taz publishing house successfully goes online with a new design of the publishing pages
In September this year, the renowned taz publishing house carried out a relaunch that marked the start of a new chapter for taz, as the publisher replaced the printed newspaper during the week with a purely digital one. The aim was therefore to create a focus...
We turn 12! Happy Birthday to us!
Today we are celebrating our 12th studio anniversary🎈🥳! Since our foundation in 2011, we have worked tirelessly to establish the topic of UX and user research in organisations, helped to drive great and innovative solutions, and partly...
UX Camp Europe 2023 Berlin: We were there!
This year's UX Camp Europe took place in Berlin on 4 and 5 June with around 500 participants from all over the world. The event has been organised annually in Berlin since 2009 and is one of the largest UX barcamps to come out of the European UX...
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Making informed decisions and prioritising requirements with personas and journey maps
Research-based personas and the resulting user/customer journeys simplify requirements and product development enormously, as they help to identify optimisation potential. This in turn helps to make well-founded decisions about...
What UX experts can learn from journalists.
The problem with surveys as a design research tool. Yes, we know: using surveys for ux research allow the collection of large amounts of data in a relatively short time. This is why there is conventional wisdom that surveys are easy and cheap, which is not entirely...
New website for the Franco-German Citizens' Fund
We created the concept, the information architecture and the UI design for the relaunch. The revised website of the Franco-German Civic Fund now presents itself with a clear user interface, a user-centred design and a user-friendly interface.
We are delighted to receive bronze at ADC 2021 for the taz app.
Our client taz, die tageszeitung has made it onto the winners' podium of the Art Directors Club (ADC) with its new app! The app was honoured with a bronze nail in the category "Editorial - Newspaper - Redesign". To emphasise the future viability...
UX trends: what's coming, what's staying in 2020?
Happy twenty twenty! We hope you've all had a good start to the new year! Although it's almost the middle of January, the question remains: What's coming up in the new year? What topics and questions are we likely to face this year as user experience designers?
Lecture: The ROI of a positive user experience
Last week, we were invited to give a presentation on the ROI of a positive user experience at the c't in Cologne. We were delighted with the enquiry, as the conference primarily deals with topics relating to front-end development. With ROI...
Common Voice Project Goes Multilingual
Das großartige Common Voice Projekt, an dem wir gemeinsam mit Mozilla gearbeitet haben, hat gerade ein wichtiges Upgrade erhalten:„Today, Mozilla officially kickstarts the process of collecting voice data for three more languages: French, German, and, a little random,...
10 questions for Voice User Interfaces
Viele Jahre lang konzentrierten sich Interface- und Interaktionsdesigner*innen auf grafische Benutzeroberflächen (GUIs). In jüngster Zeit haben jedoch natürliche Sprach-Schnittstellen (Natural Language User Interfaces, NLUIs oder Voice User Interfaces) an Bedeutung...
Deutsche Post's postage stamp machine vs. humans
6 UX flaws to avoid if you want to design stories with happy endings Last week I was standing in line to get a post stamp at the German post office. A task that can be done at the counter but also at annoying machines that give out 1 cent stamps (instead of change) if...
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We turn 12! Happy Birthday to us!
Today we are celebrating our 12th studio anniversary🎈🥳! Since our foundation in 2011, we have worked tirelessly to establish the topic of UX and user research in organisations, helped to drive great and innovative solutions, and partly...
UX Camp Europe 2023 Berlin: We were there!
This year's UX Camp Europe took place in Berlin on 4 and 5 June with around 500 participants from all over the world. The event has been organised annually in Berlin since 2009 and is one of the largest UX barcamps to come out of the European UX...
We Are Female Founders
The Female Founders Map of the GIG7 Competence Centre FeMale Business in Mannheim is online. Of course, our Mannheim office can also be found on it. The campaign was launched to celebrate the 20th anniversary of the GIG7 Competence Centre FeMale Business and...
Lecture: UX maturity and what it means for your project
UX maturity is omnipresent in projects, whether it is discussed or not. This is because UX maturity describes a company's understanding of user-centred design & its capacity to systematically work and deliver user-centred results.
Lecture: UX - but inclusive please: A plea for a feminist perspective on HCI
"Technology is not neutral. We're inside of what we make, and it's inside of us. We're living in a world of connections - and it matters which ones get made and unmade". - Donna Haraway, 1997 Last year, we contributed to two events at the same time...
It's a man's world: programmed by men - for men
At the beginning of March, Stefanie was interviewed for the Deutsche Welle programme "Shift". The topic: Equality in design - why does it matter? In the middle part of the programme, Stefanie talks briefly about the fact that digital technology is primarily...
The City of Mannheim's equality action plan has been adopted. We were allowed to contribute to it!
Equality and inclusivity is a topic that is close to our studio's heart, and not just in the context of our projects. That's why we immediately and enthusiastically agreed when we were asked by the city's Charter Advisory Board "for equality between women and men at local level" to...
New website for the Franco-German Citizens' Fund
We created the concept, the information architecture and the UI design for the relaunch. The revised website of the Franco-German Civic Fund now presents itself with a clear user interface, a user-centred design and a user-friendly interface.
We are delighted to receive bronze at ADC 2021 for the taz app.
Our client taz, die tageszeitung has made it onto the winners' podium of the Art Directors Club (ADC) with its new app! The app was honoured with a bronze nail in the category "Editorial - Newspaper - Redesign". To emphasise the future viability...