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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...
Ethical aspects and principles of usability tests
As part of the psychology degree programme, students must complete a certain number of so-called subject hours for admission to the final thesis. This amounts to a total of around 30 hours and has the function of analysing research from the perspective of...
Which usability test do I need?
In usability testing, two broad categories of tests can be distinguished - namely summative usability tests (summarising results) and formative usability tests ("shaping" the design). Which type of test you need depends on what you...
Usability tests - why they are worthwhile
Usability tests are a popular and promising evaluative method for uncovering problems in the operation of software, websites and apps. In a usability test, a UX researcher (the moderator) observes the behaviour of a user.
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...
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...
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...
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...
Ethical aspects and principles of usability tests
As part of the psychology degree programme, students must complete a certain number of so-called subject hours for admission to the final thesis. This amounts to a total of around 30 hours and has the function of analysing research from the perspective of...
Which usability test do I need?
In usability testing, two broad categories of tests can be distinguished - namely summative usability tests (summarising results) and formative usability tests ("shaping" the design). Which type of test you need depends on what you...
Usability tests - why they are worthwhile
Usability tests are a popular and promising evaluative method for uncovering problems in the operation of software, websites and apps. In a usability test, a UX researcher (the moderator) observes the behaviour of a user.
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...
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...
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...
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Lecture: Breaking down software-based barriers in the design process
Last Wednesday, we gave a presentation at the UIG Spring Conference about a tool that has greatly simplified our design process: Sketch App. Like many project teams, we are constantly asking ourselves where exactly we should start...
Anatomy of a design pitch
A case study of our first pitch experience In the midst of last summer's dog days we were following our morning routines containing smalltalk, twitter coffee, dealing with waking up, more coffee, slowly getting into workmode, opening mail, when - bam! - _the_ email...
Can we overcome Adobetron?
Raise your hand if you are using an Adobe product.Raise your hand if you are satisfied with that product. Hmmm, less hands up the second time around. We felt the same way. As UI designers the Adobe pallet has not been working that well for us lately. We have been...
Our UX Studio was featured in PAGE magazine
We are delighted that our studio has been featured in the leading German design magazine PAGE in the "Portfolio of the Month" section and that we have been recognised by such a respected publication in the design community. As UX designers, we are constantly...
Webmontag Mannheim Talk: On the disappearance of the graphical user interface
Anything, anytime, anywhere? 'In the twenty-first century, the technology revolution will move into the everyday, the small and the invisible. (Mark D. Weiser, XEROX) This week we were invited to the Webmontag in Mannheim, where we gave a short introduction to...
We speak at the Usability Congress 2013 in Frankfurt
We are looking forward to speaking at the "Usability Congress", which takes place on 10 and 11 October in Frankfurt. Our presentation will be part of the "Trends & Innovations" track and will focus on the topic of "NO UI" (No User Interface). NO UI, also known as...
Interview on the topic of self-employment in UX design
The leading magazine for digital design - the "Weave" interviewed us for the Dec / January 2012 print issue on the topic of "Flutterhaft beständig" - our self-employment as UX designers. In the interview we were able to talk about our...
Geekettez at the World Usability Day in Mannheim
We are delighted to be giving a workshop on "UX as a foundation" at the World Usability Day (WUD) in Mannheim. In this workshop, we will take a deep dive into the world of user experience (UX) and show how it is the foundation for successful...