Executing HFE studies internally is often far more complex and time-consuming than drug delivery device development teams realize. MUS recently published part one of a two-part article detailing the factors that need to be considered by device development teams in order to produce high-quality usability testing data appropriate for decision-making and HFE optimization while … Continue reading Understanding Costs And Risks For HFE Usability Studies — Part 1: Testing In-House
MUS Executes Complex Multi-City Study to Explore Disparities in Actual Use of Complex Drug Delivery Devices vs. Expected HFE Performance Based on Summative FDA Study Data. There is an interesting phenomenon occurring in the actual real-world use of more complex drug delivery devices by patients and HCPs. The problem is there is a wide disparity … Continue reading Recent Research: Real-World Usability Testing
How Do Development Teams Produce World-Class Products? For consumer-facing hardware or software to have high levels of usability and UX quality, they must undergo rigorous professional usability testing before design freeze. Such professional testing must make use of a wide range of mockups, simulations, and functional prototypes. It turns out that such testing is a fundamental … Continue reading Why Professional Usability Testing Matters
Wall Street And Hardware SNAP is the quintessential example of spinning gold from code. This is not to take away from SNAP’s apparent success as a virtual social media platform and possible business performance. Although the quarterly reports are, in real cash flow terms, terrifyingly low for such a staggering market cap, and marketers are not flocking to … Continue reading How 4 Simple Usability Heuristics Could Have Saved SNAP Glasses
Spinning gold from code This is an object lesson in why hardware design is exceedingly difficult for software businesses. It is always an interesting exercise to watch a software-based and cloud-delivered business, even a very clever one with a massive user base and a seemingly successful business model, attempt hardware design. There is a certain arrogance … Continue reading Why SNAP Spectacles Failed: A Detailed Professional Usability Heuristics Analysis
Important peer-reviewed and informally published recent research on user interface design and user experience (UX) design. For the benefit of clients and colleagues we have culled a list of approximately 70 curated recent research publications dealing with user interface design, UX design and e-commerce optimization. In our opinion these publications represent some of the best … Continue reading User Interface Design and UX Design: 80+ Important Research Papers Covering Peer-Reviewed and Informal Studies
What is simplicity worth; to Cisco Systems apparently quite a lot. One can visualize the PowerPoint deck from Cisco’s investment banking group showing how acquisition of Pure Digital Media (maker of the Flip Video Camera) would: A) be a potentially decent financial investment and B) would imbue Cisco, a company whose products are arguably among … Continue reading Why Cisco flipped over the Flip Video Cam (and paid $590 million for a small dose of simplicity)
