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This week we're looking forward to...

Feel like venturing out of the office this week? Find out what's going on and how to get in on the action.


This week we're looking forward to...

Feel like venturing out of the office this week? Find out what's going on and how to get in on the action.


Week in review

What's been hot and happening in the world of design and development this week.


Touchy subject: Client education

Is there a real need for clients to understand what UX professionals actually do, or should we be left to get on with the job?


Time for a chat: The Wednesday Interview

This week we talk to SapientNitro's Senior Information Architect about client relationships and looking at the bigger picture.


This weeks Big Debate

It's a subject that gets us hot under the collar: Do bad clients really exist?


This week we're looking forward to...

Feel like venturing out of the office this week? Find out what's going on and how to get in on the action.


Jumping on the blogging bandwagon!

Welcome to UX Media's new blog, a daily dose of what's what and who's who in the world of User Experience.


Ta da! Welcome to the new look UX Media

New year, new focus, new website. That was our mission, and we're pleased to say we've launched today, right on time.


Introducing the all new UX Media (nearly)

A new website is on it's way... 7 days and counting...

Oops

Our phones are playing silly beggars...

A picture says a thousand words

Cool toys we just can't pass without a mention this week include Wordle, a nifty bit of software that creates word clouds from the text you enter.

Beyond the browser: Usability in Mobile Interaction

Great turnout for the first UX Corner event despite the weather!

Secret Santa exceeds all expectations

Santa snuck into our office today and delivered a sack load of fantastic presents while we weren't looking...

What is usability anyway?

You've got four seconds to convince nearly 14 million Internet users that they need to buy your products and services. GO.

When is MVC not MVC? When it's MV of course.

Easily maintainable, on time delivery and completely unit tested? Surely not...

Is Jakob Nielsen the comeback kid?

Has Jakob Nielsen's professional death been greatly exagerated?

All of a Twitter

UX Media become social butterflies (any old excuse to moan, debate, argue and spout off about our opinions)

Bettering Better Bankside

UX Media are pleased to announce our latest collaboration with the Better Bankside BID...

Progressive Enhancement - Overlays with asp.net MVC and jQuery

Progressive enhancement with asp.net MVC and jQuery - Creating dynamical overlay’s that degrade.


Women in Business

Ali talks to other women in business about growing a company from the ground up...

Microsoft finally catch up with us....

Well at long last. Microsoft have finally caught up with UX Media


Cross domain scripting

Adobe have tightened Flash's security model... what are the changes and what do they mean for us?


Lightweight user testing has landed

UX Media has developed a lightweight usability testing service that allows us to run fully observable user tests from any location.

Bright Red launches live site

The Bright Red Publishing website launches in time for the new Scottish school term

The novelty of having three bathrooms...

UX Media has moved to bigger and better premises this month as we bring in more members of the team and facilities to improve our services further.

E-commerce usability - good for users but watch the fraudsters

98 percent of shoppers check for some kind of security before making an online purchase, almost four-fifths would trust a site which had simple, clear payment features regardless of its level of security.


The future's Bright Red

UX Media is delighted to begin development on Bright Red Publishing's new website for the Scottish educational market.


Park Life

UX Media are pleased to provide the editorial content for Bourne Leisure's Owners newsletter, on behalf of Halo Design Associates.


Carnival kicks off 2nd intranet phase

UX Media begins work in partnership with the Carnival UK Group to improve and develop the company's DotNetNuke intranet...


Matt gets Wired

Find out how local businesses can open their web offerings up to a whole new market and read all about UXM Director, Mat Goddard's latest presentation to Wired Wessex...


PDF accessibility

Joe Clark - the king of closed captions - provides some guidelines on making accessible PDF documents


IBM accessibility guidelines

IBM's publish invaluable guidelines on accessibility for the desktop and web


Using FireFox to asses web accessibility

FireFox's developer tool bar has everything a web developer needs to evaluated their website for accessibility, get tooled up with the following guidelines.


Usability@90mph

Rapid user testing - a technique to highlight the business case for user testing.


User Experience in a software development team.

User Experience (UX) design is traditionally seen as the domain of user interface (UI) design, but within a software development team it should mean so much more! UX should permeate through the whole development team. It should influence the way middle tier developers' craft their components and the way database administrators create their tables, stored procedures and views.


Usable....but is it useful

Somethings can be highly 'usable' but if they aren't 'useful' what's the point?


Ethical Media: 58% of disability organisations fail to meet basic WAI guidelines

Ethical Media report that 58% of disability organisation fail to meeting basic WAI guidelines.


DRC: 81% of websites fail to meet basic WAI guidelines

81% of websites fail to meeting basic WAI guidelines.


UsabilityNews: Seeing design in context

Usability exists to understand how to make things functional..user experience exists to make things function while allowing humans engage with each other


Digital Web Magazine: Soft Skills for Information Architecture.

Soft skills for information architecture - it's not all about wireframes and card sorting.


Case studies

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Creating a highly usable information architecture and online insurance purchasing process for the over 50s.

NHS Direct

UX Media are pleased to provide solution architecture and user experience research to NHS Direct's primary health information resource.

B&Q

Leading DIY brand, B&Q, commissioned UX Media to provide user experience services for both their recent website redesign and a review of the online checkout process.