Steve Bromley - User Research

Usability and User Research for Websites, Software and Games

Selling Usability by John Rhodes Book Review

Last month, the UX Brighton Book Club read Selling Usability, a new book by John Rhodes that claims to reveal the secrets to infiltrating usability and UX practises into your workplace. Having not finished the book by the time of the meeting, I missed what the UX Brighton people thought of Selling Usability, however I’m…

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Happy New Decade

Welcome to 2010, hope everyone had a great holiday. Straight back onto UX issues - For my HCI Coursework, I'm designing a new product, with a focus on evaluating the user requirements - To do this, I've made a survey (keeping in mind the issues I raised on

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How real-world game usability testing is changing

Recently I visited a global game publishers' usability lab in London to help out for a day, and participated running UX tests on the current revision of an upcoming game. The experience was extremely educational, and enjoyable, and changed my perception of integrating usability within an established company. Unlike the academic settings in which I…

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Five essential iPhone apps for usability professionals

As you may have noticed, I like my iPhone. But the iPhone is not just for

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Game Usability: Advancing the Player Experience Book Review

I’ve recently finished reading Game Usability: Advancing the Player Experience, edited by Noah Schaffer and Katherine Isbister, which (as its title may suggest) tries to give a complete overview of the field of usability within computer games. Game usability is a relatively new topic, yet all the key figures of the field are included in…

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