Posts about User Experience

Raking ashes: why I hate the Kindle Fire, but might yet learn to love it

20/12/2011
posted by Ben Rubinstein

I've had a Kindle Fire for several weeks now.  In addition to being a soft southerner and an effete intellectual, I'm also a spoiled Apple user - so naturally I hate it.

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Five tips to make your content more useful for teachers

09/11/2011
posted by Chris How

Today is ‘World Usability Day’ an annual and global celebration and promotion of how we can design products and services to be easier to access and simpler to use. The initiative is organised by the Usability Professionals’ Association and this year’s theme is ‘education’.

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UX Brighton – what a good day!

22/09/2010
posted by Cathy Pierce
 
 
After a lively start from Eric Reiss of FatDUX, Dr Dodd talked about the classic work ‘Ogilvy on Advertising’ and gave us a peak at the video “we sell or else’ from 1935. Apart from being a fantastic period piece it also introduced me to the Ogilvy Page Layout of Visual; Caption; Headline; Copy; Contact.
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Cogapp delivers pro bono user experience consultancy to Norwood

Norwood, the winner of our website usability day MOT for charities competition (launched last year for World Usability Day) has now reported back on the free consultancy and user testing we delivered to improve the effectiveness of its online presence and will consequently be making improvements to their website.
 

Usability Professionals' Association event to be sponsored by Cogapp

Cogapp are sponsoring an event on UX competency being held by the UK Usability Professionals' Association (UPA) on Thursday 25th February.

Pete Gale to speak at UX Brighton

Our Head of User Experience, Pete Gale, will be speaking at the next UX Brighton event on Tuesday 9th February.

The National Archives relaunch website using research conducted by Cogapp

The National Archives have recently completed a significant restructuring of their website building on the results of user experience consultancy carried out by Cogapp.

Website usability MOT competition results are announced

The entries for the competition that Cogapp launched in support of World Usability Day on 12th November have now been judged and we're delighted to announce that the winning charity is Norwood. a charity that supports people with learning disabilities and children and families in need.

New National Archives Education site launched

The National Archives' (TNA) online education resource has undergone a radical restructure drawing on the findings of user experience research conducted by Cogapp.

Information Architect joins Cogapp's expanding User Experience Team

Cogapp's User Experience department continues to grow with the addition of Information Architect Chris How. In his new role, Chris will be working with senior team members to design, develop and implement user-centred information architecture and interaction design. He comes to Cogapp with over three years' experience as a User Experience Architect for First Choice Holidays and has also worked in web design and multimedia production for clients such as BBC Worldwide and the Guardian.