Posts about User Experience

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.

Cogapp to work on fourth user experience project with Transport for London

Amidst strong competition, we've secured a fourth user experience project with Transport for London following on from a string of successful projects earlier in the year.

Cogapp will be conducting user research into a website being developed by TfL to support an exciting new scheme in Central London. We are looking to deliver the project in June 2009.

Having worked together on three separate projects already this year, this latest collaboration cements the flourishing relationship between our rapidly evolving user experience team and TfL.

National Archives Readers' Screens get a usability overhaul

Image from the National Archives

We've recently completed our latest project for the National Archives, a usability review of key elements of the electronic system which visitors use to reserve archived documents. The project was won in March as the result of a competitive tender process.

Mega Dropdown Menus

MEGA is my favourite word of the moment, and completely coincidentally (unless he's spying on me), our old mate Jakob Nielsen is feeling the vibe too in this article about mega dropdowns.

What he's saying is that you can cut out the need for landing pages by having a mega dropdown like this:

Mega Dropdown Menus

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