UX

User experience (UX) involves a person's behaviors, attitudes, and emotions about using a particular product, system or service

Don't look for a flying unicorn that can sing, write code, and do UX

Scan any job-posting site to see what a mess the Usability and User Experience (UX) world has got itself into. Job titles such as User experience researcher, user researcher, user experience designer, usability specialist, human factors expert, interaction designer, information architect, user experience expert, user experience architect, user interface designer create an alphabet soup that make it difficult for recruiters to know which candidates are right for which positions.

“OK-Cancel” or “Cancel-OK?” How about both!

For the majority of my career I have worked on enterprise class software applications and websites that were built on, built for, and built with the Microsoft Windows operating system. Dialog boxes (and other user interactions), in this environment typically have an “OK-Cancel” at the bottom.

Internationalization (I18n) and usability

For some US companies or agencies internationalization of their User Interface may just seem like a lot of unnecessary extra work.

They may believe that because they have no current plans to expand beyond the United States they have no reason to internationalize their web-based application.

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