UX Lex

An evolving, interactive glossary of UX research terms.

It's ironic. Those of us who work in UX, user researchers included, aspire to create terrific user experiences. That’s what we do. But what we have done with our own terminology is to create a mess. Eighty UXers from around the globe began to address that problem in September 2019. Here is a sneak peek of that work. More details, and full credits, to come. Sign up here to get weekly terms in your inbox >>

 

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UCD / User-Centered Design
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UCD / User-Centered Design

User-centred design places the intended user at the center of the design/development process. The practice includes them as frequently as possible within an iterative …

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Usability Research
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Usability Research

Usability research is a specific facet within user experience research. It focuses on defined tasks (e.g. comprehension of an instruction manual, or ease of navigating a website to find something, etc.,) that contribute to the ease and effectiveness of …

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Usability Test
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Usability Test

A usability test comes under the umbrella discipline of usability research. It is a study with a directed, typically task based objective. The focus includes understanding the learnability, efficiency, memorability, error recovery, …

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