Use a notebook Sketch every idea you have Communicate visually Observe your target audience Build prototypes Talk to people without domain knowledge Discuss with people you don't know Never neglect crazy ideas Think about technology later Don't stick to a particular order Test every hypothesis Never just assume things Practice empathy Be satisfied with 'good enough'… Continue reading How to Design Think
Month: November 2016
Pros & Cons of an Industrial Ph.D. Program
From 2013 till 2016 I've done an industrial Ph.D. at Unister GmbH in Leipzig in cooperation with Chemnitz University of Technology. This means that I worked in Unister's R&D department, which at that time developed a novel semantic search engine, and wrote my thesis about the part I contributed to the project. A few days… Continue reading Pros & Cons of an Industrial Ph.D. Program
REFOCUS: Current & Future Search Interface Requirements for German-speaking Users
When looking at current research, there is plenty of existing work inquiring into how users use search engines1 and how future search interfaces could look like2. Yet, an investigation of users' perceptions of and expectations towards current and future search interfaces is still missing. Therefore, at this year's International Conference on WWW/Internet (ICWI '16) my co-author Martin Gaedke… Continue reading REFOCUS: Current & Future Search Interface Requirements for German-speaking Users
Schrödinger’s Website
Before you receive feedback from users, the user experience and usability of your website are both 'good' and 'bad' at the same time.* Through a good design process you can only raise the chances of user experience and usability manifesting as 'good'** once the feedback arrives. * That is, the factors $latex x$ and $latex… Continue reading Schrödinger’s Website
2008 – Tales of Design & User Experience 