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Laurian Vega in Next Century User Experience

Aug 2, 2017

Designing for Novices & Experts, Part 1

Back in September 2016 I presented and published at the Society for Technical Communication. This is an amazing professional group of technical communicators and user-focused individuals who gather annually. With their summit in Washington DC last year, and…

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Laurian Vega in Next Century User Experience

Aug 29, 2016

The Dreaded Boolean Search

Getting into the nitty gritty of UX and Boolean Search

If we get into our way-back machine and travel all the way back to 1997 here is Jakob Nielsen’s advice regarding search:

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Laurian Vega in Next Century User Experience

May 4, 2018

Designing for Novices & Experts, Part 2

Back in September 2016, I presented and published at the Society for Technical…

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Stephanie Saylor in Next Century User Experience

May 3, 2016

Why words matter on the UI

Explaining the importance of words in user experience.

When you think UX, I doubt the word verbiage jumps into your head. But the truth of the matter is: words guide users. Every good user experience expert wants to…

Destinie in Next Century User Experience

Feb 4, 2017

Everyday Usability: Kitchen Edition

As User Experience engineers, we are always analyzing the world around us, and concepts that we employ for software are not solely limited to the designs we create. We may unconsciously apply our techniques to what we see and do on a daily basis. I like to call this…

Laurian Vega in Next Century User Experience

Mar 4, 2017

Getting Started in UX: An Interview with Kelly McBeth

When I first started at Next Century Kelly McBeth was so excited about User Experience, but she wasn’t yet working in the field. Yet, there was a light in her eye when she talked about making amazing and beautiful software. You could…

Laurian Vega in Next Century User Experience

Nov 29, 2016

Making SVG Sprites Work

When used properly, icons can be powerful elements in your web application’s design. They can represent common actions and serve as visual guides to help users in their tasks. Because of this, we have decided to write a third post on the topic of logos and iconography in order to…

Laurian Vega in Next Century User Experience

Mar 29, 2016

Finding the UXicorn: Our Process to Finding a GREAT UX Generalist

Look at any online post for a UX Professional on LinkedIn or GlassDoor and it appears as though everyone is looking for a UX Unicorn — or even a UXicorn, if you forgive the pun. You know what I’m talking about. The UX…

Laurian Vega in Next Century User Experience

Jun 7, 2016

Translator and Negotiator: A UX Interview with Melissa Carraway

Melissa Caraway works at Next Century as a Human Factors Engineer. Together we have worked to design and build software for the government and have conquered some unique design situations. From designing a product with…

Laurian Vega in Next Century User Experience

Nov 23, 2017

Graphic Design as Foundational to UX: An Interview with Ryan Heffner

Ryan Heffner was the first person at Next Century that I interviewed and said ‘yes’ during the hiring process. I was so impressed. Here was this low key super kind and funny guy that created some of the most…

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Next Century delivers a new class of insightful, intuitive, and efficient technology solutions for healthcare, national security, and corporate security industries. In this blog we focus on what it is like to create, evaluate, and design software.

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