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Designing for Novices & Experts, Part 2

Designing for Novices & Experts, Part 2

Back in September 2016, I presented and published at the Society for Technical Communication. This is an amazing professional group of…
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Graphic Design as Foundational to UX: An Interview with Ryan Heffner

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…
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Designing for Novices & Experts, Part 1

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…
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Laurian Vega
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Getting Started in UX: An Interview with Kelly McBeth

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…
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Everyday Usability: Kitchen Edition

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…
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Destinie
Optimizing Less than Ideal Usability Testing

Optimizing Less than Ideal Usability Testing

The benefits of usability testing are undeniable. You get to test your ideas on the fly and pivot relatively fast toward better and more…
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Making SVG Sprites Work

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…
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Designing with Icons

Back to the Basics

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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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Interns for the Next Century

Next Century sponsors a number of interns each summer to come learn about the work we do at Next Century and partner in active projects.We asked three of the Summer 2016 Next Century Interns to talk to us about their experiences and tell us a bit more about themselves.

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Logos for Leadership

As I walk out of my office, I can’t help by take a moment to stop and look at the new picture drawn on the shared whiteboard. There, drawn with precision is a whiteboard-sized depiction of Godzilla, and it is amazing. I didn’t take a picture because I think I became a bit too spoiled. During…

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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…

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Next Century Engineers Mentor UMBC Computer Science Students

By Michael Smolyak

Working at Next Century afforded me a unique opportunity to interact with the Computer Science students studying Software Engineering at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County…

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Stephanie Saylor

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…

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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…

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