Chinese Home Site Visits: Tips and Hints

You may only get one opportunity in a home visit and good planning and preparation is important. Here are some tips and hints from recent home site visits in both China and Taiwan.

Wong, Josephine. Apogee (2005). Articles>Usability>Regional>China

A Glimpse of China's Future at User Friendly 2005

After participating in UF2005, I'm left with the impression that the design and usability professions in China are developing at a breakneck speed.

Barlow-Busch, Robert. UXmatters (2006). Articles>Usability>Regional>China

It's All Happening in China

I traveled to Beijing, China for User Friendly 2004 to meet a few of our usability colleagues there. What I found was a large and vibrant usability community.

Quesenbery, Whitney. Usability Professionals Association (2005). Articles>Usability>Regional>China

Product's Usability Testing in China

The usual reference to a product's usability is to its efficiency of use，learnability and satisfaction. With the current development of economy and technology, usability testing has been developed recently in China.

Lin, Qin. uiGarden (2005). Articles>Usability>Regional>China

A Short Commentary on Usability in Northern Europe: Still a Long Way to Go

'Usability', 'user-friendliness', 'user experience' and the like are becoming common buzzwords these days. However, seen from Copenhagen, Denmark, there is still a long way to go. Many businesses and consultants here are beginning to use the terms to promote themselves and their products. The problem is just that: it is used for marketing and image purposes rather than the core of the development process.

Bruhns, Jakob. WebWord (2001). Articles>Usability>Regional>Scandinavia

Usability Half-Way Round the World

Is usability the same in New York as in China? As I thought about it, this is really two questions: Is our professional practice the same? Are we working from the same basic assumptions about how to approach the job of making products and applications work for their users, and do we use the same techniques and methodologies? Do western usability principles apply to a Chinese audience? Can we apply what we have learned from usability tests in the US and Europe, or are cultural differences so great that we must rethink what usability 'means?'

Quesenbery, Whitney. uiGarden (2005). Articles>Usability>Regional>China

Usability in Belgium?

Belgium is renowned for scrumptious chocolates, Trappist beers, canals of Bruges, Flemish painters, cathedrals, and the metropolitan city of Brussels. But few people know about the champions of usability.

Dick, David J. Usability Interface (2005). Articles>Usability>Regional>Belgium

Usability in China: Encore

The leaders of the China UPA chapter wanted to raise the profile of usability engineering and user-centered design in China and create the biggest usability conference in the region.

Szuc, Daniel and Paul J. Sherman. UXmatters (2007). Articles>Usability>Regional>China

Usability in Ireland: We're Just Getting Started

Irish e-commerce is in its infancy and we have made many mistakes, but it is still an exhilarating and exciting industry. webBusters estimates that Irish websites are operating at an efficiency and effectiveness level of only 46%, due to shortsightedness and a failure to properly prepare, plan and test work. In this article Jude Murray of webBusters argues a case for usability in Ireland.

Murray, Jude. Usability Professionals Association (2001). Articles>Usability>Regional>Ireland

Usability: The Irish Experience

Ireland’s meteoric growth and current status as the world’s largest software exporter (larger even than the US) is already the stuff of IT folklore - or at least it is over here in Europe. Such a large and fast-growing industry, which emerged from almost nothing in the space of a dozen years or so, creates an interesting environment for those practicing usability. There is certainly a sizable potential market out there, in the shape of indigenous software houses and major web developments. The question is when the consultancy sector will catch up with them.

Farrell, Tom. WebWord (2001). Articles>Usability>Regional>Ireland

World Usability Day in Brazil

Curitiba, São Paulo and Belo Horizonte were the three cities in Brazil that had events for World Usability Day (WUD) on November 3, 2005. These events marked the formation of the UPA Brazilian chapter.

Holtz Betiol, Adriana. Usability Professionals Association (2005). Articles>Usability>Regional>Brazil