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The City is not a Site Map – World IA Day 2012 Vancouver

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Read and view Gordon Ross’s presentation from World IA Day 2012 Vancouver.

Gestures, Postures and Tap Errors: an observation must for Mobile Usability Testing

Mobile Awkward Hand Posture

The hand-held nature of mobile usability testing introduces three unique usability observation items: postures, gestures and tap errors.

Visualizing Requirements vs. Scope

Customer Requirements vs. Business Requirements - Present / Future

Our diagram illustrates how business and user requirements intersect to form the scope for a project. The diagram is useful to explain where requirements go after being gathered.

Virtual Heart Awarded $1.0M Grant

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St Pauls Hospital researcher and OpenRoad client wins $1.0M grant for web-based chronic disease research.

Please don’t change! Redesigning MEC.ca

BC AMA - BC Chapter of the American Marketing Association

OpenRoad VP Gordon Ross and Mountain Equipment Co-op Web Marketing Manager George Weetman headlined the BCAMA Speakers Series with their talk on redesigning MEC’s e-commerce website.

Georgia Straight Geek Speak: Selma Zafar, Senior UX Designer

Selma Zafar

Our very own Selma Zafar, Senior User Experience Designer at OpenRoad speaks user experience and intranets with the Georgia Straight.

How long should a web page be?

Not long ago, a client asked us the following questions:

How much content should we have on a page? What is an average page length in words?

And somewhat predictably, I answered, “It depends.” But I went one …

UX Wishlist for 2010

With the new year upon us, instead of looking backwards to where we were with usability and user experience design, I prefer to look into the future. Upon reflection of past 10 years in which I have been working in …

2009 Interaction Design Year in Review

With the end of the year upon us, I thought it would be appropriate to take some time to reflect on the evolution of interaction design in this last year. This year proved to be interesting with some positive advancements …

VanUE: World Usability Day 2009

World Usability Day happened on November 12, 2009 this year and a small squad of Vancouver user experience professionals got together at 8am at the Pine St Community Garden to spend the day together, wondering how to best bring our …