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Year: 2009

23
Dec 2009

Merry Christmas!

It’s almost the end of the year. Despite the recession, 2009 has been an exciting year full of challenging projects and hard work. We’re taking..

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26
Nov 2009

Emirates Ranks Highest In International Airline Web Site Localization Study

This year the User Experience Alliance (UXalliance), a global network of leading user research firms, celebrated World Usability Day by unveiling the preliminary findings of..

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26
Nov 2009

Handbook of Global User Research

Edited by Robert Schumacher, the Handbook of Global User Research is the first book to focus on global user research. The book collects insight from..

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17
Nov 2009

The Risks of Socially Embodied Technology

In the design of social media, our task is to provide a medium and context for human interaction.  With this power, the behaviour of our..

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13
Oct 2009

Yu Centrik speaking at Cleverbridge networking event

Jay Virdyarthi User Experience Designer & Research Coordinator at Yu Centrik will be a speaker at Cleverbridge’s  Networking Event which will be held in Montreal,..

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29
Sep 2009

Digital Etiquette

Engaging with socially-powered technology for the past decade, I’ve noticed the slow, natural formation of ‘digital etiquette’.  In the same way that researchers have found..

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24
Sep 2009

Yu Centrik: Canadian Partner of UXalliance

Montreal, September 24th 2009 – Yu Centrik, an independent firm specialized in usability and user experience, is proud to announce its partnership with UXalliance. UXalliance..

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14
Sep 2009

Captcha tests (2/2): Alternatives and Best Practices

In a previous bulletin, I was talking about captcha tests, their reason for being, and how easy it is to bypass the system. I also..

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10
Sep 2009

Using Flash to Prototype Voice Interfaces

It is often necessary to use fairly complex tools to perform usability tests on voice interfaces (cf. Nexus[1], Database Systems Corp.[2]). One of our projects..

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10
Aug 2009

New Major Projects

We are proud to announce several new projects with Cirque du Soleil, TD Insurance, Intuit Canada and Taleo. These projects each involve a user-centered approach;..

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