Publication by Miguel Sepulveda.
New disciplines are continually being created as the way we do business evolves. Trends pop up. Some only for a moment, others for the long-run. Entire market niches come into being seemingly out of thin air. Although it’s not always easy to know where these trends come from or where they are headed, the truth of the matter is that they burst forth in a flurry into our daily lives, and suddenly everyone is talking about them.
Although UX has become a buzzword fairly recently, it is not quite as new as it might appear. Don Norman, a cognitive scientist and co-founder of the Nielsen Norman Group Design Consultancy, is credited with coining the term ‘user experience’ in 1995 to explain the broad set of activities that his team was engaged in at Apple Computers. Here’s how he describes it:
Don Norman, Cognitive Scientist & User Experience Architect
UX is not the new kid on the block, but its meaning has evolved quite a bit in recent years. Today, 25 years after the coining of the term, we can define UX in a much more straightforward and simple way: UX is what the user experiences when using your app or website.
In part 1 of our series on user experience (UX) we explored what UX is and why it is important. In this second part we will focus on how culture, language and design come together to deliver a great user experience.
26 July 2020
Events dedicated to localization, such as the 40th edition of Localization World held in Estoril, are a good way to take the pulse of our industry. While most of the discussions inevitably center around the usual suspects - machine translation or globalization, to name just a couple - every once in a full moon, a hidden, wholly unexpected gem makes an appearance on center stage.
6 October 2019