UX

Balancing Privacy and User Experience: The Challenge of the Digital Age

If companies fail to meet heightened data protection standards and other growing customer expectations around privacy and respect for their data, they may be fined, lose customer trust, and possibly put the entire company at...

In Chicago, It’s Hot to Study How People Interact Online

People who build technology want you to have the most simple—and emotionally satisfying—experience possible. That's why more and more students are studying UX, or user experience, design. There are many subtleties in how understanding how...

Marissa Mayer on Bringing Users Closer to the Product

In this session from Techonomy 2011 in Tuscon., Ariz., Marissa Mayer, CEO of Yahoo! and former Vice President of Consumer Products at Google, describes an exercise her team participated in to bring Google's users closer...

Maelle Gavet of Ozon.ru on How ‘Offline’ Ideas Can Help Business

Ozon.ru is Russia's biggest online retailer, but its business is built on an offline foundation. In this video from Techonomy 2011 in Tucson, Ariz., Ozon.ru CEO Maelle Gavet discusses how cultural quirks unique to Russia...