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We've tested many methods for encouraging people to scroll down a page. Content about the great stuff the website has further down, bouncing arrows saying scroll for more, you name it. The method that seems to work best is hinting; The top of the content below the 'fold' can be seen partially cut off by the bottom. of the viewport. It's the cut off that seems to makes it work

Another tip from our upcoming UX courses in Auckland. If you need to test proposed navigation IA for a website or app but don't have a testable design yet consider tree testing. It's a great way to get quick validation of proposed menu labels and grouping.

Create a tree menu of your proposed design (see pic) then give people tasks (e.g 'show us how you would send us a message') to see if they can navigate using your menu item. There are lots of great tools that let you do this easily such as NZ's own https://www.optimalworkshop.com/treejack/

Ticket sales for our Auckland UX series close this week! Get them here: https://uxgym.com/courses

There are just under three weeks till we run our Auckland UX series, and ticket sales will close at the end of next week.

If you have been putting it off we recommend you enrol now. Get your tickets now for one, or more, (or all!) here:

https://www.uxgym.com/courses

UX Crash Course

A hands-on introduction to user experience design
Monday, August 21, 2023
Design Research

Get started in user and customer research
Tuesday, August 22, 2023
User Interface (UI) Design

An introduction to interaction design for screens
Wednesday, August 23, 2023
Usability Testing and Prototyping

Learn about testing designs and creating design prototypes
Thursday, August 24, 2023

Remember you can save money (and have more fun) by registering as a team of three or more people. Just choose the teams option when selecting your tickets type and you can enrol everybody at the same time!

How many people do we need to include in our research?

One way to approach this is to try and estimate our data saturation point; the number where including more people won’t result in any new insights.

The tricky bit is how do we know what that number is before we see the results?

A method we often use is:
• Define your population (the overall group of people you need information from)
• Estimate divergences in need or behaviour within that population
• Recruit a small number of people from each divergent group

This approach is surprisingly effective at producing a sample that gets you effective coverage with a smaller group of people.

This method and more user/customer research methods are covered in our crash course and design research course in Auckland next month, learn more or sign up here:
https://www.uxgym.com/courses

Over the next few weeks we will be sharing some goodies from our upcoming UX courses in Auckland, starting with a back of the hand method for thinking about if a UX project needs research.

This is an informal method where we estimate or measure the cost of failure and our confidence in the validity of your current knowledge.
We then see if it the result fits into one of these three buckets:
1. If the cost of failure is low then you may be able to work just from assumptions even if you have little evidence of user need
2. If the cost of failure is high but you are confident in your understanding of user needs then you may be able to design from assumptions then test those assumptions post-design. Remember we tend to over estimate how well we understand our users.
3. If the risk of failure is high and we only have unvalidated assumptions about user need then make a case for formative research.

This method and other research methods are covered in our courses in Auckland next month!
Check them out at:
https://uxgym.com/courses

New team tickets are here, making it easier and cheaper to enrol your team in a UX Gym course.

Team tickets offer:
• A bulk Discount: A special group rate that recognises the value of team enrolments.
• Simplified Enrolment: Enrol multiple team members effortlessly with a single ticket purchase.
You don't need to all belong to the same organisation to get team tickets and their associated discounts, the tickets are open to any group of people who can club together and enrol at the same time.

We love team discounts because it encourages people to invite others on this learning journey, and often leads to people outside of traditional design disciplines embracing a human centred approach to thinking about their work.

These tickets are available on all of our current courses, starting with our Auckland courses next month. See the course list below, round up a group of friends or colleagues and get started with your UX learning journey!

These tickets are available for all of our courses here:
https://www.uxgym.com/courses

Also, apparently a 'team' of kittens is called a kindle.

After a long hiatus we're back with a week of courses in Auckland and Wellington! Full info here:
https://www.uxgym.com/courses

Enrolment is now open for:
UX Crash Course
A hands-on introduction to user experience design
Auckland:Monday, August 21, 2023
Wellington:Monday, October 9, 2023

Design Research
Introduction to user/customer research
Auckland:Tuesday, August 22, 2023
Wellington:Tuesday, October 10, 2023

User Interface (UI) Design
Introduction to designing for screens
Auckland:Wednesday, August 23, 2023
Wellington:Wednesday, October 11, 2023

Usability Testing and Prototyping
Introduction to testing designs and creating design prototypes
Auckland:Thursday, August 24, 2023
Wellington:Thursday, October 12, 2023

Enrol of find out more at https://www.uxgym.com/courses

A big thanks to those who came along to the UX for Government morning coffee series! ☕ It was awesome to see so many people give up their own time (and get out of bed so early!) and show such great dedication to delivering better public services and experiences .
🔜 Audio, slides and a transcript will be on the way to you next week.
We are developing other plans to support people working in UX and human centred design in government. Stay tuned for updates as those plans develop.
We look forward to seeing you again soon!

Heads up! Our FREE UX course for people working in government is filling up. We don’t want you to miss out so make sure you grab your spot quickly. 🕑

Register or learn more ➡️ uxgym.webflow.io/govermentuxseries

We're back! And hosting a FREE UX for Government Morning Coffee Series. While we’ve been away we’ve been working hard to create a series designed to support people working in government to create great user experiences.

These one-hour ‘before work’ UX workshops are for people working in public service that want to build their expertise in a human centred approach to user experience design. The sessions are based on our popular UX Gym one-day design courses. Each session covers a different stage of a human centred user experience design process.

☑️ Learn best practice principles and processes
☑️ Experience practical methods you can use immediately
☑️ Access to full course notes and the UX Gym Slack community

This FREE course is for anyone who works for a government organisation. No previous experience is necessary, but people who have experience of UX design are welcome to come along and brush up.

Please share this with anyone that would benefit from it!

Full details here 👉 www.uxgym.com/govermentuxseries

And ... we're unback. Unfortunately we are putting our courses on hold until traffic light levels and highly transmissible diseases settle down a bit! Full details here: https://www.uxgym.com/about