CRUX

Contemporary Rhetorics and User Experience research and design lab. Exploring and empowering the user eXperience. Founded 2017

CRUX is a suite of research and development projects located within the Department of Rhetoric and Writing. It is a maker-space in every sense of the concept. We make knowledge through cutting edge research into the user experience. We make learning materials for our online and hybrid courses. We collect digital stories from the community and beyond. We make and test interfaces, from the printed i

Participate In a Study About Historical Little Rock

09/19/2022

Would you like to help improve a product in development about historical Little Rock and earn $20 in the process?

My research team and I are conducting research on how to improve the user’s experience with a product in development that deals with photos, maps, and other historical artifacts from the Little Rock area. I invite you to participate in a usability test that asks you to use this new tool on a desktop computer while we observe and take notes on ways the developers may improve the product.

If you're interested in being a participant, click here and let us know your details.

Participate In a Study About Historical Little Rock

08/15/2022

UXPA is going to be in Austin next June.

Conferences & Events UXPA International events provide interactive opportunities for our members and the UX community to learn, have fun, and collaborate. Events are hosted by UXPA International, our amazing chapters a…

06/22/2021

https://twitter.com/AdamMGrant/status/1406978898181636099?s=20

Adam Grant on Twitter “Coding is more about communicating than computing. New data: the best predictor of how quickly people learned to code wasn't math or cognitive ability, but language aptitude. Math skill was almost irrelevant. Coding is mastering a language, not numbers. https://t.co/L3qviUueFx”

07/09/2020

Visualing Little Rock history. We're happy to see this first phase of the project available to the public. CRUX did usability testing for this pilot project and is slated to participate in a much larger expansion if the larger NEH grant comes through.

Mapping Renewal

VCLiftTheRock: Julien Mirivel + Joyce Locke Carter

03/25/2020

Learn about CRUX's research and development mission as it relates to business research opportunities, 37:20 through 41:36

VCLiftTheRock: Julien Mirivel + Joyce Locke Carter VCLiftTheRock: Julien Mirivel + Joyce Locke Carter

03/11/2020

Designing For Accessibility And Inclusion — Smashing Magazine The more inclusive you are to the needs of your users, the more accessible your design is. Let's take a closer look at the different lenses of accessibility through which you can refine your designs.

01/27/2020

Here's a good model of the components of UX research and design that we can use to a) articulate the value proposition of our work and b) break out different types of research questions.

miro.medium.com