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Search Interaction Optimization: A Human-Centered Design Approach

Search Interaction Optimization: A Human-Centered Design Approach

What if we could simply predict usability automatically from user interactions? By example of search engines, this book explains how it's possible.

2016

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INUIT: an actionable usability questionnaire with only 7 items

How we developed and studied a new questionnaire to make sure it reliably measures usability

14 min readNov 26, 2023

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A young woman of color who is styled like a punk fills in a paper questionnaire.

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Selected Articles & Essays

Roughly Categorized, Ordered Chronologically

3 min readAug 11, 2022

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Selected Articles & Essays

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Poetry

Poems Published in Literary Magazines & Journals

2 min readNov 10, 2022

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A note on “One formula to rule them all: the ROI of a Design System”

Where do the “120” and “240” come from?

2 min readNov 6, 2023

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cost = max((240/X), 6) * X% + min(60-(240/X),54) * Y% | gain = max((120/X), 3) * (Z%/2) + min(60-(240/X), 54) * Z% | ROI = ((gain-cost)/cost) * 100

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Seven heuristics for identifying proper UX instruments and metrics

There are plenty of instruments out there that supposedly measure UX, but not really. So, how can we identify the good ones?

7 min readSep 29, 2023

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A researcher in a thinking pose, surrounded by a range of devices, diagrams, and charts.

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Designing together: the importance of shared principles for design teams

Design principles operationalize a team’s values into concrete guidelines that inform the design process.

6 min readAug 9, 2023

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Designing together: the importance of shared principles for design teams

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A very short history of product management

…and its evolving relationship with product design.

5 min readMay 21, 2023

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A female product manager and female product designer working together. One is holding what seems to be a pen. Both are smiling. An AI-generated image in vaporware style.

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Team values: the foundation of any strategy

They are the guiding principles that shape a team’s culture and determine how its members interact with each other and stakeholders.

7 min readApr 19, 2023

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An abstract, partly dark, partly colorful artwork showing irregular shapes and what may be blots of paint.

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So, how can we measure UX?

It’s less straightforward than one might think.

6 min readOct 2, 2023

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A cyberpunk illustration of a researcher measuring the user experience of a digital product.

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Pillars, objectives, and OGSMs: how to define a design team’s most important topics

In this article of our “Design Team Strategy” series, we explore how to define the most critical topics of a design team’s strategy.

6 min readAug 9, 2023

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An impact/urgency prioritization matrix, with impact on the x- and urgency on the y-axis. Post-its are scattered across the four quadrants of the matrix, some of them marked with fire (“urgency”) and star (“impact”) emojis that act as wild cards. The top-right quadrant is labeled “This first,” the middle quadrants are labeled “Then this,” and the bottom-left quadrant is labeled “Then this.”

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Maximilian Speicher

Maximilian Speicher

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A designer who writes about leadership, strategy, & anything UX • Doctor of Computer Science • formerly University of Michigan • maxspeicher.com/newsletter

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