The UX Booth is a blog by and for the user experience community. Our readership consists mostly of beginning-to-intermediate user experience and interaction designers, but anyone interested in making the web a better place to be is welcome. If you're interested, join us and discuss best practices and trending topics, or share your experiences.
What is this stuff?
User Experience
User Experience (UX) in the online community is the practice of influencing how a person uses and experiences a particular website.
Usability
The ease with which people can employ a particular tool or other human-made object in order to achieve a particular goal.
Interaction Design
Interaction Design (IxD) is the discipline of defining the behavior of products and systems that a user can interact with.
Who We Are
The UX Booth is a collective of authors and contributors. Founded by the members of the UX Panel, we have since grown into a sizable community that writes from a variety of perspectives.
The UX Panel
The UX Booth is managed by its founders: Andrew Maier, Matthew Kammerer, and David Leggett.
Andrew Maier
Andrew Maier architects, designs, and implements web sites for a variety of clients and organizations. He teaches, authors, and speaks on topics pertaining to user experience, usability, and human-computer interaction. He has worked with a number of teams (including Hashrocket) heading user experience initiatives.
Matthew Kammerer
Matthew Kammerer is a student studying Business. He has had a passion for the web since he heard his first dial up connection. He enjoys making things on the web easier to use. Outside of the world of user experience design, Matthew also enjoys sushi, coffee, and reptiles.
David Leggett
David Leggett is a web entrepreneur who specializes in web development and web consulting. He’s been building valuable, top-notch blogs for 5 years, and is constantly looking to help people on the web in new ways.
Guest Authors
First and foremost, the UX Booth celebrates it's guest authors. The best perspective on what makes a usable web is a novel perspective. Listed below are the guest authors that have contributed content to the UX Booth:
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