But not spending time on user research and analysis is a critical mistake .
User research is the intangible marketing spend that is seemingly unnecessary to the end deliverable.
The new product's centerpiece is TV Guide's Watchlist, its groundbreaking platform featuring dozens of innovations based on user research and feedback.
Janice describes 3 kinds of user research: generative, evolutionary, and quantitative.
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We do this by incorporating lessons and assignments in agile development, iterating user interface by using emerging lean user experience methods and well grounded user research methods like contextual design.
The bid says the project will consist of "drivers and perception qualitative research", "London.gov panel omnibus research", "London.gov user experience research" and an "advertising diagnostics review".
This is a strong endorsement of user-inspired research and cutting-edge speech and language technology in I2R and BIRC.
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James Neal, who as head of Columbia University's libraries in New York is a big customer, gives Reed Elsevier top marks for creating user-friendly research products, but he also has a six-point gripe list with the company that includes price-gouging and concerns that scientific journals are increasingly being consolidated under one corporate banner.
Facebook staffer Jane Justice Leibrock did the research on user attitudes to the existing Facebook news feed.
The form of leadership that holds most potential is a twist on the pattern described by Eric Von Hippel in his research on User-driven Innovation.
Our conference themes will provide the opportunity to consider challenges the research and end user communities face when dealing with climate change.
The result comes at a time when the world's largest user of chimps in medical research is considering retiring more than 300 of its animals.
According to iResearch, a Beijing-based research firm, the user satisfaction level was 77 percent for Taobao versus 62 percent for eBay EachNet.
Jared Spool, the CEO of User Interface Engineering, a usability research firm, agrees that Toshiba is thinking about tablet design in a way that its rivals aren't.
It also accelerates the advancement of user-developed tools and technologies to empower the research community and help orchestrate their studies.
"Quad-core processors offer much faster performance for graphics-intensive activities such as high-definition video playback and high-end gaming as well as enabling the phone to handle multitasking with less effect on the user experience, " said Daniel Gleeson, a research analyst for IHS Screen Digest.
Social media is used in marketing, market research, communications, support, product development, user testing, talent recruiting and a good deal more.
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Xerox, at its Palo Alto Research Center (PARC), invented the graphical user interface, ethernet communications and the language of digital printing.
TripAdvisor Media Network (tripadvisor.com) gathers and publishes user-generated content such as hotel reviews that travelers use for research prior to making bookings, and generates revenue from advertising.
In fact, the 50, 000 or so users in MoveOn's protest group make up around 0.1% of the site's user base, points out Jeremiah Owyang, an analyst with Forrest Research.
His other research interests focus on using AI inspired techniques to solve real-world user-centric problems.
The research, entitled Steroid and Prescription Medicine - Abuses in the Recreational Gym user - a regional study, questioned 210 people at 100 heaving lifting gyms in the former Mid Glamorgan county area in 2005.
According to their research, the vulnerabilities are exploitable by downloading and decrypting the file containing the user credentials from the server.
The study, conducted by research firm InsightsNow, combines qualitative, quantitative and ethnographic methods, and tracked user behavior and clickstreams in the US, across mobile web, apps, and other mobile services.
At the fabled Xerox Palo Alto Research Center scientists sat on beanbag chairs and dreamed up inventions like the graphical user interface for small computers and the PostScript language for printers, as well as ways to link computers within an office.
The app pairs an inspiration tool with a dashboard of insights to help a user better understand what type of content his audience prefers, enabling him to do the research needed to create a shareable video, which ups its chances of becoming a viral hit.
TripAdvisor gathers and publishes user-generated content such as hotels, restaurants and travel destination reviews that travelers use for research prior to making bookings.
Real-time peer advice and research that might previously have taken hours to rustle up now take only seconds to locate on user-friendly PDxMD.
Infonetics Research analyst Kevin Mitchell says it's hard to say what Skype's true active-user base is, and whether the company will ever make any real money.
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