Bristol Usability Group

A Group. About Usability. In Bristol.

Events

The Bristol Usability Group (BUG) is a friendly network of UX professionals, managers and academics based in the South West of the UK..

Usability news

How technology is altering our brains

Our incessant use of the Internet, Blackberrys, iPods, text-messaging and video games has not only altered our lives, it’s altered our brains.

Get more out of Big Software

We all know that mainstream office applications have more features than we ever use. But are there ways to extend your skill and save some time?

'Augmented reality' fuses the Web and the world around you

'Augmented reality may bring one of the Internet's hokiest promises to a mainstream audience.

Bendable Magnetic Interface

A sensing surface developed by Microsoft researchers offers new ways to use computers.

Chocolate found to combat Stress

Important science news for lots of people, including usability professionals.

Improving Internet Usability

A research study confirms that domain names are a fundamental part of the Internet's user interface, and improving the usability of the Internet depends upon effective domain name policy.

New PC to encourage Older Users

A new computer aimed at people aged over 60 who are unfamiliar with PCs and the internet has been unveiled.

When is Time a useful Metric?

Recording 'time taken' in usability tests is easy and usually informative. But can we make more of it?

New Usability Testing Service launches

A new online usability test service has just launched which lets anyone order usability tests and receive online video results.

Sustainable Usability Testing - good for the pocket and the world

The average usability testing project leaves a footprint of approximately 250 kilograms of CO2, much like a 3 hour flight.
 

Blog Posts

Graham Higgins

Report of Futures night at cxpartners.

Posted by Graham Higgins on November 26, 2009 at 2:30am

Fergus Roche

UX contract work in Dec & Jan at One Big Field

Posted by Fergus Roche on November 24, 2009 at 4:09pm

Conor O'Donovan

IA/UX Manager Position - £72k basic

Posted by Conor O'Donovan on November 17, 2009 at 11:18am

Ben Hayes

Special computer for the elderly with an unreadable name

Posted by Ben Hayes on November 11, 2009 at 9:09am

Members

  • Lewis Milford
  • Chris Heeney
  • Ben Glynn
  • Clara Lemon
  • Graham Higgins
  • Michael Corbett
  • Mark Schiller
  • James Guest
  • James Chapman
  • Gareth Young
  • Fergus Roche
  • Dave Ellender
  • Joe Leech
  • Derek Ahmedzai
  • Andrew McGregor
  • Chris Berrington
  • Edmund Johnson
  • Dan
  • Sam Menter
  • Owen Marsh
  • Praminda Caleb-Solly
  • Nina Powell
  • Odette Collett
  • Ben Simmonds
  • Andy Cole
  • Chris Bevan
  • Pete Ferne

Latest Activity

BUG Xmas drinks at The Watershed
December 9, 2009 from 6pm to 11pm
Come along to the Watershed and help us to hang our user experience baubles on the christmas tree of discussion. All welcome!
yesterday
Graham Higgins added a blog post
A few weeks ago Dave Ellender sent out a call for volunteers to give lightning talks at the November BUG meeting. I took the bait and signed up to talk about the dynamic search UI work that Steve and I did at Labs aeons ago. During the run-up, the...
yesterday
Gareth Young might attend Stuart Church's event
BUG Xmas drinks at The Watershed
December 9, 2009 from 6pm to 11pm
Come along to the Watershed and help us to hang our user experience baubles on the christmas tree of discussion. All welcome!
on Wednesday
Fergus Roche added a blog post
Hi all, I'm need several UX contractors in Dec & Jan at my new venture One Big Field, an experience R&D agency. No agents please. If you know me great, get in touch straightaway. If you don't know me, send me your CV/Linkedin profile etc and lets...
on Tuesday
Dave Ellender updated their profile photo
on Tuesday
Dave Ellender is attending Stuart Church's event
BUG Xmas drinks at The Watershed
December 9, 2009 from 6pm to 11pm
Come along to the Watershed and help us to hang our user experience baubles on the christmas tree of discussion. All welcome!
on Tuesday
Edmund Johnson is now a member of Bristol Usability Group
on Monday
Clara Lemon is attending Stuart Church's event
BUG Xmas drinks at The Watershed
December 9, 2009 from 6pm to 11pm
Come along to the Watershed and help us to hang our user experience baubles on the christmas tree of discussion. All welcome!
on Monday
Andrew McGregor might attend Stuart Church's event
BUG Xmas drinks at The Watershed
December 9, 2009 from 6pm to 11pm
Come along to the Watershed and help us to hang our user experience baubles on the christmas tree of discussion. All welcome!
on Sunday
Andy Cole and Jeremy Praill are now friends
November 20
Odette Collett, Sam Menter, Fergus Roche and 3 other members are attending Stuart Church's event
BUG Xmas drinks at The Watershed
December 9, 2009 from 6pm to 11pm
Come along to the Watershed and help us to hang our user experience baubles on the christmas tree of discussion. All welcome!
November 20
Odette Collett updated their profile
November 20
Odette Collett updated their profile photo
November 20
Joe Leech and Andrew Arch might attend Stuart Church's event
BUG Xmas drinks at The Watershed
December 9, 2009 from 6pm to 11pm
Come along to the Watershed and help us to hang our user experience baubles on the christmas tree of discussion. All welcome!
November 20
Thanks for the invite. I would like to attend. Sorry I could not come to the CXPartners event - got asked to step-in for a colleague at a London conference that was already paid for. Waste not want not! Rgrds Cheryl
November 20
Stuart Church added an event
BUG Xmas drinks at The Watershed
December 9, 2009 from 6pm to 11pm
Come along to the Watershed and help us to hang our user experience baubles on the christmas tree of discussion. All welcome!
November 19
Chris Hughes is now a member of Bristol Usability Group
November 19
Conor O'Donovan added a blog post
A leading online company with a visible and well respected brand is seeking an Information Architecture Manager to join their Irish based team. Managing a team of Usability designers and analysts you will take responsibilities for structural desig...
November 17
Conor O'Donovan is now a member of Bristol Usability Group
November 17
Fergus Roche added a blog post
Hi all, Here's my full transcript of the talk I gave on Futures Night Bug session on Thursday. I've included a bunch of recommended links [for those that asked during and after]. Thanks to Dave and Stuart for organising and inviting me, those oth...
November 15
 
 

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