Articles by Bill Albert, PhD
Dr. Albert is Founder and Principal of Greenlight Idea Lab, the only global agency exclusively focused on concept and product validation. Prior to Greenlight Idea Lab, Bill was Senior Vice President and Global Head of Customer Experience at Mach49, a growth incubator for global businesses, and Executive Director of the User Experience Center and Adjunct Professor in Human Factors in Information Design at Bentley University. He has more than 20 peer-reviewed publications and has presented his work in user experience at more than 50 national and international conferences. He co-wrote (with Tom Tullis) the first book on UX metrics, Measuring the User Experience: Collecting, Analyzing, and Presenting UX Metrics (third edition published in 2022), spawning the quantitative movement in UX. He received his PhD from Boston University. He completed a post-doc at Nissan Cambridge Basic Research with a focus on cognitive demands in the use of navigation systems.
[:en]Introduction to Volume 17, Issue 3[:]
[:en] Our May 2022 essay is “Welcome to the Journal of User Experience,” by Bill Albert and Jim Lewis. They announce our journal’s new name, Journal of User Experience (JUX), and provide some background and thoughts about the change. In addition, this issue includes two research papers. One is about the relationship between users’ perception […] Read More about [:en]Introduction to Volume 17, Issue 3[:]
[:en]Welcome to the Journal of User Experience[:]
[:en] In November 2005 the first issue of the Journal of Usability Studies was published. At that time, the name of our association was the Usability Professionals Association (UPA). As the scope of interest of UPA’s members expanded beyond usability, the association changed its name in June 2012 to the User Experience Professionals Association (UXPA) […] Read More about [:en]Welcome to the Journal of User Experience[:]
[:en]Introduction to Volume 17, Issue 2[:]
[:en] For the February 2022 issue, the invited essay is “UX Standards and UX Maturity” by Brian Traynor. He reviews the work of many standards committees, working groups, and documents that are relevant to UX researchers and practitioners. In addition to the essay, this issue includes two methodological research papers—one on personas and the other […] Read More about [:en]Introduction to Volume 17, Issue 2[:]
[:en]Introduction to Volume 17, Issue 1[:]
[:en] For the November 2021 issue, the invited essay is “Dual Cognitive UXD and Explainable AI” by Karen Cham, Raida Shakiry, and Carl Yates. They describe research in eCommerce and games UX that provides a foundation for dual cognitive, or deep UXD, to understand relationships between biometrics, persuasion, and ethical UX design to support the […] Read More about [:en]Introduction to Volume 17, Issue 1[:]
[:en]Introduction to Volume 16, Issue 4[:]
[:en] We are sharing an essay by Bill Albert and Jim Lewis titled “The JUS Top 10 Articles: 2005—2021.” The authors provide a summary of the most viewed articles since the inception of the Journal in 2005. An abstract and brief commentary is provided for each article. The first article titled “Labeling and Placement of […] Read More about [:en]Introduction to Volume 16, Issue 4[:]
[:en]The JUS Top 10 Articles: 2005–2021[:]
[:en] The first issue of the Journal of Usability Studies was published in November 2005 with Avi Parush as the Editor in Chief and an essay by Jakob Nielsen. That means that with the current issue, August 2021, JUS has completed its 16th volume of essays and peer-reviewed articles by and for usability and UX […] Read More about [:en]The JUS Top 10 Articles: 2005–2021[:]
[:en]Introduction to Volume 16, Issue 3[:de]Introduction to Volume 16, Issue 3[:]
[:en] Our May 2021, invited essay is “The Best of Times for UX Research, the Worst of Times for Usability Research?” by Jason Buhle. He describes how the landscape of usability and UX research has been changing and provides recommendations for increasing the academic and professional standing of usability research. In addition to the essay, […] Read More about [:en]Introduction to Volume 16, Issue 3[:de]Introduction to Volume 16, Issue 3[:]