Boxes And Arrows : The Design Behind the Design

Alexander Muir

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Alexander here. I'm a user researcher, currently working on site like MSN Health, Autos and Lifestyles. I also teach usability testing at the University of Washington.

I specialize in understanding what makes our target audience tick - creatively using qual and quant methods to get a really rich picture of how people are doing with our sites.

My PhD is in psychology - looking at Buddhist principles of perception and how they can be applied to psychotherapy.

I did my MSc thesis on usability for online music learning, under the supervision of the brilliant Dr Catriona Macauley at Napier University, Scotland.

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