Usability Evaluation Trends in Ibero-American Countries

Usability evaluation is a major area of humancomputer interaction (HCI) in both academia and industry. According to Nielsen, on the Web, usability is a necessary condition for survival. If a website is difficult to use, people leave. If a homepage fails to clearly state what a company offers and what users can do on the site, people leave. If users get lost on a website, they leave. If a website’s information is hard to read or doesn’t answer users’ key questions, they leave. We conducted a survey in diverse Ibero-American countries of both academic institutions and software development companies to determine how usability evaluation is performed, taking into account methods, techniques, software tools, and usability laboratories

Analysis on formal and informal qualifications in Iberoamerica: challenges for online learning

. La formación del profesional UX constituye un desafío al ser altamente interdisciplinar. En este artículo se analizan las principales iniciativas formales, informales y profesionales del profesional UX en Iberoamérica. Además, se presenta una serie de tópicos, contenidos y competencias que deben ser considerados en el diseño de la formación UX así como los retos actuales de la formación en un espacio global online interdisciplinar e internacional. The training of the UX professional is a challenge as it is highly interdisciplinary. This article analyses the main formal, informal and professional initiatives of the UX professional in Iberoamerica. In addition, a series of topics, contents and competencies that must be considered in the design of UX training are presented, as well as the current challenges of training in a global, interdisciplinary and international online spac