All Sandlab projects

List of projects and studies

Dark mode: why is consensus so hard to reach?

Negative polarity, eye strain, performance, perception, eco-design: everything recent scientific literature teaches us (and where it contradicts us)…

To make an image lighter, should you lower the resolution or push the compression?

On 10 RAW photos, 4 formats and 6 resolutions, we measured perceived quality. JPEG XL gives the best trade-off. At acceptable or high quality,…

Synthetic panels or silicon users: what if we no longer needed to interview real customers?

The AI tsunami is coming, and the whole digital industry is changing radically. AI replacing designers, researchers and project managers. And of…

Measuring workload in UX research: lessons from the NASA-TLX

Lessons learned with the NASA-TLX, a simple, fast and proven questionnaire for characterising the workload associated with a product, an interface or…