User Experience Reform

Independent public-interest project · Scientific framework under active development · Live public pilot

UXR Documentation

UXR for Researchers and Writers

An on-ramp for researchers, students, educators, authors, and others studying human agency, dignity, time, burden, systems, and institutional behavior.

UXR welcomes researchers, students, educators, authors, and independent thinkers who study human agency, dignity, administrative burden, institutional behavior, accessibility, service systems, attention, public policy, technology, healthcare, labor, design, or the value of human time.

UXR examines human-made systems of every kind, not only software or machine interfaces.

UXR as a Developing Scientific Framework

UXR applies scientific discipline to human-system interactions by separating observation, explanation, and evaluation.

It aims to measure supportable costs and outcomes, test causal explanations, preserve uncertainty, expose inference trails, and distinguish factual confidence from moral judgment.

Its measurements, baselines, weights, and Blue Score methods are not yet validated operationally. Researchers should treat the current documents as a developing research program and public methodological foundation, not as a completed scientific instrument.

What UXR Offers

  • a public vocabulary for naming human costs and system behavior;
  • a universal scope connecting domains often studied separately;
  • development notes on evidence, confidence, severity, urgency, recoverability, participation integrity, and intake;
  • a developing responsibility and asymmetry model;
  • and interpretive stress testing for discovering how different mindsets understand or misread the framework.

Research Areas UXR Wants Help With

  • measuring time, cognitive load, repeated work, dignity, agency, and lost opportunity;
  • distinguishing necessary friction from avoidable burden;
  • testing whether responsibility can be allocated proportionally to institutional capability;
  • measuring asymmetry reduction without pretending to create equal footing;
  • detecting human externalities in monetary and non-monetary systems;
  • preventing metric gaming and political, corporate, or methodological capture;
  • and testing whether proposed scores predict outcomes people actually value.

Scientific framework · Interpretive stress testing · Complete reviewer packet