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634 days ago
design rant user experience
UX is not a skill, it’s part of design.
User Experience, or ‘UX’ as it’s commonly shortened to, is how a person uses and experiences an interface. This is just part of design. Whether it’s designing a website, application or a physical product, the user experience should be the sole motivator for direction and decisions.
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711 days ago
user experience ux design
Don’t simplify the UX, curate!
To accomplish simplification, user experience designers employ a variety of design exercises to make the UI more efficient. We limit the amount of choices available to a user, reduce the size of content and site copy, progressively disclose UI options, and synthesize unruly navigation elements.
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751 days ago
user behavior user experience
How Cognitive Biases Shape User Experience
Users tend to have a preconceived understanding about where certain page elements are likely to be located. For example, many users will look for a sign-in button in the upper right corner of page.
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760 days ago
design user experience
Got a Big Problem? Focus on Something Small
Sketching is great, but at the end of the day we’ve found it’s better to get something done. That means focusing on something small
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773 days ago
usability user experience user interface
Less is not always More
..I have been noticing a very frightening tread. In an effort to make things more usable, we are designing interfaces without the very functions used to support usability in the first place…
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774 days ago
design user experience video games
The Elements of Player Experience
Video games are breaking out of the roles they’ve traditionally occupied and are moving into spaces where they collide with UX design.
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780 days ago
brand design user experience
The visual interface is now your brand
…While designing visual interfaces for dense, complex products, designers can also influence brand perception by creating experiences that are both memorable and useful…
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780 days ago
design user experience
The fall and rise of user experience
…Public understanding of design is also growing. Customers see and use the same desirable products, and can now use the power of their networks to learn about a product’s true quality before they part with their cash. This means the public increasingly appreciates the value of usability and user experience, although they would never use those terms…
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789 days ago
design startups user experience
The Value of Design to Startups
Design and marketing are way more important than engineering for consumer Internet companies, argues angel investor Dave McClure
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789 days ago
design personas user experience
Personas: The Foundation of a Great User Experience
…as the marketplace shifts from a mass manufacturing to a mass customization model, customers needs and desires are more accurately identified through the development of personas rather than through demographic data.
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799 days ago
design startups user experience
More, better, faster: UX design for startups
Startups don’t have capital to burn or luxurious schedules for big-design-up-front. But unless your idea is by-and-for-engineers, design isn’t something you want to skip on your way to market.
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801 days ago
generalist specialist user experience
Should you hire a UX specialist or a UX generalist?
As a UX Manager, adding a new person to your team is one of the most difficult and critical things you’ll ever do. Adding the right person will dramatically increase the quantity and quality of the work your team produces. However, adding the wrong person can create morale issues and even decrease your effective throughput.
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802 days ago
design user experience
Why User Experience Cannot Be Designed
A lot of designers seem to be talking about user experience (UX) these days. We’re supposed to delight our users, even provide them with magic, so that they love our websites, apps and start-ups. User experience is a very blurry concept.
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802 days ago
design user experience
Let’s Get Physical. UX Beyond the Screen
One thing I love about UX designers is our diversity of backgrounds. We tend to be refugees from other disciplines…
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806 days ago
design desirability user experience
UX is 90% Desirability
It is hard to say what truly makes something desirable because the answer is: It depends.
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806 days ago
children design user experience
Approaches to User Research When Designing for Children
Similar to any other design project that follows a user-centered approach, UX design projects for children also require a thorough knowledge of your audience.
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808 days ago
agile design user experience
Agile User Interface Design and Information Architecture From the Trenches
…To date, I would say that of all the disciplines in creating software and especially web sites, UX people are the slowest and most resistant to adopting Agile principles and practices.
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810 days ago
design user experience ux design
Lean UX: Getting Out Of The Deliverables Business
User experience design for the Web (and its siblings, interaction design, UI design, et al) has traditionally been a deliverables-based practice. Wireframes, site maps, flow diagrams, content inventories, taxonomies, mockups and the ever-sacred specifications document (aka “The Spec”) helped define the practice in its infancy.
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810 days ago
sketching user experience wireframe
Why Wireframe?
Recently, we found ourselves explaining why we wireframe, and what it brings to the project: clarity of purpose, a streamlined set of features, and a focused, compelling way to communicate with users.
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810 days ago
design education user experience
The UX Design Education Scam
If you emerge from university today with a web design degree, chances are rather slim that you’re employable as a user experience (UX) or web designer. Maybe you learned a lot of stuff; it’s just probably the wrong stuff. Congratulations, you’ve been defrauded. Hope it didn’t cost you or your parents too much.
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815 days ago
design speed user experience
Lean UX: The UX you wish you were doing
Deliverables help us build commodities and describe solutions and actually, they can be pretty handy to work backwards from when we’re selling into a client.
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816 days ago
conversion design user experience
Anatomy of an Effective Product Page Design
The goal of any new e-commerce website appears to be to challenge (and be better than) Amazon.com. The well informed among us would say this is an impossible task and anyone suggesting different is overly ambitious or crazy.
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817 days ago
sketching user experience wireframes
The Great Wireframe Debate
…One of the most common points was that wireframes are a valuable part of an agency’s design process and help kick off the project, get it approved by the director, get client sign off…
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820 days ago
design user experience user interface
UI Innovation: It’s Not Just About Features
Technology is a catalyst for new possibilities, but as digital designers we must evaluate how those new possibilities can add value to a user’s experience, not detract from it.
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822 days ago
design sketching user experience
Sketching to Break the Ice
Great product is never the product of a lone genius, but rather the collective wisdom of a motivated team with a shared vision. Sketching is the best way to codify that vision and strengthen your team.
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824 days ago
design usability user experience
UX: Even the best can get it wrong
The key areas, or “pillars”, of User Experience are: User Interface, Interaction Design and Usability. These three areas work together to create a good or bad User Experience.
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829 days ago
design user experience
User-Led Innovation Can’t Create Breakthroughs; Just Ask Apple and Ikea
The user is king. It’s a phrase that’s repeated over and over again as a mantra: Companies must become user-centric.
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830 days ago
design usability user experience
Tips for Website Usability
Website usability is a popular concept among web designers. It is based on understanding, interaction with users and how to attract them to your website or brand in order to gain both search engine ranking and grow your business.
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830 days ago
usability user experience
Usability and the user experience
What’s the difference between usability and user experience? For me, user experience is the experience someone has when using a design. Usability is the extent to which the design provides a good user experience. Usability is often misunderstood to mean ‘ease of use’. It’s much more than this though.
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835 days ago
usability user experience user interface
Traffic and websites
In this post I’m going to talk about road signs, traffic and their similarities with the user experience of websites.