CATALOGING THE ART AND SCIENCE OF USER EXPERIENCE DESIGN
Title: UX Leadership, Part 1: The Nature of Great Leaders & UX Leadership, Part 2: What Great Leaders Must Do Context: Leadership is not just for people leaders. Leaders change the status quo. The smart ones follow these people of … Continued
Title: Let Your Users Wait Context: We all have to wait sometimes, however it’s not the time you wait, but rather how you perceive the wait time that matters. Synopsis: Anticipation can be delicious. Suspense makes us tingle with excitement. … Continued
Title: 25 Ideas Shaping The Future Of Design Context: The future of design as imagined by today’s leaders of design. Not you guys…those other leaders of design. Synopsis: What does the future hold in store for the professional practice of … Continued
Title: The Science of Happy Design Context: Rather than efficient, connected, and smarter what if we instead designed technology to make us happy? Synopsis: If you wrote down all of the values that we aspire to when working towards a … Continued
Title: The Reinvention Of Normal Context: We tend to, as a species, equate normal with good for some unfathomable reason. Synopsis: We are all in need of inspiration on pretty much a rolling basis, but it’s what you do with … Continued
Title: Calculated Misery: The Dark Side of UX Strategy Context: What’s worse; an unintentionally bad user experience or one designed poorly on purpose? Synopsis: One of the unassailable tenets of modern business is that failing to supply customers with a … Continued
Title: One Magic Formula to Calculate User Experience? Context: The holy grail of UX: quantifying a user’s experience. The bane of UX: math. Synopsis: It is impossible to quantify every aspect, input, factor, and interaction vector that go into designing … Continued
Title: Accessibility Wins Context: Everyone is supposed to design with accessibility in mind. Here are the few and far between that actually do so. Best Bit: “Sadly, with accessibility so much of the conversation is about what was done wrong.” … Continued
Title: NO DICKHEADS! A Guide To Building Happy, Healthy, and Creative Teams. Context: It’s easy to call yourselves a team. However, actually being a team takes a lot of hard work. Synopsis: Tolstoy famously said that “All happy families are … Continued
Title: UX Reactions Context: Why come up with your own reactions to ridiculous UX situations when GIF makers have already done all the hard work for you? via uxreactions.com
Title: 5 Rules For Writing Great Interface Copy Context: You wouldn’t use clip art in a final design comp so stop using “lorem ipsum” before I…ummm…sorry, the words escape me… Synopsis: Words matter. We spend obscene amounts of time honing … Continued
Title: Design In Tech Report 2015 Context: Design no longer contributes to business success, it drives it. Synopsis: Let’s be frank: it’s a helluva good time to be a designer in tech. It’s not always easy, but it certainly is … Continued
“How IT people see users, using their app for the first time.” via thehipperelement.com
Title: The hardest thing in UX design… Context: It gets easier. Or so I’ve been told. Synopsis: There are many difficult aspects to being a user experience designer: long hours, constant rework, uncertainty, but nothing is so hard, or dispiriting, … Continued
Title: Why We Should Design Some Things to Be Difficult to Use Context: Easier is not always better. Damn you Easy Button™! *shakes fist* Synopsis: People seem to prefer getting better at things to being good at things. Making noticeable … Continued