CATALOGING THE ART AND SCIENCE OF USER EXPERIENCE DESIGN
Title: Before You Plan Your Product Roadmap Context: Some of your users may use some of your features some of the time but if none of your users are using all of your features any of the time, you’ve got … Continued
Title: The state of UX in 2015 / 2016 Context: UX Design: What happened in 2015 and what will happen in 2016. Just in case you weren’t paying attention and aren’t omniscient. Synopsis: Ah, the holiday season. Winding up the … Continued
Title: 10 Things I Learned About UX By Being Drunk Context: If you think your product might be hard to use when sober, imagine trying to do it while drunk. Synopsis: User experience design can be a sobering activity. Trying … Continued
Title: Why You Don’t Give Feedback Context: Want to hear what your users think about your product? Good luck with that. Synopsis: The squeaky wheel gets the grease. This old chestnut regarding the palliative effects of voicing one’s opinion about … Continued
Title: The UX of UP: Urinals and Usability Context: All UX designers must wash their hands before returning to work. Synopsis: UX can be found all around us. Yes even…in there. Our natural bodily functions — as gender-specifically universal as … Continued
Title: What user researchers can learn from Sherlock Holmes Context: The world’s greatest detective can teach us a thing or two about understanding end users. Synopsis: The bane of criminal masterminds and nefarious schemers throughout the whole of Victorian England … Continued
Title: Value of UX Design Context: Less Powerpoint! More product customization! Synopsis: If you have a job where you have to use tools designed specifically for business purposes, odds are that you want to stab yourself in the face whenever … Continued
Title: 4 Design Lessons From The Pixar Team Context: Pixar doesn’t just “make” movies, they design them. And like all design, they have a process. Synopsis: Creative genius is messy. You could not possibly recreate the superlative talents of a … Continued
Title: Your UI isn’t a Disney Movie Context: Just because something can move, doesn’t mean it should. Synopsis: In much the same way a starving man can eat himself to death when finally presented with unlimited food after a prolonged … Continued
Title: The Obvious, the Easy, and the Possible Context: It’s not a question of minimizing complexity, it’s rather about optimizing obviousity [sic]. Synopsis: They never said it would be easy. In this case, “they” are most likely “us” (if “us” … Continued
Title: If engineers were treated like designers. Context: The subjectivity of the majority of design criticism when applied to other disciplines is sadly laughable. via twitter.com
Title: 100 Days of Good UX Context: It’s the little things in life that make it worth living: sunsets, puppies, sick transitional mobile app animations. Get some. Best Bit: Check out “Day 42: VDOT Billboards”. Brilliant. via 100daysofgoodux.tumblr.com
Title: Designing For All Five Senses Context: You don’t simply experience a user experience, you see, hear, feel, touch, and taste a user experience. Synopsis: A complete picture of a product’s experience does not exist in the mere moment one … Continued
Title: The Psychology of Numbers in Design Context: Numbers, numbers everywhere, nor any data to drive behavior. Synopsis: Numbers are funny. Not “ha, ha” funny, but rather “huh, that’s strange” funny. Odd if you will. Even the even ones. Numbers … Continued
Title: Stop Thinking About User Interface: A Product Approach for Designing Products of the Future Context: Before assuming that a GUI is the answer you might want to first reconsider the question. Synopsis: When you are a software designer, every … Continued