CATALOGING THE ART AND SCIENCE OF USER EXPERIENCE DESIGN
Title: How to prioritise usability problems Context: Problematic problems can be problematic to solve. Probably. Synopsis: Good luck trying to make something without any usability issues. It’s probably not even possible. So we shouldn’t be so concerned with the existence … Continued
Title: Demographics Won’t Make a Great Milkshake Context: Don’t make a product people want to buy, make a product people want to hire. Synopsis: Understanding what customers want is difficult work. First off, there’s a lot of them and they … Continued
Title: Winning a User Experience Debate Context: Designers are from Mars and everyone else is from Venus. But the part of Venus that constantly disagrees with people from Mars. Synopsis: I know this almost never happens, but what should we … Continued
Title: “90% of your users are idiots” Context: It’s not really that 90% of your users are idiots, it’s that’s just how they prefer to be treated. Synopsis: We make decisions all the time based on how we think our … Continued
Title: How to Create Compelling Brand Experiences Context: Features? So what. Experiences? Yes please. Synopsis: Many companies, agencies and consultants spend hour upon hour with customers asking them what new features they want to see in the products they use. … Continued
Title: The Psychologist’s View of UX Design Context: A head shrink tells you what’s going on in the heads of people using the devices we are trying to shrink. Synopsis: User experience designers and psychologists share a fascination with the … Continued
Title: I don’t care about User Experience Context: Things I don’t miss: Being met with blank stares while answering the question “So what exactly is it that you guys do?” Synopsis: We are no longer strange, mystical beings that people … Continued
Title: Designing from the Inside-Out: Behaviour as the Engine of Product Design Context: What does your product look like? Just kidding, no one cares. How your product works is what matters. Synopsis: Nice presentation that asks designers to forget about … Continued
Title: Are your users S.T.U.P.I.D? How good design can make users effective Context: The quickest way to make users hate your product is to make them feel dumb when they use it. Synopsis: The quality of the acronyms in this … Continued
Title: Why User Experience Cannot Be Designed Context: We can take lots of things into account when designing UX, except the most important part: the user. Synopsis: Sure we talk about “user centered design”, but what does that really mean? … Continued
Title: UX is 90% Desirability Context: The word every UX designer wants to hear from their customers? “WANT!” Synopsis: Want and need are technically 2 different things. Traditionally things that you “want” are objects that you desire because you believe … Continued
Title: Passive magic, design of delightful experience Context: Filling your end users with delight is rarely easy, but always rewarded. Synopsis: This is basically just a collection of really cool (read: delightful) user experiences. From hardware to software, and all … Continued
Title: Product Testing Institute – Models Context: Yup. These are your users. Synopsis: Sometimes it is hard to account for the wide range of user abilities for which we have to account. This disparity in techni…technolo…tenchol…tech-savvitudeness makes our jobs even … Continued
Title: The Dark Side Of Usability Context: Obi Wan was right; the Dark Side is an easy trap to fall into. Be strong young UX Jedis. Synopsis: Socrates thought that writing would rob people of their ability to remember things. … Continued
Title: Designing Great Experiences: The Gap Between Activities Context: One of my favorite design quotes from the Tao Teh Ching is: “Clay is molded into a vessel, but the usefulness of the vessel depends on the space where nothing exists.” … Continued