CATALOGING THE ART AND SCIENCE OF USER EXPERIENCE DESIGN
Title: The Inexplicably Fascinating Japanese Art of Being Useless Context: From the people who gave us Pokemon, karaoke, and Godzilla comes a whole philosophy of uselessness. Synopsis: Designers spend far too much time worrying about utility. How will this be … Continued
Title: Conserve the Sound Context: The more digital we become, the less tactile—and by extension, aural—we sadly remain. Best Bit: I’m partial to the comforting childhood memories triggered by the sound of the View-Master myself. via conservethesound.de
Title: Ugliness Is Underrated: Ugly Design Context: Form only need follow function if you are a design snob. Synopsis: We get so caught up in the overwhelming prejudice favoring “good” design that we often fail to see the equally important … Continued
Title: Techmoan – Featuring the best & worst of new and old technology. Cameras, HiFi, RetroTech. Hunting out interesting and unusual devices to demonstrate. Context: Just because you can make something is absolutely the only reason we apparently need to … Continued
Title: User Experience And Common Sense Context: If UX were easy, everyone would be doing it. *Sees everyone doing it* OK, if UX were easy, everyone would be doing it well. Synopsis: Of course, the primary call to action should … Continued
Title: Net Promoter Score Considered Harmful (and What UX Professionals Can Do About It) Context: There are two types of product designers in this world: those who don’t know what their NPS score is and those who don’t care what … Continued
Title: Everyone is a designer. Get over it. Context: Controversial opinions being expressed on the internet?!?! What is this world coming to? Synopsis: Allow me to begin by nitpicking the very premise of this article, which is—dare I say—poorly designed. … Continued
Title: Makeover Mania: Inside the 21st-Century Craze for Redesigning Everything Context: There is nothing new under the sun. Which is why it all should be redesigned from the ground up. Including the sun. Synopsis: People get used to the familiar. … Continued
Title: The Edges Context: It’s all fun and games until your user experience runs into someone else’s user experience. Synopsis: You spend months crafting your product’s user experience. You consider every detail. Sweat over each pixel. Obsess over all of … Continued
Title: How to Effectively Address the Usability Debt Within Your Product Context: Never put off until tomorrow any usability debt you can clear off your backlog today. Synopsis: There are lies, damn lies, and the promise we make to ourselves … Continued
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: 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: 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: 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