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The State of UX in 2016
Here’s our take on looking at the past, understanding the present, and anticipating what the future holds for UX in 2016.
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2016
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Don’t assume new users want to learn how to use your product
Users don’t leave because they can’t figure it out — they leave because they don’t care to.
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Design Better Forms
Life is short. No one wants to fill out a form. Be conversational. Be funny.
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How Netflix does A/B Testing
Have you ever wondered why Netflix has such a great streaming experience?
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Shit Loops In Design
A series of unwanted actions happening in a user interface that take us down a path that gets darker and darker the further we go.
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The (frustrating) User Experience of defining your own ethnicity
The form I had to fill out to inform my ethnicity was definitely not fair. It just didn’t give me any option I was fully comfortable with, yet it still forced me to pick one of the options to be able to proceed.
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A critical analysis of the iOS 10 lockscreen experience
I found the lockscreen experience confusing and I wanted to learn why
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A/B testing in restaurants
Let’s do a quick experiment and see if there is space to improve the menu and guide the customers into a direction.
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Stop the spammy notifications!
We need to remind companies that we’re more than metrics. We’re real people with busy lives.
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I totally forgot about print style sheets
Optimizing web pages for print is important because we want our sites to be as accessible as possible, no matter the medium.
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The State of UX in 2017
Here’s our take on looking at the past, understanding the present, and anticipating what the future holds for UX.
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The dangers of delightful design
it’s usually safer to be delightful on the screens that a user won’t see too often
2017
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We have failed
Failed to make interfaces that are usable, failed to make software that is intuitive, and failed to make products that normal people can understand.
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Designing for Persuasion, Emotion and Trust
Usability was no longer enough. We had to step forward into the new world of user experience and emotional & persuasive design.
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Designing for Virtual Reality: designers talking about their biggest challenges
MRI and CT scans are all delivered in DICOM format. Free programs can be used to get images and even 3D models from that. Unity can be used to view those in VR. It can be done fairly easily, and the longer you take to make it, the more people suffer or die from what will eventually be outdated 2D screen diagnosis.
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As a Designer I want better Release Notes
By applying a simple structure and some basic formatting, you can dramatically improve the appearance, readability and experience of your release notes using nothing more than the plain text characters at your disposal.
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Design Better Cards
The card is a user interface component that acts as an entry point to more detailed information.
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The benefits of a diverse team
The world is diverse. Companies just cannot afford not being. The future demands it.
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Is diversity a problem in the design industry?
Look around you while you read this: do you honestly think your team is as diverse as it could be, or do you sometimes feel like you work in a bubble?
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Mobile UIs are Turning Upside Down
Our phones are getting bigger, but our hands don’t.
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Designing forms for gender diversity and inclusion
It’s easy for us designers to just slap a gender question that says Male/Female in there — and make it mandatory — because our marketing department needs that data to sell stuff.
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Design avatars that make sense — and be more inclusive in the process
Some common missteps, shows why good avatar design matters, and lays out real-world examples of better avatars in action
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Walking Through Design in Tokyo
By disclosing the station at the scale appropriate for the user, it makes learning about the station more manageable.
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Stop doing user interviews. Start having conversations.
Relax! You’re talking to a human, who is sitting in front of you, being very kind to answer all of your nosey questions.
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UX, growth, and kids these days
In general, drug dealer references making sense in your product is a sign of a problem
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The pitfalls of persuasive design
If users are powerless, designers are not doing their job.
2018
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What can we learn from the design of Chinese delivery apps?
What I think the Chinese apps do well from a UX perspective
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Young people can’t use Facebook, old people can’t use Snapchat — why?
Teens simply have staggeringly low attention-spans. The fast-paced, brightly colored scrolling of Instagram and the red-notification-filled, ephemeral feel of Snapchat fit it perfectly.
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What every product designer should take away from Lyft’s new UI
Lyft doesn’t make you stretch your thumb one bit; the search bar is in the sweet spot.
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Ever wonder why the most popular apps are starting to look the same? It might be a good thing
With interface designs trending towards consolidation, designers can spend less time worrying about what color or how big a button should be and more about why it should be there in the first place.
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Hey, can you ‘do the UX’ for us?
John has 8 UXs in their bag and gives 3 to Joe. How many UXs does John have left?
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My struggle with colors
Utilizing a systematic approach towards color reduces, yet does not eliminate subjectivity.
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Why you should do UX workshops with customer support
I put together a UX workshop and did an open invite to the client support team. This accomplished 2 things: we were able to unearth usability problems we didn’t even know were problems and we built a bridge between departments, facilitating collaboration between support and product.