#uxdesign
I just re-read it and I believe it still is valid and works well, though I may have chosen different illustrative examples had I written it today.
Honestly I think I will try and get back to using this model more in everyday work. As I wrote in the book, it works great as a thinking tool for everything from a big web project down to writing a blog post.
https://axbom.com/aceawe/
#UXDesign
#Design #Checklists
Testing sites and apps with blind users · Live sessions can give you lots of priceless insights https://ilo.im/13ftkm
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#UsabilityTest #AccessibilityTest #UserRecruiting #Tools #Tasks #ProductDesign #UxDesign #UiDesign #WebDesign #Usability #Accessibility #A11y #ScreenReader
#HaloCollar #dogs
Change Mode UI doesn’t state current status. This adds cognitive load on the user to have to read what the status is and there is no confirmation if the fence or beacon is active or not.
Solution:
When opening Change Mode have current state active. If fence is active, keep button color blue. This allows the user to quickly see what is active and what is not.
#ux #uxdesign #ui #uidesign #visualdesign #userexperiencedesign #userexperience
#apple
Feature Request:
Breakout My Sports into its own app.
#ux #uxdesign #ui #uidesign #visualdesign #userexperiencedesign #userexperience
🗒️ Day 5 of the design sprint is all about testing and feedback!
Put your product concept to the test with unbiased participants and thoughtfully curated questions. Nathalie Baudrand outlines how to conduct this portion of your sprint with mastery—all on our new blog: https://www.ombulabs.com/blog/design-sprint-day-5.html?utm_source=Mastodon&utm_medium=Organic&utm_campaign=Blogpromo&utm_term=designsprintday5&utm_content=Gif&utm_id=
Working on wireframes and being a perfectionist, I need everything to animate correctly at this stage 😅
Unsolicited design advice 3:
Auto saving is a good theory and can work in some capacities however anything that requires a user to review and confirm should not be automatically applied as though they hit submit.
Save the data in case an accident occurs but do not submit that information on their behalf. Good friction is reducing errors and mistakes not guessing user’s intentions.
#Design #Guidances
Skeleton Screens 101 · Are skeleton screens better than progress bars or spinners? https://ilo.im/13dkxk
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#PageLoading #Placeholder #SkeletonScreen #UxDesign #UiDesign #WebDesign #DesignPattern #WebPage #WebPerformance #ProgressIndicator #ProgressBar #Spinner #Animation
Real #agile development is only possible when teams practice decision provenance: maintaining a trail of *why* they decided what to do, so that those decisions can be reviewed when experiments reveal new information.
Got some fun #UXDesign books for the month.
The Laws of UX flash cards are particularly exciting.
Unless you have new information coming in, revisions provide diminishing returns.
Testing something imperfect and low-fidelity five times will yield far better results than refining one "deliverable" artifact ten times.
This week’s episode of #SystemsOfHarm podcast is now live 📣
In this episode I’m chatting to Fred Warburton, Design Systems Manager at Springer Nature, and former #A11y lead at Babylon about design systems and accessibility.
Apple: https://apple.co/3NfoAvE
Spotify: https://spoti.fi/42ulmbY
Fred and I first met on the Babylon Health design system team back in 2020...
In 2020, Fred was diagnosed with retinitis pigmentosa, an eye condition causing sight loss. Following this, Fred led a Herculean effort to improve the #a11y of Babylon’s products.
Fred is one of the most impressive accessibility advocates I’ve had the pleasure of working with.
In this episode, we discuss the importance of benchmarking a team’s awareness and skill around accessibility over auditing, and culture change over compliance.
Go listen
[🌀Design systémique – Publication de la matrice d’analyse des externalités📢]
👀 Nous publions aujourd’hui la méthodologie détaillée, les supports d'utilisation et un retour d'expérience de son application.
❓C'est un outil de co-création que vous pouvez utiliser en phases de cadrage, d’idéation et de rétrospective pour identifier des potentiels risques et opportunités d'amélioration de votre produit.
On vous dit tout ici 👉 https://beta.designersethiques.org/thematique-design-systemique/matrice-analyse-externalites
It can feel overwhelming to be the only designer at a company.
So many different needs, thousands of ideas around and tasks you should work at the same time.
What helped me?
Being the only designer you should:
‣ Calm down
‣ Make a rough plan
‣ Prioritize tasks
‣ Most important: start.
You can and will always have to adjust your plans and tasks. 🙂
If you're writing stuff on Medium, note that you can select a bunch of text and press the backtick ` key to turn selected text to inline code.
This option is not available in the GUI pop-up for formatting text (WTF!).
If you're on a keyboard that can write backtick but doesn't have a backtick key (Czech keyboard), then you need to switch to one that supports it (English, obviously).
Why they didn't allow for the Markdown approach where you enclose the text in backticks (as in Notion, Slack, Teams, etc...) is beyond me.
I only found about it because I was copying text from Notion and the formatting was preserved.
This is frankly a bad UX that could be easily fixed by adding a single button to existing GUI element for text formatting.
I think Apple’s concept of interfaces that use natural movement and enhance the space around you is absolutely where UX/UI should head. But it feels like the approach of this coming from a device covering your face is inherently isolating and why everyone is getting such creepy vibes from it.
Could we instead go about this in a completely opposite way: how can hardware in the space around us augment that space? Basically a speakers instead of headphones approach.
#uxui #productdesign #uxdesign #WWDC #WWDC2023 #AppleVisionPro
A rather common pitfall of #UXDesign that I notice often is that Aesthetic Usability Effect becomes a form of cognitive bias during the design process.
Sometimes designers equate things that look easy to use with something that is actually easy to use, which is not always the case.
Case in point - you can design a phone with just one button. It looks simple, right? Not really. Look up "Cinco Pone" to see what I'm talking about. 😂
A necessary amount of complexity is required to make it easy.
Accessible Numbers—a nice resource for "presenting numbers and data clearly". https://accessiblenumbers.com/ #a11y #numbers #UIDesign #UXDesign
How you make progress when learning UX:
➢ Learn the basics of UX and UI
➢ Find a project, e.g. an app you want to develop (or improve)
➢ Learn about different concepts, processes, patterns, and methodologies as you gain your own experience and actively apply your knowledge
➢ Exchange with other designers, ask how they do their work, solve problems and get stuff done
LukeW gives a good example of when poor UX has a negative impact on the most important value of business: money. https://www.lukew.com/ff/entry.asp?2023 #ux #uxdesign
#Design #Techniques
How to adapt long-page designs for better scanning · A way to consolidate information-dense content and engage visitors https://ilo.im/13d633
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#Communication #Engagement #Content #LongFormContent #InformationDensity #Scanning #IA #ProductDesign #UxDesign #UiDesign #WebDesign #Website #Blog #WebPage
Immersive history: The Hallwyl House in Stockholm combines a variety of 17th and 18th century interior design styles with 19th century architecture.
I combined a photographer's 3D captures of the museum with #pcgaming controls to create a virtual tour.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L0HBJKX51FU
#webdev #javascript #stockholm #history #architecture #ui #ux #uxdesign #webdesign #photography #realestate
Week 4 of Stray - Up Up and Away in the Outside! Join me and the #MagicMafia for gaming (and puppetry) with #GameDev and #UXDesign chat. Probably a fair bit of AI discussion. #Twitch https://twitch.tv/funnygodmother
In the latest episode of my podcast, I'm joined by Are Halland to discuss his core model, a tool for aligning business goals and user needs. Check it out!
https://theinformed.life/2023/06/04/episode-115-are-halland/
“A good leader is a good listener, especially when it comes to design.” — Jared M. Spool
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#Design #Leader #Listening #Design #UxDesign #IxDesign #UiDesign #WebDesign #Quote
As a designer/an engineer your most important concern is not what feature to implement next - it's about how a new feature interacts with all other existing features in the system.
#UX #ProductDesign #UserExperience #UXDesign #Design #Engineering
Do you love doing design work, but dread the inevitable design reviews that follow? Did you know that "Presenting Design Work" by Donna Spencer and published by A Book Apart offers a blueprint for a winning design presentation? Check it out, and support an Australian author and amazing indie publisher at the same time! https://abookapart.com/products/presenting-design-work #design #presentations #uxdesign #designagency #designconsultant #designprofessionals #presenter
@RojCowles @daburudar @jpkmensah
The perfect summary for the "Better in the App" pattern. #uidesign #uxdesign #darkpattern #app
iA Presenter is an inspired piece of software that makesthe process of creating a presentation a joy. This talk about the process of designing this app is fascinating. If you love software and productivity, it’s a must watch https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=k8WrzaKu3zg&feature=youtu.be #uxdesign #design #product
#Design #Approaches
Future-first design thinking · How design can contribute to a sustainable future https://ilo.im/139ypa
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#Mindset #Environment #Sustainability #SustainableDesign #ProductDesign #UxDesign #UiDesign #WebDesign #Personas
#Design #Approaches
Future-first design thinking · How design can contribute to a sustainable future https://ilo.im/139ypa
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#Mindset #Environment #Sustainability #SustainableDesign #ProductDesign #UxDesign #UiDesign #WebDesign #Personas
I started watching a movie last weekend and now I can't remember which streaming service it was on.
I get choice breeds competition but it also makes for frustrating #UXDesign (I'm not asking for cable companies to come back!) But splintering my experience across 7 services has significant consumer drawbacks.
I don't know, maybe if they offered their catalog as an API (w/ billing) so a single service could unify them? Silly me, that's against late-stage capitalism where companies > people #UX
"Potential app" created designs for how Apple could support healthy usage patterns for iPhone users:
https://potentialapp.notion.site/iOS-15-Humane-0a3b8bd4d31e412080c4372aa6af3656
Their ideas include measuring "time well spent" and mandating settings for attention-draining patterns like infinite scroll. Really inspiring work.
Humane By Design's 7 principles, by Jon Yablonski:
https://humanebydesign.com/principles/
A thought-provoking way of assessing to what extent our design work helps people to thrive.
Thanks for having me show #UXDesign principles for scientific posters & presentations at #InterPore2023 in #Edinburgh!
Wonder if anyone has ever written about the accessibility of credit/debit card design because so many of them are utter crap. Extremely small text, often dark text on a dark background, important info/text that rubs off easily too. #ux #uxdesign #accessibility
#Design #Collections
Make-It-Accessible · A valuable resource for creating accessible web experiences https://ilo.im/139b8p
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#Accessibility #A11y #Inclusion #UxDesign #UiDesign #WebDesign #Development #WebDevelopment #WebDev #Website #Blog #Frontend #Content
The diagram contributes a communication science perspective to better understand when, where and how in the use and application of these AI tools that one can make an effort to improve for example
* comprehensibility,
* satisfaction and
* benefit.
It is useful in implementation planning, design decisions, communicative efforts and training. I've provided a complete walkthrough of all components.
And you are free to use it in your work (PDF download in the post).
https://axbom.com/aicom/
#DigitalEthics #AIEthics #UXDesign #CommunicationModel
Length is not the problem; lack of rhythm is. https://www.chrbutler.com/the-rhythm-of-your-screen #ux #uxdesign #informationarchitecture
#Design #Outlooks
Dynamic interfaces · What if a UI can anticipate user needs and iterate itself? https://ilo.im/1385xm
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#AI #LLM #UI #DynamicInterface #ProductDesign #UxDesign #UiDesign #WebDesign #AutoIteration #ContextualPlacement #Personalization #MultiDevice #MVC
#Design #Techniques
Avoiding dark patterns in web design · Ethical alternatives to deceptive patterns benefit everyone in the end https://ilo.im/1369ct
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#UserManipulation #DarkPatterns #DeceptiveDesign #ProductDesign #UxDesign #UiDesign #WebDesign #DesignPatterns #Ethics #Trust #Conversion
In this episode, Laura shares her personal experience, and ways we can design more inclusively.
Laura, with help from Jane McFadyen and Rachel Malic, has carried out extensive research into dyscalculia, maths anxiety and low numeracy, and created the accessible numbers project to help design better for people who struggle with numbers.
More on that here: https://accessiblenumbers.com
#Dyscalculia #InclusiveDesign #DesignSystems #UXDesign #UXWriting #A11y
New episode of #SystemsOfHarm just dropped 🎉
This week I’m talking to @LauraParkerUX about design systems and dyscalculia - a persistent difficulty in understanding numbers.
Apple: https://apple.co/3C3d0gY
Spotify: https://spoti.fi/3oDbCOQ
Around 6% of the population has dyscalculia, affecting their ability to do tasks like tell the time, deal with financial matters, and transpose reference numbers.
#dyscalculia #InclusiveDesign #DesignSystems #UXDesign #A11y
Check out the #IxDA awards winners https://ixda-awards.webflow.io/winners-finalista?year=2023
Take your answers from a survey, put them into Figjam and start aggregating them.
That’s called affinity mapping. You group together similar or related answers from your survey and find out what bothers your users most.
What are your experiences with affinity mapping?
Just go to the self checkout, they said....
it will be fast and easy as hell, they said...
5 minutes later... 🥴🥴
Week 3 of Stray - We return to the Outside! Join me and the #MagicMafia on #Twitch for gaming (and puppetry) with #GameDev and #UXDesign chat. 10AM PT - 1PM PT https://twitch.tv/funnygodmother
Someone said "There's a new Playstation handheld, but it is tied to the console in the home." And I said...
"Sony made the Wii U?!?!"
#gamedev #uxdesign #nintendo #sony #sonyProjectQ
https://www.polygon.com/23738454/project-q-handheld-ps5-remote-play-sony-analysis
If you’ve watched my #NEBULAS2023 monologue and you’re inspired to learn more about some of the topics I mention from my book #DesignBeyondDevices, you can find it here: #UXDesign #nebulaAwards
I’m still getting a lot of folks curious about how to find my #NebulaAwards opening monologue about my path through game design, UX, acting, #StarTrek, #JurassicPark, and how it all speaks to the power of science fiction and fantasy to inspire us. 🖖
Watch it here: https://youtu.be/uMrWwYAK1F8
I don’t know what’s going on behind the scenes at #hbomax or #warnerbrosdiscovery. This isn’t about a single designer or design decision - it is likely a series of misguided business and comms decisions.
But for goodness’ sake - DO NOT claim a change like this is going to be “seamless”. In fact, never promise seamless change. Forcing a switch between apps is INHERENTLY a seam. #uxdesign https://www.vulture.com/article/do-hbo-max-users-have-to-do-anything-to-switch-to-max.html
When you throw up experience barriers like separate apps solely for vanity or rebranding purposes, you are creating a natural inflection point for customers to reconsider their relationship with you and go elsewhere.
If you HAVE to throw the whole thing out and start over? Make sure your new start provides novel value to ease the transition. #uxdesign #hbomax
When humans change their names, it’s a lot of work, but it lands on them - so the folks who love them can deal with the small amount of cognitive load around remembering the new name.
When MAX changed their brand, it’s like they made all their customers go to the court proceedings for a name change. Everyone had to pay the time tax. And for what - to anger the creators who make the content with poorly considered credits? #uxdesign