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Five Tips for Conducting Scientific Research in the UX World - UX Booth | UX Booth

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Terry Patterson's insight:

Despite the fact that research plays such a pivotal role in the practice of user-centered design, much has been written about how to approach it in a “quick and dirty” manner. Why the rush? I believe that the application of a more rigorous, scientific methodology could lend some much-needed credibility to our approach.

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Five HCI Laws for User Experience Design: Measuring Usability

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Usability is hardly physics or chemistry.

But there are some important principles from decades of research in Human Computer Interaction (HCI) that apply to design and user research.

Terry Patterson's insight:

I absolutely love that HCI research is making such an impact in the user experience practitioner world. However, poorly applied research concepts to working projects can have a less than desirable effect on projects. It is important to know how to use research findings and applicable principles for design guides, otherwise, the risk is too great. Do your own research and test your product often with a sample of your audience; only then you’ll know how well you’ve used the applicable HCI research. Who knows? You can also soon find out new topics and questions for a specific audience segment or culture that have not been explored before. Happy designing!

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The Lean UX Manifesto: Principle-Driven Design | Smashing UX Design

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Why Lean UX is not a process in which each tool is rigidly applied, but rather a set of principles that may be used to guide you to better, more desirable solutions for users.

Terry Patterson's insight:

A process is “a series of steps toward a particular end” - Lean UX defines a series of principles, not rigid steps. Common sense, moderation and simple efficiency practices are to be followed for a streamlined UX process following the Lean principles.

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The 3 Future Waves In Design, And How To Ride Them

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Today’s designers have to be more than surface decorators writes Mark Rolston. They need to become systems designers.

Terry Patterson's insight:

This article highlights what people in the user experience world already know. In short, we have to expect constant change and adapt to the new modes of delivery and user expectations. System design knowledge and confidence is a given for today’s movers and shakers in this field, and learning, well, is the only constant.

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6 Steps to Identifying Usability Problems: Measuring Usability

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"A usability problem is anything in a product or website that leads a user to an undesirable outcome. It's relatively easy to spot when users have problems in an interface."

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Why cards are the future of the web | Inside Intercom

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We are currently witnessing a re-architecture of the web, away from pages and destinations, towards completely personalised experiences built on an aggregation of many individual pieces of content.

Terry Patterson's insight:

I should store this article into a topic for UX trends instead of “Effective UX Design”, however, it is still relevant to the word “effective” in a way. The latest trend, the use of blocks of content or cards has been seen lately in web interfaces from big web players like Google, Twitter, Pinterest, and even Facebook and USA Today have their own metaphor of content blocks. What we are seeing is the decentralization of content in its natural progression of becoming just what they are: “pieces of timely relevant content”. Scoop.it is a perfect example of how users prefer to collect web content and interact with it. Curation is more than listing links with descriptions, it involves interaction, interest and deliberate motivation to connect to others with similar interests. The social web and the information overload we have experienced are contributing to the evolution of these microfeeds of content that can be collected, shared and stored depending on the user’s need for it. I don’t think this is the end of web pages, but it is the evolution of page content hierarchy and structure where the focus is to provide information that adapts to the way a user would want to consume it. Moderns content management systems already break down the page content hierarchy to allow page data output to be extremely flexible for multiple layout needs.

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Human Interest | Trent Walton

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We should aspire to design interfaces that recognize users are humans by mirroring this natural process of relationship building

Terry Patterson's insight:

I saw this article come through Twitter via Kristina Halvorson @halvorson - I thought it is a good testimony as to how much we have to think of the entire experience when designing solutions. My favorite quote from here is “The only way to build is with real people in mind.”

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Designing user interfaces for your mother – 6 key takeaways

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Editors note: This is a guest by Tony Gines, Director of UX/UI at iFixit, user interface designer, team leader, husband, dad, and martini consumer. It happens about once or twice …

Terry Patterson's insight:

I just loved this article! Many times we are designing with assumptions and we don’t pay attention that what it is obvious to us may not be obvious to others. This is the reason why knowing your audience is paramount and knowing how to address issues that we know our audience will run into is something that designers need to always consider. I know many designers who are advocates of the new and hip trends in web technology and interfaces and completely forget paths and context of the user experience that is based on real users. I leave you with this for insight: User research is not a waste of time, it is a necessary step to providing exceptional user experiences for every audience you are trying to reach. Don’t guess what your user experience will be like with your interfaces, get real users and ask the questions! You’ll be surprised with what you find and you’ll be glad you took the time to ask questions.

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Has UX Fallen Out of Love with Personas?

This article from UX Magazine talks about the shifting opinion among UX professionals around the usefulness of personas. In the last 10 or so years, the blurring of lines between marketing and UX personas as well as the development of “half-baked" personas based on limited data collection diminished their status in the UX toolkit. But the article asserts that well-developed personas are a crucial part of good UX design. It outlines how to research and create data-driven, valid personas.

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VIDEO: Thumbs up to gesture-controlled consumer electronics?

A cross-cultural study spanning 18 countries on spontaneous gesture behavior by UX Fellows

The Future Of Technology Isn’t Mobile, It’s Contextual

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Terry Patterson’s insight:

Absolutely love this emergent idea for the future of technology applications! Ever since we start thinking solely about designing solutions that work in this or that device, we’re limiting ourselves. In the same way, when we ignore the context and focus on merely “tasks”, we also limit ourselves. Technology is all around us now and in the future it will be so embedded in our lives that we must take into consideration all kinds of user situations outside of end-goal tasks. Very exciting future for tech, in my opinion. And for designers, very interesting and creatively stimulating time! Happy designing!

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#future of design #uxdesign #contextual-aware design

How to Optimize your Website for Global Users

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The World Wide Web gives anyone the chance to reach a truly global audience. But there’s a lot more to successfully doing so than simply setting up a single English…

Terry Patterson’s insight:

And of course depending on the audience that you’re trying to reach and the content that you offer, it is important to consider cultural factors and easy access of content. In fact, I have seen this turning into a real trend where localization is no longer something considered at the last stage of the project but at the beginning stages because it has merit.

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Responsive Design Using Contextual User Stories - The UX Review

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Terry Patterson’s insight:

It upsets me when I see people simply implementing responsive for the sake of it and not considering context, or at least entertaining prioritization of content in a way that people viewing with mobile can get the best of the content without going through layers of content that do not matter in their context. People, if you are designing responsive, offer context-aware responsive!

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#responsive design

LukeW | New Layouts for the Multi-Device Web

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LukeW Ideation + Design provides resources for mobile and Web product design and strategy including presentations, workshops, articles, books and more on usability, interaction design and visual design.

Terry Patterson’s insight:

We cannot pretend to ignore the multi-device use of today’s websites. Luke Wroblewski reminds us to be mindful of this “new reality” and accommodate accordingly. Happy designing!

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Making shapes in CSS – A bunch of resources:

The shapes of CSS by Chris Coyier

Shapes with CSS – live code examples on Codepen.io

Neo CSS

How to create different shapes in CSS

The Differences Between User Experience and Visual Design | Healthcare IT News

Some healthcare executives mistakenly view UX and visual design as one and the same. However, an attractively designed interface alone does not automatically lead to end user adoption. End users who find an application cumbersome to use or information too difficult to find, for instance, simply will not use it, no matter how pretty it is. Before deploying technology, it is important executives understand the fundamental differences between these two design approaches.

Terry Patterson’s insight:

There is now a lot of information online now about the role of UI in UX, and I think this is better understood now, at least among the designer community. However, what is important to note here is that the interpretation of executives is not yet “up to date” with these distinct roles. I hope user experience professionals are able to help companies understand exactly what the value is when investment is made on building their solutions strategically around user experience.

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