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Shay Ben-Barak

Founder | UXD

Shay Ben-Barak (@ShayUXD) is a freelance experience strategist and senior usability expert. For the last 15 years he is leading projects from the early inventive stages of understanding the users’ needs, throughout the process of concept design, to the detailed interaction design and visual design. He is experienced with mobile devices, legacy applications and web applications, and he was involved with development of consumers apps as well as complex systems (e.g. financial, medical, ERP and C4I systems) for professionals. Shay is also a UX mentor at the Google Campus TLV which is a pro bono publico activity of mentoring startups and entrepreneurs in their initial steps towards their very first UX prototype.

Shay owns a master’s degree (M.Sc.) in cognitive science from the Technion and his master thesis about Mental Models was published in chapter 5 in this book.

The Price Of Not Using UX Patterns

Accessibility, Contextual User Studies, Decision Architecture, Design, Design Theory, Direct Observation Research, Gestures, Human factors, Input devices, Interaction Design, Interface and Navigation Design, Mobile Applications, Patterns and Components, Persuasive Design, Research Methods and Techniques, Technology, Touch, Usability, User Acceptance Testing, User Reported Feedback

When users are accustomed to using a pattern, even a minor change in that pattern can be very expensive in performance terms.

Article by Shay Ben-Barak

February 2, 2016

6 min read

Crowdsourcing Is Social, but Does Not a Social Network Make

Analytics and Tracking, Android, Apple, Apple iOS, Consumer products, Content and Copy, Data visualization, Design, Google, Interface and Navigation Design, iPhone, Location-Based Services, Mobile Applications, Mobile Technology, Product design, Product Releases and Redesigns, Social Networking, Usability, Visual Design

A loyal Waze user thinks the move toward social networking in newer versions of the app is a wrong turn.

Article by Shay Ben-Barak

October 15, 2014

3 min read

What Happened to My Radio App?

Android, Design, Flow and Immersion, Gestures, Information Design and Architecture, Interaction Design, Interface and Navigation Design, Mobile Applications, Mobile Technology, Product design, Product Releases and Redesigns, Reviews, Technology, Touch, Usability

A review of the newest version of the live-radio listening mobile app TuneIn finds some frustrating usability issues—especially for longtime users.

Article by Shay Ben-Barak

June 2, 2014

4 min read

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