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The UX of Notifications | How to Master the Art of Interrupting

  • Behavioral Science, Contextual User Studies, UX Education

Stop frustrating your users. Invest in notification strategy instead.

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The UX of Notifications | How to Master the Art of Interrupting
  • As part of UX, notifications are key to leading the user to a better interaction with the product. Therefore, notification strategy should have a central role in UX design.
  • A good starting point is to create a user’s journey map and identify major pain points. This should serve to understand when and where notifications might be of help, rather than create confusion.
  • It’s a good practice to use a variety of notifications and provide the user with opt-outs so they don’t feel overwhelmed.
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The Liminal Space Between Meaning and Emotion

  • Behavioral Science, Business Value and ROI, Contextual User Studies
This article explores how the liminal space between meaning and emotion came to be, and how designers can beat it by focusing on users.
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The Liminal Space Between Meaning and Emotion
  • To innovate well is to search for meaning behind the innovation first. This requires investing time into discovering what users need and think of unique ways to serve them and better solve their problems.
  • Emotions are widely misunderstood in UX design and often manipulation is used to predict user behavior. However, a much better approach to UX design is storyscaping, which aims at empowering users, rather than controlling them.

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Building digital products for the web’s next billion users

  • Design
A significant subset of the global population cannot participate on the internet simply because the internet has not been built for them. Some ideas on how to address it.
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Building digital products for the web’s next billion users
  • Connectivity issues are further inflated by accessibility gaps. This, in turn, undermines user experience and creates obstacles for the wider use of digital products.
  • When designing for users, it’s worth considering such issues as poor connectivity, accessibility constraints, levels of technological literacy within different countries and cultural barriers.
  • In order to satisfy the needs of the next 3 billion users, it’s vital to build inclusive and accessible products that will provide solutions to the critical problems the next generation will face.
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A New Design-Centered Meeting Framework: Better Capture the Product Design Narrative

  • Customer Experience, Design, Emotion
How to have productive design conversations and incentivise collaboration in the remote working era.
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A New Design-Centered Meeting Framework: Better Capture the Product Design Narrative
  • Understanding what users feel when using the product is the path towards a great user experience.
  • A good starting point is to research who are the users and subsequently map their emotions at different stages of using the product.
  • Once users emotional background is figured out, it’s easier to frame problems, prevent negative emotions and build a greater user experience.

Read the full article to learn about designing great interactions that suit human emotions.

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Experience Design For “Targeted” User Emotion

  • Emotion

The Practical Workbook for Product Experience Design

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Experience Design For “Targeted” User Emotion
  • Understanding what users feel when using the product is the path towards a great user experience.
  • A good starting point is to research who are the users and subsequently map their emotions at different stages of using the product.
  • Once users emotional background is figured out, it’s easier to frame problems, prevent negative emotions and build a greater user experience.

Read the full article to learn about designing great interactions that suit human emotions.

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