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How AI and View-Masters are Helping Us Reimagine the Future

  • 3D Graphics and Interfaces, Artificial Intelligence, Conversational Design, Design, Government and Public Services, Presentations, Technology, The rise of design
Article by Jenna Fizel
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How AI and View-Masters are Helping Us Reimagine the Future
  • The article discusses how IDEO used AI tools to create retrofuturistic View-Master-style images for a futuring workshop on post-COVID D.C., with physical prints evoking visions of a greener, more connected future for the city.
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Play Is the Point: How UX Designers Can Break Into the Gaming Industry

  • 3D Graphics and Interfaces, Augmented Reality, Design, Gaming, Mobile Applications, Mobile Technology, Personal and Professional Development, Requirements and Specifications, Visual Design

There are many ways for game UX designers to break into this multibillion-dollar industry. Using her 14 years of video game UX expertise, designer Pam Nicholls shares how.

Article by Pam Nicholls
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Play Is the Point: How UX Designers Can Break Into the Gaming Industry
  • The video game industry is worth billions of dollars, and more game studios are incorporating UX specialists into the development process.
  • The role of a UX designer in the gaming industry depends on the platform: console, mobile, or PC.
  • UX designers can bring value to the development process by introducing players to the game, promoting inclusive design, and balancing game monetization and UX.
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Designing the Perfect Button

  • 3D Graphics and Interfaces, Accessibility, Behavioral Science, Customer Experience, Design, Design Tools and Software, Interaction Design, Interface and Navigation Design, Mobile Applications, Mobile Technology, Motion and Animation, Usability, UX Education, UX Magazine

Everything you need to know about what makes a button great.

Article by Domas Markevicius
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Designing the Perfect Button
  • Buttons are one of the main UI elements in interactive design and most businesses measure their success by button clicks.
  • The author covers the principles for a good button design at Wix:
    • Making a button clear
    • Making a button findable
    • Making a button identifiable
    • Maintaining clear, predictable and simple text
    • Using single icon buttons with caution
    • Minding hierarchy and emphasis
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Creating Usability with Motion: The UX in Motion Manifesto

  • 3D Graphics and Interfaces, Accessibility, Customer Experience, Design, Design Theory, Motion and Animation, Usability, UX Education, UX Magazine, Video, Visual Design

The following manifesto represents my answer to the question — “As a UX or UI, designer, how do I know when and where to implement motion to support usability?”

Article by Issara Willenskomer
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Creating Usability with Motion: The UX in Motion Manifesto
  • After over fifteen years of studying motion in user interfaces, the author believes that there are 12 specific opportunities to support usability in UX projects using motion.
  • UI Animation is to the ‘12 UX in Motion Principles’ as construction is to architecture.
  • The author unpacks the following 5 ideas that help you understand when and where to implement motion to support usability:
    1. Addressing the topic of UI Animation — it’s not what you think.
    2. Realtime vs non-realtime interactions.
    3. Four ways that motion supports usability (expectation, continuity, narrative, and relationship).
    4. Principles, Techniques, Properties, and Values.
    5. The 12 Principles of UX in Motion (easing, offset&delay, parenting, transformation, value change, masking, overlay, cloning, obscuration, parallax, dimensionality and dolly & zoom).
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What Do User Interfaces Want?

  • 3D Graphics and Interfaces, Accessibility, Design, Design Theory, Interaction Design, Interface and Navigation Design, Technology, Visual Design

If technology is essential to our future success and goals, then the means by which we interact with it must be critical.

Article by Rob Tannen
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The Top UX Predictions for 2016

  • 3D Graphics and Interfaces, Analytics and Tracking, Android, Apple iOS, Artificial Intelligence, Business UX Leaders, Consumer products, Customer Experience, Data visualization, Decision Architecture, Design, Design Theory, Form design, Government and Public Services, Human factors, Information Design and Architecture, Input devices, Interaction Design, Interface and Navigation Design, Mobile Applications, Mobile Technology, New and Emerging Technologies, Product design, Psychology and Human Behavior, Software, Strategy, Technology, The Business of UX, Touch, User Adoption, Visual Design, Wireframes

UX Magazine contributors give us their predictions for the trends and developments that will shape experience design in 2016.

Article by UX Magazine Staff
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