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How Good User Experience Design Can Help to Solve Some of the Most Troubling Matters in Our Relationship with the Internet

  • Accessibility, Behavioral Science, Customer Experience, Design, Design Theory, Healthcare, Human factors, Psychology and Human Behavior, Technology, Things UX People Like, Usability, UX Education, UX Magazine

Technology dependency, a shortening of the attention span and the overwhelming feeling of being always on in todays society are some of the matters we need to solve in our relationship with the Internet. We are here to create valuable, relevant experiences and it seems that it is more needed than ever.

Article by Robin Fransz
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How Good User Experience Design Can Help to Solve Some of the Most Troubling Matters in Our Relationship with the Internet
  • The Internet has helped us advance significantly in various directions but it also shortened our attention span and gave us the overwhelming feeling of being always on.
  • The author brings up the problem of the Internet impact on people’s lives and believes bad design to be the reason.
  • The author considers Netflix losing subscribers and Disney+’s Obi-Wan Kenobi not getting the expected iMDB score good examples of bad UX design.
  • The problem of being overwhelmed, dependent on technology and even bigger problems like the depression it can cause can be solved by focussing on good user experience design.
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Brain Computer Interfaces (BCIs)

  • Accessibility, Augmented Reality, Cloud Computing, Customer Experience, Defining AI, Design, Design Theory, Development, Neurology, Neuroscience, Technology, Technology for the Common Good, Usability, UX Education, UX Magazine
Article by Charles Adjovu
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Brain Computer Interfaces (BCIs)
  • Brain-computer interfaces (BCIs) are interfaces for recording and processing neurological data and turning these data into an output.
  • Neurodata can be directly recorded, e.g., by a BCI, or indirectly recorded, e.g., an individual’s spinal cord.
  • There are particular privacy risks associated with BCIs that might need the following solutions:
    1. Encryption
    2. Local-first software
    3. Separation of data and compute (or edge computing)
    4. Access control layer
    5. Data cooperative
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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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Voice Search and Voice Interfaces 101

  • Accessibility, Artificial Intelligence, Conversational Design, Customer Experience, Design, Interaction Design, Technology, Technology for the Common Good, Usability, UX Education, UX Magazine, Voice & Natural Language

Typing search queries is gradually becoming an outdated artifact of the past and voice tech is becoming more useful and promising by the day. So what other prospects await for voice tech and why is it so special? We’re about to find out!

Article by Adam Fard
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Voice Search and Voice Interfaces 101
  • This article covers some essential voice search statistics, how people interact with voice interfaces, what can users do with voice and why startups should care about all of this.
  • Typing search queries is gradually becoming an outdated artifact of the past.
  • The author believes that the overwhelming consumer shift towards voice interfaces will inevitably lead to the mass adoption of this technology among startups.
  • How to Design a Voice Interface?
    • Pre-design Stage
    • The Main Design (user research, customer journey mapping, VUI competitor analysis, gathering requirements, prototyping, usability testing)
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Design Token Thinking

  • Accessibility, Analytics and Tracking, Customer Experience, Design, Design Tools and Software, Patterns and Components, Usability, UX Education, UX Magazine

Design tokens aren’t just something that you can easily retrofit into your existing wardrobe. They require an entirely new way of thinking and working. Learn how to start thinking in design tokens by completely changing the way you work with design systems.

Article by Mark Cianfrani
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Design Token Thinking
  • Design tokens require an entirely new way of thinking and working.
  • Designers can be documenting their design system, but the documentation will always be a step behind their design file.
  • The author unpacks the idea of an alternative design system and names it “the way of the future.”
  • Design tokens need to become a primary method for how you talk about and interact with your design system, both internally and externally.
  • In the end, you can get a design system that is:
    1. Future proof
    2. Accessible
    3. Able to be easily changed.
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Affordance in Good Product Design

  • Accessibility, Behavioral Science, Customer Experience, Design, Design Theory, Design Tools and Software, Product design, Usability, UX Education, UX Magazine

 

Article by Wicar Akhtar
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Affordance in Good Product Design
  • Knowing how affordance impact user experience design is necessary for producing high-quality, user-friendly products.
  • The article covers:
    • The definitions of affordances and signifiers
    • Types of affordances
    • How affordances can be used in UX design
    • How to design for the best affordance
  • Using affordances well can reduce the time your customers think and explore so they can achieve their goals faster and easier.
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