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The Power of Localization in User Experience

  • Consumer products, Contextual User Studies, Customer Experience, Global Products and Localization, User Adoption, UX Education

How adapting our products to different locations led to better business results and happier users.

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The Power of Localization in User Experience
  • In the article, the author describes how Wix, with over 238 million users, focuses on providing a localized experience for their non-English-speaking users.
  • Good localization builds trust with users, which benefits the business in the long run. The article demonstrates how Wix adapts to Japanese, French, Brazilian, and other cultures.
  • The author gives advice on how to promote localization in your own company:
    • Raise awareness of its importance and value.
    • Consider factors such as language, cultural sensitivity, currency, date formats, gender, and local etiquette.
    • Attribute resources to localization and involve them in the design process early on.
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Can Human-AI Collaboration Enhance Empathy?

  • Contextual User Studies, Defining AI, Emotion, Empathy

Can artificial intelligence help people be more supportive of each other in online conversations? 

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Can Human-AI Collaboration Enhance Empathy?
  • The author analyzes the recent study on the opportunity for open-ended, social, creative empathic discussions to benefit from feedback-driven, AI-in-the-loop writing systems.
  • Due to AI systems’ difficulty in comprehending complex human emotions and the open-ended nature of these jobs, such human-AI collaboration poses difficulties for more difficult, creative tasks, like carrying out empathetic discussions.
  • The author names a number of design opportunities and challenges when it comes to developing AI systems that support empathy.
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Most Read Articles of Q4 2022

  • Accessibility, Contextual User Studies, Customer Experience, Defining AI, Design, Search, SEO, and SEM, Usability, UX Education

Here are the top 10 most-read UX Magazine articles in Q4 of 2022. This collection of articles was read, shared, and discussed the most.

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Introducing Voice Search Experience at Booking.com

  • Consumer products, Contextual User Studies, Customer Experience, Information Design and Architecture, Interaction Design, Product design, Product Releases and Redesigns, Usability, Voice & Natural Language
A case study on how Booking.com leveled up its UX through trial and error.
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Introducing Voice Search Experience at Booking.com
  • The author demonstrates the showcase of introducing a voice search experience at one of the global online travel companies – Booking.com.
  • The article leads us through every stage of shipping a product using machine learning and a new UX and interaction:
    • A product discovery process for user requirements led to the initial step in creating conversational interaction and prioritizing MVP features.
    • After that, the team matched the list of software and algorithmic parts to either already-existing or yet-to-be-built capabilities.
    • The next step is to establish a taxonomy of relevant user journeys and intents (actions we should support and map to the appropriate app screens and inputs).
    • The design and initial interface for the app’s home screen were created as the final step to enable users to conduct any post-booking or search action using voice commands.
  • There is always room for improvement when introducing an innovative experience. Constant work in research and development is a key to a smoother and more individualized experience through a better understanding of intents.
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Apple Maps vs Google Maps

  • Accessibility, Apple, Apple iOS, Consumer products, Contextual User Studies, Customer Experience, Data visualization, Design, Google, Information Design and Architecture, iPhone, Location-Based Services, Mobile Applications, Mobile Technology, Things UX People Like, Usability, Visual Design

A deep dive into the map apps rivalry.

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Apple Maps vs Google Maps
  • Apple and Google have battled for control of the map applications market for almost ten years. The article provides an illustration of the advantages and disadvantages of each app.
  • The success of Google Maps can be explained by the following aspects:
    • The breadth of data.
    • Better сontextualization of data.
    • Reliability partners for sourcing data.
    • Accuracy of routes and shortcuts for pedestrians.
  • Nevertheless, Apple has some strong features, especially when it comes to handling stressful situations (e.g. calming and very human narration, detailed parking location information).
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Influencing UX Stakeholder Values: 6 Ways to Convey the Significance of User Research

  • Contextual User Studies, Customer Experience, Design, Design Theory, Interviews, Product design, Project Management, Research Methods and Techniques

Has UX research ever been the priority for your stakeholders? If not, here are some ways to convey its significance.

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Influencing UX Stakeholder Values: 6 Ways to Convey the Significance of User Research
  • When stakeholders have insights around user needs, goals and behaviors, the team can make evidence-based decisions.
  • One of the most common pain points are having to communicate and prove the value of UX and user research to leadership.
  • One author shares some ideas to overcome this:
    1. Understand the “why” behind the push-back
    2. Speak your stakeholders’ language
    3. Don’t fight the battle alone
    4. Find and use tools made by the government, for the government
    5. Identify quick wins to show the value of UX faster
    6. Get better value for stakeholders out of the user research
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