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Compassion is a Strategy

  • Behavioral Science, Customer Experience, Design, Design Theory, Emotion, Empathy, Employee Experience, Human factors, Usability, UX Education, UX Magazine

Burned out leaders lead teams to burn out.

Article by Lindsey Wallace
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Compassion is a Strategy
  • The author believes that compassion helps create teams and organizations that foster not just “human centered design” but organizations and structure that help people thrive rather than crushing them.
  • The author shares her own story and gives tips on how to become a more effective compassionate leader:
    • Let go of control and delegate intentionally
    • Caring for yourselves and your families
    • Let the news and the fullness of your experience into work
    • Cancel things
    • Work on your emotional distance
    • Place a higher value on your mental and physical health than on your work
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When Growth Feels Like Failure

  • Behavioral Science, Customer Experience, Design, Design Theory, Emotion, Human factors, Psychology and Human Behavior, Team Dynamics, Usability, UX Education, UX Magazine

3 key things to keep in mind on the way to becoming an influential strategic player

Article by Lindsey Wallace
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When Growth Feels Like Failure
  • UX researchers tend to be people who like to see the impact of their work. However, as researchers climb their career ladders these stories often start to fall apart, causing self-doubt.
  • The authors talks about a few key things to keep in mind on the way to becoming an influential strategic player:
    1. Ripple effects are part of impact.
    2. The bigger the ship the slower the turn
    3. Ownership becomes communal
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Design for the Blind

  • Accessibility, Customer Experience, Design, Empathy, Human factors, Technology, Technology for the Common Good, Usability, UX Education, UX Magazine

Tips on how to design for the blind.

Article by Oscar Gonzalez
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Design for the Blind

The author explains how to design for people using Assistive Technologies and offers 5 tips.

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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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Human-Centered Prototyping Starts With Respect For Human Capacities

  • Behavioral Science, Customer Experience, Design, Human factors, Neuroscience, Usability, UX Education, UX Magazine

People’s autonomy is in their capacities not in their impairments. Learn how human-centred helps understand how capacities, capabilities and autonomy interact.

Article by Alastair Somerville
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Human-Centered Prototyping Starts With Respect For Human Capacities

  • The authors gives his 3-step human-centered prototype model to understand how capacities, capabilities and autonomy interact:

    • Research Capacities
    • Consider Capabilities
    • Build prototypes

  • Researching capacities leads to recognizing the diversity of solutions that come from personal divergence.

  • Reviewing capabilities means looking at what tools/services/communities/assets work successfully to achieve desired outcomes.

  • While building prototypes, it is important to keep the sense of independence and individuality for users.

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Dealing with Impostor Syndrome as a User Researcher

  • Behavioral Science, Customer Experience, Design, Design Theory, Emotion, Empathy, Human factors, Research Methods and Techniques, Usability, UX Education, UX Magazine

Feeling like a fraud? Everyone can experience impostor syndrome when trying something new and user researchers aren’t an exception. However, there are ways to ease this feeling and embrace the fear of failure. It’s time we started dealing with impostor syndrome. Let’s find out the ways to do that.

Article by Nikki Anderson
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Dealing with Impostor Syndrome as a User Researcher
  • Nikki Anderson-Stanier, Founder at User Research Academy, shares her perspective on:
    • Their definition of imposter syndrome
    • Author’s experience of managing impostor syndrome throughout her career
    • Ways impostor syndrome manifests in user research
  • There are some ways to ease the feeling of being an impostor and embrace the fear of failure:
    • Try a different method or push yourself to present research in a new way.
    • Learn how to take feedback in stride.
    • Own and celebrate your achievements.
    • See yourself as a work-in-progress.
    • If you don’t know, ask for help.
    • Remember you are the expert on this subject.
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