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The Future of Expertise in Design: Reimagining How I Show Up as an Expert in the Design Process

  • Customer Experience, Design, Design Theory, Persuasive Design, Research Methods and Techniques, The Evolution of Research, Usability, UX Education, UX Magazine

While methods and processes remain important, what is essential for changing how we design is having a commitment to an objective, a mindset, a motivation that can help us reflect on and critique how we do our work. 3 big critiques of commonly held assumptions that drive the design process and the corresponding mindset shifts that are emerging around these critiques. 

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The Future of Expertise in Design: Reimagining How I Show Up as an Expert in the Design Process
  • While methods and processes remain important, what is essential for changing how we design is having a commitment to an objective, a mindset, and a motivation that can help us reflect on and critique how we do our work.
  • Assumptions for expertise in design:
    1. Design impact is the value exchange with the people we learn from in research.
    2. Co-design gives people agency in the design process
    3. A beginners’ mindset helps us see challenges with fresh eyes
  • The author explores three shifts that make him reimagine how he shows up as an expert and decision maker:
    • Shift #1: Go from transactional to mutually beneficial engagement in research.
    • Shift #2: Move from gathering participant feedback to being participant-guided.
    • Shift #3: Instead of focusing on people, focus on people in systems.
  • Сommunity-led design methods give designers an opportunity to reimagine how their expertise and skills can be more meaningful.
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How filter bubbles confirm our biases and what we can do about it

  • Behavioral Science, Consumer products, Design, Persuasive Design, Product design, Social Networking

Our interactions provide personalization algorithms with data, which in turn, provide us with tailored content.

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Bingewatch Culture: Netflix, UX and the slow demise of moderation

  • Analytics and Tracking, Behavioral Science, Consumer products, Content Strategy, Customer Experience, Design, Entertainment and Humor, Form design, New and Emerging Technologies, Persuasive Design, Product design, Psychology and Human Behavior

As it stands today, consumption of content is at an all-time high, and it’s on its way upwards.

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6 Ways Psychology Affects Your Design Work

  • Behavioral Science, Design, Design Theory, Emotion, Empathy, Human factors, Neuroscience, Personas, Persuasive Design, Team Dynamics

Biases often creep into our design decisions. We should avoid such biases and understand the importance of staying neutral while evaluating everyone’s opinion.

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The Price Of Not Using UX Patterns

  • Accessibility, Contextual User Studies, Decision Architecture, Design, Design Theory, Direct Observation Research, Gestures, Human factors, Input devices, Interaction Design, Interface and Navigation Design, Mobile Applications, Patterns and Components, Persuasive Design, Research Methods and Techniques, Technology, Touch, Usability, User Acceptance Testing, User Reported Feedback

When users are accustomed to using a pattern, even a minor change in that pattern can be very expensive in performance terms.

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Announcing Winners in the 2014 Design for Experience Awards

  • Accessibility, Agile and Iterative Process, Analytics and Tracking, Android, Apple, Apple iOS, Business Value and ROI, Cloud Computing, Consumer products, Content and Copy, Content Strategy, Contextual User Studies, Customer Experience, Data visualization, Design, Design for Experience Awards, Design Tools and Software, Emotion, Empathy, Facebook, Google, Government and Public Services, Healthcare, Information Design and Architecture, Input devices, Interaction Design, Interface and Navigation Design, Internal Company Dynamics, Internal Company Systems and Intranets, iPad, iPhone, Location-Based Services, Marketing and Brand, Mobile Applications, Mobile Technology, New and Emerging Technologies, Operating Systems, Personal and Professional Development, Personas, Persuasive Design, Product design, Product Releases and Redesigns, Project Management, Prototypes, Psychology and Human Behavior, Remote Research, Requirements and Specifications, Research Methods and Techniques, Research Tools and Software, Sketching, Software, Software as a Service, Sound and Audio, Storytelling, Strategy, Tablet, Team Dynamics, Technology, Technology for the Common Good, Twitter, Ubiquitous Computing, Usability, User Acceptance Testing, User Adoption, User Reported Feedback, UX Magazine, Video, Visual Design, Voice & Natural Language

Here they are! The winners of the 2014 international Design for Experience awards.

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