We stand with Ukraine and our team members from Ukraine.

A Community Of Over 740,000

Become a member
Twitter Linkedin-in Facebook-f
Home ›› Persuasive Design

Persuasive Design

See All Topics
Read these first

The Cost of Obsessing Over Design Perfection

  • Design, Design Theory, Persuasive Design, Visual Design

The importance of focusing on usability, communication, and relationships over personal preferences and superficial standards.

Article by Michael F. Buckley
IDEAS IN BRIEF
The Cost of Obsessing Over Design Perfection
  • The article delves into the danger of design perfectionism, urging designers to prioritize usability and communication over subjective aesthetics.
Read Article →
Share
Share:The Cost of Obsessing Over Design Perfection
6 min read

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. 

Article by Gabriel Mugar
IDEAS IN BRIEF
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.
Read Article →
Share
Share:The Future of Expertise in Design: Reimagining How I Show Up as an Expert in the Design Process
10 min read
The-Future-of-Expertise-in-Design_-reimagining-How-I-Show-Up-as-an-Expert-in-the-Design-Process-article-image.png

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.

Article by Kashish Masood
Share
Share:How filter bubbles confirm our biases and what we can do about it
4 min read

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.

Article by Kriti Krishan
Share
Share:Bingewatch Culture: Netflix, UX and the slow demise of moderation
7 min read

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.

Article by Abhishek Umrao
Share
Share:6 Ways Psychology Affects Your Design Work
8 min read

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.

Article by Shay Ben-Barak
Share
Share:The Price Of Not Using UX Patterns
6 min read
✕

UX Magazine produces the most popular podcast about conversational AI

Listen to Invisible Machines

Join 740,000 designers, thinkers, and doers.

Become a member

This website uses cookies to ensure you get the best experience on our website. Check our privacy policy and

Accept policy