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Digital Transformation — What Exactly Is It?

  • Customer Experience, Design Tools and Software, Usability, UX Education, UX Magazine

A basic perspective of Digital Transformation (DX) and its implications to organizations

Article by Sukanya P
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Digital Transformation — What Exactly Is It?
  • The author defines the following key terms:
    • Digital
    • Transformation
    • Digital Transformation
  • For most organizations, the goals for digital transformation can be classified into the following:
    • Improve customer experience
    • Inhance business processes
    • Develop new business models
  • Reasons why companies might decide to go for digital transformation:
    • The change in the consumer behavior due to the heavy penetration of mobiles
    • Process efficiency enabled by technology in some industries
    • Organizations that do not adapt to the newer technologies will eventually face an existential crisis

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YOU GOT THIS: An App Designed to Connect, Educate and Empower People Through Their Loss

  • Accessibility, Customer Experience, Design, Empathy, Remote Research, Usability, UX Education, UX Magazine

The project was to design a platform that educates and supports the wishes of those passing, as well as those who are left to mourn by using the design thinking process model.

Article by Jennifer ODonnell
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YOU GOT THIS: An App Designed to Connect, Educate and Empower People Through Their Loss
  • The author designed a platform to educate and support the wishes of those passing, as well as those who are left to mourn.
  • The challenge was to understand the sensitive process of EOL (End of Life) Care and what individuals need.
  • The author’s idea was to create an app that would:
    • Perform daily check-ins
    • Provide resources
    • Provide tips
    • Connect people
  • The author’s approach to this challenge was based on the design thinking process model.
  • The author of this article unpacks the research process:
    • Qualitative analysis
    • Competitive analysis & industry standards
    • User interviews
    • Ideation
    • Prototyping
  • Key takeaways: 
    • Make MVP a key to staying focused
    • Keep iterating
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Conversational Design

  • Accessibility, Artificial Intelligence, Customer Experience, Defining AI, Design, Usability, UX Education, UX Magazine, Visual Design, Voice & Natural Language

An ultimate guide to conversational UX (CUX). Conversational UX principles.

Article by Sudarshan Sahu
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Conversational Design
  • The author defines “conversational UX as a user experience that combines chat, voice or any other natural language-based technology to mimic a human conversation.”
  • The author looks at the following conversational UX Principles:
    •  Affordances
    • Signifiers
    • Feedback
  • Conversational user interface & principles:
    • Cooperative Principle (discover hidden intentions)
    • Turn-Taking (give users a space to interact)
    • Context-aware (in context / out of context)
  • While designing virtual assistants, the author suggests taking two things into consideration:
    1. How to set user expectations and educate users about what their assistants can do
    2. How to help these users
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Personas — Training Wheels

  • Customer Experience, Design, Personas, Usability, UX Education, UX Magazine

A persona-hater’s guide to teaching with personas

Article by Lindsey Wallace
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Personas — Training Wheels
  • Personas can help build an organizations’ capacity to imagine the people who use and interact with their products.
  • The author’s take on what’s useful about personas:
    • Personas help teams build a shared language to argue with when they have to work together.
    • Personas can show teams when they need to think with a higher level of specificity.
    • Using personas helps teams create hypotheses about who our users are and what matters to them.
    • Personas give a framework that helps cross-functional teams easily understand research insights and implications.
  • Personas need never replace research, but they can be a useful tool to begin to value them enough to bring their individual success or failure into designers’ decision-making.
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How To Make CX/UX Agile In 5 Steps

  • Customer Experience, Design, Design Theory, Usability, UX Education, UX Magazine

Transition towards customer-centricity and make your UX/CX agile by following 5 steps

Article by Debbie Levitt
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How To Make CX/UX Agile In 5 Steps
  • Debbie Levitt suggests her 5 steps to transform however you’re doing Agile towards Customer-Centric Agile:
    1. Hire fully qualified CX and UX pros to do CX and UX work
    2. Hire CX/UX at a nearly 1:1 ratio with engineering
    3. Kill most meetings, five UX decision-making autonomy
    4. Estimate time and plan
    5. Tri-Track Customer-Centric Agile
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Case Study: UX Research On How Can We Better Understand The Way People Travel?

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A first user research project on how to better understand the way people travel

Article by Jeevanantham Kathirvel
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Case Study: UX Research On How Can We Better Understand The Way People Travel?
  • The author unpacks the behavioral change that the pandemic created for people planning vacations, and he provides solutions for traveling safely.
  • Stage 1 of the design process:
    • Quantitative/Secondary Research
    • Analyzing insights from the virtual users
  • Stage 2 of the design process:
    • User sets
    • User Personas
  • Stage 3 of the design process:
    • Ideation
  • Major takeaways from this project:
    • Unlearn to be perfect, iterate and test our work with the users
    • Research is where the real answers can be found
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