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The Best Design System Is No System

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

The idea of design systems can be found throughout history. In order to meet expanding needs, designers turn to design systems to streamline design with the hopes of providing value at lower cost and effort.

Article by Tony Olsson
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The Best Design System Is No System
  • The idea of design systems might still be new to some but fairly established in UI design for some years now while the idea of a systemized approach to design can be found throughout history.
  • Tony Olsson, Lead Product Designer at Axis Communications, makes you question the capabilities of a system by recollecting past history events.
  • The ideas behind design systems are based on system thinking which assumes that a whole can not be fully explained in terms of its parts and can not be understood without reference to its environment.
  • The design system encourages fragmentation and isolation of design problems with clear answers, constraints, feedback loops in linear stages.
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Time to reflect on my future in the age of AI

  • Artificial Intelligence, Augmented Reality, Conversational Design, Customer Experience, Defining AI, Usability, UX Education, UX Magazine

Artificial intelligence (AI) could soon surpass human intelligence. Having both advantages and disadvantages, it still creates powerful opportunities and produces more accurate customer-behavior models.

Article by Sonia P.
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Time to reflect on my future in the age of AI
  • Since AI-driven processes can create powerful opportunities to improve producing more accurate customer-behavior models, many traditional businesses will soon transform their core processes and business models to take advantage of ML.
  • Sonia P., People-Centric Design Enthusiast, brigs up such questions related to the role of AI in the future:
    • What’s exciting about AI?
    • What’s worrying?
    • How will we work with machines?
  • In order to make machines that behave better for humans is for UX designers to take all factors into considerations, bridge the gap and merge the knowledge from all sides to define the best solution.
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How I Use UX Research in Speech Therapy

  • Behavioral Science, Customer Experience, Design, Usability, UX Education, UX Magazine

There are numerous qualitative methods with students as users. Finding the right AAC system and implementing it effectively is essential to give every student access to communication.

Article by Kate Paolini
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How I Use UX Research in Speech Therapy
  • Kate Paolini, UX Researcher, and Speech-Language Pathologist digs deeper into how her students using augmentative and alternative communication (AAC) can benefit from a UX research approach.
  • Communication is much more than speech; therefore, finding the right AAC system and implementing it effectively is essential to give every student access to communication.
  • Kate Paolini conducted the research with the help of the following methods:
    • Buy-In & Initial Methods
    • Designing the AAC System for the User
    • Access & Education
    • Observations & Data Tracking
    • Heuristic Evaluation
    • Assess, Adapt, Repeat
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Quantitative Concept Testing

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

How We Bring Users Into Product Decisions Before We Even Start Designing

Article by Leah Acosta
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Quantitative Concept Testing
  • Quantitative concept testing helps ensure that the user voice influences which ideas are developed into testable products what is best for narrowing down the best executions of an idea in the next stage.
  • According to Leah Acosta, quantitative concept testing has two goals:
    1. Identify the most promising concepts for further development from the participants’ perspective, and order them in a ranked list.
    2. Understand the strengths and weaknesses of each concept, and pinpoint low-ranking concepts with hidden promise.
  • When planning the quantitative concept test, the following counts:
    • Identifying segments and markets
    • Setting up the MaxDiff
    • Setting up the sequential monadic survey
  • After working through particular points, you’ll be able to identify which ideas are worth pursuing, which need more discussion, and which to dismiss.
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AI is getting better and better — at being biased.

  • Artificial Intelligence, Behavioral Science, Defining AI, Design, Design Theory, Empathy, Usability, UX Education, UX Magazine

Historically, the values of gender-caste-based minority have been systematically excluded from even being tallied, resulting in gender-biased or gender-invisible prior statistics.

Article by Paula Stenholm
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AI is getting better and better — at being biased.
  • The values of gender-caste-based minority have been systematically excluded from even being tallied, resulting in gender-biased or gender-invisible prior statistics.
  • Data scientists have said that there are two main ways that AI perpetuates gender bias: one is caused by Algorithmic and design flaws and the other is the reinforcement of gender stereotypes through new digital products that project a technological gender.
  • Paula Stenholm, a user experience designer at Ellos Group, gives a lot of reasons why datasets are skewed:
    • Real world patterns of health inequality and discrimination
    • Discriminatory data
    • Application injustices
    • Biased AI design and deployment practices
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The People Paradox: Human Nature’s Impact on Digital Transformation

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

Ways human nature impacts digital transformation and how to build an affective team that will lead to a desired result with the only ingredients that are required to make it a success – people and collaboration.

Article by Ed Vinicombe
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The People Paradox: Human Nature’s Impact on Digital Transformation
  • Many organisations fail to meet their intended goal of digital transformation, because it is primarily a function of people.
  • It’s exactly when people work together collaboratively in pressured environments that we can see the dichotomous impact of human nature on large-scale initiatives like digital transformation.
  • Even though team sizes have become really bloated and organisations can fall into the intelligence trap, with the right environment and culture in place to facilitate that level of collaboration, a large group of smart, diverse people will impede an organisation’s digital transformation ambition.
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