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UX Design for Children: How to Create a Product Children Will Love

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

Create a Product Children Will Love

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UX Design for Children: How to Create a Product Children Will Love
  • Children are a new, unique, and more demanding audience that present more difficulties for design.
  • According to Mariia Kasymova, there are three main niches where child-friendly design is especially needed:
    • Entertainment
    • Online learning
    • Fintech for children
  • Mariia Kasymova presents us with 5 principles for better UX for children:
    • Design for your target age group
    • Choose the color palette and fonts carefully
    • A friendly digital helper
    • Constant feedback and reward.
    • Make it as intuitive as possible
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When UX writers and technical writers unite, content thrives

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6 reasons why UX and documentation teams are stronger together

 

Article by Alana Fialkoff
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When UX writers and technical writers unite, content thrives
  • No matter what position you have, creating successful end-to-end product solutions can’t happen unless you know your product from front to back — and everywhere in between.
  • When UX content designers and technical writers team up, they access superpowers like:
    • Linking to supplemental resources seamlessly within any interface.
    • Infusing our content with in-depth product awareness.
    • Unifying language across product user interfaces and the resources that document them.
    • Gaining valuable UX feedback upfront.
    • Clarifying product functionality (and writing new features understandably the first time).
    • Demonstrating the value of seamless content design.
  • Collaborating with technical writers aligns UX and empowers them to dive deeper.
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Case study: Category hierarchy

  • Customer Experience, Design, Design Tools and Software, Mobile Applications, Mobile Technology, Usability, UX Magazine

Walk through the process of designing for hierarchy and learn its main challenges.

Article by Tornike Kurdadze
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Case study: Category hierarchy
  • Since choosing categories while filtering the content out can be complex and monotonous, it’s crucial to provide categories and subcategories in a visually appealing way.
  • Tornike Kurdadze, Flutter Engineer at Netguru, found a solution for the eCommerce app with multi-levels (about 5 of categories)
  • During testing and research, the author found that when creating hierarchical categories, there are several things to keep in mind:
    • Users should be able to see the path of his/her current selection
    • Users should be able to return to the parent or any descendant category easily
    • Child categories should be different from the parent one
    • Users should not have to scroll a lot
    • Users should be able to search with keywords
    • The overall interface should be smooth and intuitive
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How humans understand identity

  • Behavioral Science, Design, Emotion, Human factors, Personal and Professional Development, Usability, UX Magazine

What is identity and how to define it?

Article by Nima Kamoosi
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How humans understand identity
  • This article explores the different aspects of how a typical user understands concepts related to identity.
  • In order to explicitly understand abstract terms like “identity”, Nima Kamoosi**,** Founder at Universal Identity, suggests looking closely at the following points:
    • Definitions (reiteration of the basic terms and concepts)
    • Economic activities and mental models (our mental models have evolved with significant influence from the economic activities that help sustain us and our societies)
    • Multi-identity (a person’s self-identity morphs depending on the context of the social circle or context it is embedded in)
    • Identity as a tool (identity-related artifacts and tools)
  • The ultimate goal of understanding the mental models of typical users is building intuitive identity systems and applications.
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How to Redesign an App: When to Do It and What to Start With

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

How to redesign an app and what is the purpose of doing a redesign?

Article by Kateryna Mayka
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How to Redesign an App: When to Do It and What to Start With
  • Kateryna Mayk, a content specialist at a SaaS design agency who writes about UI/UX design, defines the purpose of doing a redesign and helps you know if its time for a redesign.
  • Learn more about common reasons for an app redesign:
    • Outdated aesthetics
    • Negative customer reviews
    • Complex interface
    • Rebranding
  • If you do decide to redesign your application, you should think carefully about how to improve not only the appearance (UI) but also the feel of the application (UX).
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5 Reasons Why Designing Simple Experiences is Psychologically Impossible

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

Simple is exponentially harder than complex, namely because there’s a psychological chasm that most teams cannot surpass… or perhaps they have not been setup to succeed.

Article by Joe Smiley
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5 Reasons Why Designing Simple Experiences is Psychologically Impossible
  • Designing simple and seamless experiences is exponentially harder than designing complex solutions
  • Simple solutions require an extraordinary amount of time, money, and skill
  • Other obstacles to simple design include complexity bias, loss aversion, unpredicted behavior, and fear of risks
Read the full article to learn more about the psychology behind designing a simple experience.
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