A UX Guide to CSCW Software: Updating Our Toolkits
In the last month, the entire world has moved online. Many UX-related issues have been encountered as we’ve made this shift. This online trend will continue well after COVID-19 isolation ends and raises the questions of how will we, as UX practitioners, make these software experiences better? Why are there so many issues with collaboration software online? Likely because the product teams who built them tried to apply the methods we’d use for single-user systems to groupware.
The Scientific Approach to Designing for Behavior Change
In a previous article, we wrote about how user research can sometimes be misleading. How do we bridge this gap and design products based on actual user behavior? That’s where behavioral design comes in. Behavioral design takes into account that consumers aren’t good at predicting their behavior thanks to an abundance of cognitive biases and digs deeper into the psychology of decision making—behavioral science.
The Scientific Approach to Designing for Behavior Change
In a previous article, we wrote about how user research can sometimes be misleading. How do we bridge this gap and design products based on actual user behavior? That’s where behavioral design comes in. Behavioral design takes into account that consumers aren’t good at predicting their behavior thanks to an abundance of cognitive biases and digs deeper into the psychology of decision making—behavioral science.
Design Systems: 5 Steps to Impress a Hiring Manager in your Next UX Interview
If you’re on the job market in the UX design field, chances are you will be asked about design systems in your next interview. Don’t make the mistake of thinking a design system is just a UI kit and forgo preparing for this popular interview topic. The next time a hiring manager asks you about design systems, you will be able to intelligently respond. If you follow these steps, you will no longer lack hands-on design system experience. You can be the rare bird that goes above and beyond and land your dream job.
"Click here if you are not redirected automatically"
After the users have filled in a form, they hit submit.
There are a lot of things happening behind the scenes the users won’t see, so we send them to a page that says:
Click here if you are not redirected automatically.
Next to the phras…
UX IRL: Uber Eats’ Crummy Checkout
Fries in hand, Jonathan picks apart the Uber Eats checkout experience, highlighting some important UX lessons about handling people’s money and frictionless purchasing.
What Google Search Shows Us About the Future of Product Design
From the day it launched 21 years ago, Google Search has been a case study in remarkable design. By studying its past and present, we can get a hint at what the future of product design will look like.
Interface for preventing certain items to be combinational with each other
Suppose that I have three lists with items [A1, …, A10], [B1, …, B10] and [C1, …, C10] and I apply the cartesian product on those lists. Then I will get [[A1, B1, C1], [A2, B1, C1], …]
Now I need a user interface that allows a use…
UX Dark Patterns: Manipulinks and Confirmshaming
Marketers are taking more extreme tactics to get Internet users to convert. They’re even resorting to psychological tactics, like shaming. Learn why confirmshaming doesn’t actually work.
UX Dark Patterns: Manipulinks and Confirmshaming
Marketers are taking more extreme tactics to get Internet users to convert. They’re even resorting to psychological tactics, like shaming. Learn why confirmshaming doesn’t actually work.