Combining Graphical And Voice Interfaces For A Better User Experience
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With the appearance of voice user interfaces, AI and chatbots, what is the future of graphical user interfaces (GUIs)? Don’t worry: Despite some dark predictions, GUIs will stay around for many years to come. Let me share my personal, humble predictions and introduce multi-modal interfaces as a more human way of communication between user and machine.
The old wisdom that a picture is worth a thousand words is still true today. Our brain is an incredible image-processing machine. We can understand complex information faster when we see it visually. According to studies, even when we talk with someone else, nonverbal communication represents two thirds of the conversation. According to other studies, we absorb most information from our sight (83% sight, 11% hearing, 3% smell, 2% touch and 1% taste). In short, our eyes are our primary sensors.
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How Functional Animation Helps Improve User Experience
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Since humans are visually driven creatures, the impact of imagery only increases with the help of animation. Our eyes innately pay attention to moving objects, and animation is like eye candy — catchy and bright elements that call attention to and help differentiate an app from its competitors.
As of late, more and more designers are incorporating animation as a functional element that enhances the user experience. Animation is no longer just for delight; it is one of the most important tools for successful interaction.
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Web Applications – Why no scrollbars?
We’ve recently started developing a web application and are having problems with responsiveness in the design. Every time I try suggest a scrollbar as a solution I am told “No, it’s an application so it mustn’t have any scrol…
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When I go on websites like a blog, they almost all do the terrible mistake of showing me this immediately when I enter the site:
And I think we can all agree that this method only gets blocked, which is terrible for user e…
How should I show disabled state in table?
Let me explain a problem at first!
I am making a mockups for a web service hardly consisted of tables. Every table has action at the end of each row. So, every set of actions refers to certain row. At some parts of applicati…
CTA-button in header-hierarchy to make the CTA more accessible
At the top of our web app, we have a heading followed by a CTA-button.
Something like this mockup i just made up:
download bmml source – Wireframes created with Balsamiq Mockups
Mission: Id like to make the CTA…
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I have a very basic question. I would like to know the difference between a sticker and an emoji (as used in text messaging). Are they the same thing, our is there a difference? Is it just the size (with emojis being inserted…
Stickers versus Emojis: what is the difference?
I have a very basic question. I would like to know the difference between a sticker and an emoji (as used in text messaging). Are they the same thing, our is there a difference? Is it just the size (with emojis being inserted…
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Designing warning/confirmation dialogue box
Currently working on a design which will prompt a dialogue box with confirmation message. Just some background on the design, when user attempt to add or delete data from a grid, a dialogue box will appear warning the users t…