What are good resources to learn the basics of UX?
I’ll keep it simple:
Start with Design of Everyday Things by Don Norman. then Elements of User Experience by JJ Garrett, then Designing for Interaction by Dan Saffer, then Information Architecture for the World Wide Web, and finally Sketching User Experience by Bill Buxton. The path after those books can take you into a million possible directions, but starting there will give you the gravity leap into outer space that you need.
Next to all this is find a community and a mentor. You need the community to learn from through example and conversation and you need a mentor who can guide you individually.
Good luck.
How to convince a user to fill out a survey
I am working on a project that provides a service (landscaping) to members of the community. When the work for that client is finished we always encourage the client to go to our website to fill out a survey to review the wor…
Why is embedded help not popular?
I’m wondering why modern help systems are more passive than active? For example, each good guide through something look like this:
So why we don’t see this directly on website (service provider), but have to search for an…
UI/UX Design Patterns: What are good examples of registration flows that require a lot of info but manage to make it a painless experience?
When Twitter redesigned their sign up process with the goal of increasing user engagement, they actually added a screen / step. But, that actually helped them and they said the experienced a 29% increase in growth. It’s articulated very well in this article: http://www.lukew.com/ff/e
The key is to break up the sign up / process into logical steps for the user, keeping in mind that if you can show the user the result of their action, then they’re much more likely to keep going. People love feedback – show it to them.
What are the little arrows called that hide additional details?
In UI design, sometimes settings are hidden behind a little arrow or “+” symbol. When the user clicks on it, the item expands to show additional details.
Does this UI pattern have a name? Other than “little arrow”?
For ex…
How to make selecting a timezone more user-friendly?
The list of time zones is rather long, lots of duplication, and not very friendly to programmers let alone end-users.
Is there a way to shorten the list to something friendlier and sufficient for 80%+ of users? But then how shall one decide which are the popular Tz?
The list in Windows seems pretty good, but I’m not sure if that’s a good list to model after. It is interesting because DST is optional, is that why the list can be that short? Someone worked out the tz equivalents here.
I’m in Pacific Daylight Time (PDT). JS’s getTimezoneOffset() returns 420 ==> offset -7. If I use the time zones list above, how would one tell its US/Pacific (-8)?
Furthermore, what are the popular names for time zones? US/Pacific or Canada/Pacific sure sounds friendlier then America/Los_Angeles or America/Vancouver.
Lastly, how are the 2 timezones above different? Can they be safely grouped together and just use America/Los_Angeles in the app? How shall one group time zones together?
Should I manually hyperlink phone numbers using "tel:" on my websites?
In code, you have the ability to make a phone number on a website into a link by prepending the phone number in the href with a “tel:”
So, for example, you can create a link to 800-867-5309 with the following:
<a href=”t…
Should I manually hyperlink phone numbers using "tel:" on my websites?
In code, you have the ability to make a phone number on a website into a link by prepending the phone number in the href with a “tel:”
So, for example, you can create a link to 800-867-5309 with the following:
<a href=”t…
How to find examples of "mobile (usecases, user-stories, flowcharts, etc)"
My experience has been that paper prototypes are the fastest way to get mobile apps built.
That said, I’m interested in getting more exposure to the thought process other UX professionals went through at a high-level to defi…
How to deal with graphic designers who thinks UX is boring
Working as a interaction designer together with graphic designers (or marketing people in general) I sometimes get the strong feeling that we sound too boring when we try to implement usability best practices.
Like: – Great…