Getting (Dis)Connected: Shallow Interaction Design For Deeper Human Experiences
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Our objects are becoming increasingly connected. My watch is connected to my phone, which is connected to the speaker in my living room, which I can also connect (or not) to the speaker in my bedroom. When I go out to dinner with friends, we have to make a concerted effort to keep our handheld and wearable devices silenced or otherwise placed “in the background” of our social experience, so that we can focus on each other.
As our artifacts and everything around us become more connected, we run the risk as humans of becoming increasingly disconnected from each other — not in a tragic, dystopian kind of way per se, but in a real way that we need to take into consideration when designing for these experiences.
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Expanding design principles and practices to inclusive design from accessibility
Accessibility as a design goal worked well in the past when specific design strategies and practices were implemented to cater for people with special access needs to the content or materials on websites. These days, with the…
Do users finds the android widgets and iOS "today" widgets usable?
I wish to do little survey regarding the usage of mobile widgets.
What % usage of widgets usage in Android/ iOS (“today widget”)?
What type of users are using mobile widgets? (e.g. only power users)
For which tasks widgets a…
Do users finds the android widgets and iOS "today" widgets usable?
I wish to do little survey regarding the usage of mobile widgets.
What % usage of widgets usage in Android/ iOS (“today widget”)?
What type of users are using mobile widgets? (e.g. only power users)
For which tasks widgets a…
Infinite Scrolling, Pagination Or “Load More” Buttons? Usability Findings In eCommerce
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What is the best UX pattern to display products on an e-commerce website: pagination, a “Load more” button or infinite scrolling? At Baymard Institute, we’ve conducted several year-long large-scale usability studies of more than 50+ leading e-commerce websites. We tested (among other things) these three design patterns for loading products, both on desktop and mobile.
Pagination is still the most popular way to load new items on a website because it ships by default in almost every single e-commerce platform. However, our usability test sessions found “Load more” buttons combined with lazy-loading to be a superior implementation, resulting in a more seamless user experience. We found that infinite scrolling can be downright harmful to usability — in particular, for search results and on mobile. However, it’s not black and white, because the performance of each method varies according to the context of the page.
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Infinite scrolling within a tabbed listview on Android
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Gamification for knowledge management database or not?
I wonder if gamification will produce a lot of content only for the purpose of creating content and playing, receiving badges etc.
You’re all experts for that question, since you are using stack exchange. 😉
We have a very …
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I’d like to put the MV(UX) case on the table here and get your insights about how projects that demand a short, viable, and functional iteration of the UX process would go for NEW projects (Keyword here is “NEW”) and how man…
Social Icons and Download Badges in mailer header?
Im currently doing a mailer design.
I’ve placed the social icons in the header, next to the company logo.
Underneath the social links I have put download badges, before the main content of the mailer.
Some people said tha…
Right-click menu vs. shortcut menu
Which is the industry standard for technical communication when referring to the menu that opens when a user right-clicks an item on a screen? Is it called the ‘right-click menu’ or the ‘shortcut menu’?
I’m trying to establi…