Reducing Cognitive Overload For A Better User Experience
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The best user experience is the one the user doesn’t notice. It appears smooth and simple on the surface, but hundreds of crucial design decisions have been made to guide, entertain and prevent trouble. If the user experience design does what it’s supposed to do, the user won’t notice any of the work that went into it.
The less users have to think about the interface or design, the more they can focus on accomplishing their goal on your website. Your job as a designer is to give them a straight path to their goal by clearing out the obstacles beforehand.
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Usage of emojis as compared to stickers
The rise and uptake of IM applications has created some interesting ways for users to communicate with each other, with the emergence/popularity of emojis (which could be said to be an evolution of the emoticons) and stickers being the two…
Complex channel based navigation modal
The application I am re-designing has a channel management modal for managing its customers. The admin hierarchy is as follows:
My Company Admins
Channel Admins
Resellers Admins
Customer Admins
End Users
Each Admin can access and man…
Terminology: Long press or Touch & hold?
I’ve seen both versions used in Android. What do you think is the best term to use? I’ve also heard people to use “Long click”, “Long touch” & “Long tap” but I personally don’t like any of those. It would be nice to finally get some st…
Five Rules Of App Localization In China: Money, Dating And App Store
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I recently sat down with Rock Zhang, a Chinese mobile entrepreneur. Rock is my classmate from business school, and we have both worked in the mobile industry for a while. In an age when the best marketing is good product management, Rock knows how to make millions of Chinese users fall in love with an app. I asked him to share his thoughts on app localization.
For me, China has always been a hard market to crack. I’ve marketed several mobile apps in European and US markets, and my apps have been featured many times in the App Stores in Russia, Israel, Spain, Germany and the US. But in China, our growth was stalling, and I don’t think we ever got a request for promotional artwork to be featured in the App Store. Truth be told, my “Asian expansion strategy” usually boiled down to hiring freelance translators through Elance to help me localize App Store pages in Chinese, Korean and Japanese.
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How can I improve add entry tab?
I’m making a UX/UI for Telenor software that we are developing as summer project. How to do the navigation/controls for this Software style:
I’m stuck on how best to do the Add Entry for this tab.
The Problem is: We are using scroll pane…
User Memory Design: How To Design For Experiences That Last
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The two charts pictured below changed the way I think about thinking. Reproduced from a classic 1996 psychology study, the story behind these charts is a vivid illustration that the way we humans feel in the moment as we experience the world can be very different from how we feel when we think back on those experiences later.
Understanding the difference between experience and memory — and the ways they are related — can make us more sophisticated experience designers. In this piece, I’m going to provide some tips for designing for experiences that leave a lasting positive impression. But first, I need to explain the following two charts.
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User Memory Design: How To Design For Experiences That Last
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The two charts pictured below changed the way I think about thinking. Reproduced from a classic 1996 psychology study, the story behind these charts is a vivid illustration that the way we humans feel in the moment as we experience the world can be very different from how we feel when we think back on those experiences later.
Understanding the difference between experience and memory — and the ways they are related — can make us more sophisticated experience designers. In this piece, I’m going to provide some tips for designing for experiences that leave a lasting positive impression. But first, I need to explain the following two charts.
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Is it always bad to force users to click to show them your products?
Let me explain. Suppose you have a a lot of products (they might be physical goodies or not – like courses). Here you have some options to display your products:
You can create a very long list in your home page to display all your prod…
Should an open accordion section be hidden when the user clicks on another section?
I’m designing for an enterprise-level software. The software is a repository for different departments to store their files. The content types are Dashboard and Reports but inherently both of them are PDF files. (I know this is confusing, …