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UX Magazine sets out to explore, promote & discuss the multiple facets of user experience one article at a time. It is a collaborative publication by writers, technologists, designers, marketeers & business gurus from around the world.
UX Magazine
4y ago
August 12, 2020
I interview many people and often apologise before I ask the clichéd question of, “How do you define Service Design, and how do you define UX Design — what is it that makes them different?”
UX Design (Experience Design), fuelled by the rise of digital, has become more established these days with some great work being done the field. It has naturally been expanding into the realms of ‘Service Design’*, but I’ve noticed that what constitutes people’s understanding of Service Design, and a Service Designer, appears to misalign with what I believe the criteria and components ..read more
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4y ago
August 10, 2020
People, and the frameworks we use for understanding people, are at the heart of effective strategy and design work.
We’ve previously explored how there is no average person, which makes it challenging to use personas and archetypes to qualify an audience or user.
Why is it so difficult to group people together?
Because driving our inherent complexity is the intersectionality and fluidity of who we are.
People are complex & fluid
Often when designers or strategists talk about people or users, there’s a tendency to assume that people fit into neat, one-si ..read more
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4y ago
August 6, 2020
We live in an environment where interfaces are everywhere. For most of us, phones, watches, tablets, laptops, kiosks, payment systems, and televisions are all huge parts of our daily lives. And these are all predominantly visual interfaces only. Voice interfaces like Alexa, Siri and Cortana are also starting to be less of a novelty and more of a normal part of our lives. There are physical interfaces we interact with, and we are even starting to see sensory devices emerging. For instance, there already exist alarm clocks that allow you to wake up to the smell of fresh coffee, a ..read more
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4y ago
August 4, 2020
Whenever people ask me what I do, and I say I’m a designer, I dread the difficult, complex narrative, I know I’m going to have to spool, to answer that inevitable, subsequent question, “What sort of design do you do?” This is commonly accompanied by (trying to helpful) suggestions of fashion, interior etc.? I’ve truncated my response these days to “strategic and digital stuff”, which of course does little justice to design’s latest exciting incarnation.
What I’m talking about, is that I manage and do more strategic work through design thinking*, human centred innovat ..read more
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4y ago
August 3, 2020
UX Writing is the practice of crafting texts that help users interact with digital products more conveniently.
UX writers are people who write for better user experience, and it is their job to present information that would allow the user to navigate the product successfully. They also ensure that the user can absorb as much information as possible. UX Writing includes interface copywriting such as labels, menu, buttons, terms, and conditions, error message, as well as micro-copies like additional details or instructions.
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By Chanchal Agrawal ..read more
UX Magazine
4y ago
July 31, 2020
Actors and directors make fantastic UX Designers/Writers. From storytelling to empathy to understanding human nature, the world of UX shares many traits with the world of theater.
It’s a good question, so let’s check out some of the skills critical to both.
Cast photo: “As You Like It”.
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By Toby Trachtman ..read more
UX Magazine
4y ago
July 29, 2020
How many times do you close a pop-up without knowing what are you clicking and then you see you did something you don’t want to for clicking or tapping faster? There is a kind of user that never reads and others that of course reads it all. We need to be prepared to this both users so this could help them to detect if is something that has to pay attention.
The first thing that every human being who walks through the street surrounding by traffic is this basic colour theory: Red is bad (you cannot pass), Orange is close to bad (you must stop and not run!) and Green is ..read more
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4y ago
July 29, 2020
The Covid-19 pandemic has put the whole world in a tizzy. People are grappling with the new normal and wishing they could go back to how things were. It is time we looked at our situation as a Design Thinking challenge. We have to adopt a new mindset that looks at various possibilities to ease the challenges we face in our personal lives and on the business front.
Have you noticed how the tea kettle is designed? Why is it designed differently from other pots that hold liquids like water? It is because, it holds ‘boiling’ hot liquid, which needs to retain that temperature, till ..read more
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4y ago
July 28, 2020
The pros and cons of the persona
Getting through the user research phase of a design project can seem daunting, but in reality it’s just the beginning. When you and your team get to reviewing and synthesizing your research, you’re getting ever closer to bringing your concept to life. Usually, one of the first steps post-research is to create personas.
Personas give you and your team an overview of a user or a group of users. They also outline high-level assumptions about your user’s preferences and their behaviour patterns.
An example of a completed proto-persona highlighting ..read more
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4y ago
July 27, 2020
We hear a lot about Design Thinking, Strategic Design and Service Design. I’m not going to go into the potential danger that this democratisation of design is bringing to the wider Design industry — I cover it in a couple of my other blogs ‘Design thinking isn’t design, it’s design thinking’ and ‘Dangerous times in Design’.
The (difficult) question I’m going to ask here is;
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By Anish Joshi ..read more