Thoughts on listening to users
What if I told you about someone who is designing their user experience to actively prey on the worst compulsions of their users, leaving them terrified or disturbed, all while receiving universal praise and success for this masterful manipulation?
Here’s a rundown of privileged advice from finance experts we gleaned while attending a CrowdPitch event in our local community.
There are about as many ways to look at paintings as there are paintings to look at. But how often does a painting look back? Beyond the eyes of a portrait, have you ever felt like a painting was strangely aware of your presence?
Recently, we spent some time speaking with Gajan Retnasaba, the head of conversion at Spiralyze. Gajan told us how he’s seen the “curse of knowledge” affect design projects before – and how his team works consciously to avoid it.
The holiday shopping season has begun, and as we all scramble to buy gifts for our loved ones, we decided it would be worthwhile to round up some of the e-commerce sites with the best UX.
While the UX problems of voting in the U.S. ultimately demand legislative fixes, we have been delighted to see how some U.S. companies and nonprofits have stepped up to remedy these issues just in time for this year’s midterms.
UX principles applied in the digital world can be just as effective in the real world, and the U.S. voting system—from registration to the polls—is in desperate need of a UX makeover.
While Dr. Seuss may have primarily intended to provide life lessons through his picture books, his rhyme-infused wisdom perfectly applies to UX.
Knowledge of psychological principles can help us design better user experiences – ones that are easier for people to use and understand, that impart positive feelings to users, and that nudge them towards the right pathways or actions.
Happy New Year! As we roll into 2018, many of us are refreshing and reevaluating some of the personal goals that we set and perhaps struggled to keep last year. What kind of resolutions can we make as User Experience practitioners?
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