“Technologists have a responsibility to help people form accurate mental models of changing technologies.” – Bowles, Cennydd (2018). Future Ethics (p. 113). NowNext Press.
15/02/2021
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Category Archives: User experience/UX
04/02/2021
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What to pay user research participants?
A question which comes up a lot: What should we pay for research incentives these days? This calculator might help to get an idea: https://ethn.io/incentives/calculator Made a new research incentive calculator based on the conceptual framework of Run-DMC and data … Continue reading
02/02/2021
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Storytelling is a design tool
Tonight I attended a panel discussion about Storytelling for User Experience with Whitney Quesenbery, Andrew Merryweather, Karina Van Schaardenburg and Julia Goga-Cooke (moderation) and it was great – so here are a few quick notes/quotes from it I’d love to … Continue reading
13/12/2020
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Lorrie Cranor: The (lacking) usability of privacy interfaces.
Watch Lorrie Cranors very interesting keynote about designing useful and usable privacy interfaces. She talks in depth about the use of icons related to privacy settings and what to consider. This keynote was held at the on the annual conference … Continue reading
29/04/2020
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Accessibility Maze
This is a great resource for learning some basic accessibility principles. “For people who do not experience barriers, it can be difficult to empathize with the challenges that people with disabilities often face when navigating the Web. The Accessibility Maze … Continue reading
28/04/2020
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The Tarots Cards of Tech
“The Tarot Cards of tech are a set of provocations designed to help creators more fully consider the impact of technology” – Love it. http://tarotcardsoftech.artefactgroup.com/ via Molly
08/11/2019
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Presenting design
'The fidelity of the presentation should match the fidelity of the thinking' – Bill Buxton. Even if your team has a fancy design system & prototyping kit, use this guide when thinking about what kind of UI to bring into … Continue reading
23/07/2019
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Content = UX
Content is UX. Data is UX. If you have badly structured data, trying to correct it in the UI will lead to bad UX. — Pavel A. Samsonov (@PavelASamsonov) March 25, 2019
09/07/2019
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Security and UX: Don’t blame the users
A very good read by Albrecht Schmidt (LMU Munich) about security and UX >> Don’t Blame the User: Toward Means for Usable and Practical Authentication “[…]When the user comes to use a service for the first time, many companies require … Continue reading
18/06/2019
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Accessible means usable
“Often designers use color as a method to identify if a form control is required. When a user moves into the form field or moves out of the form field, the form control changes to a red color. This method … Continue reading
10/06/2019
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UX Camp Europe 2019 Session: Friend or foe? Lessons learned from human-to-human interaction
After UX Camp Europe Berlin being around for 10 years now (Happy Birthday!), I finally made it this year and got a ticket. I always wanted to go there and looked jealously at Berlin when I was still living in … Continue reading
07/06/2019
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Computer rage
30/05/2019
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Alan Cooper at interaction18
Worth watching. “We need to stand up, and stand together. Not in opposition but as a light shining in a dark room. Because if we don’t, we stand to lose everything. We need to harness our technology for good and … Continue reading
24/04/2019
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Collaborative remote sketching workshops – Lessons from the field:
27/03/2019
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Does tech make everything more easy?
Unlocking your €100,000 car is now easier than ever pic.twitter.com/3hSs9pswoO — Alex+ 📉 (@somospostpc) March 26, 2019
23/03/2019
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The difference between demographic and personas
The difference between demographic and personas – love this slide, courtesy of @ThisisZone ux design team pic.twitter.com/EQpdIA4yfV — Jon Davie (@jondavie) August 18, 2015
03/03/2019
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Listen to your users frustrations
“Listening to user frustrations is the product designer’s equivalent of asking a patient where it hurts.” Goodwin, Kim. Designing for the Digital Age. Wiley, 2009.
16/02/2019
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About “the user(s)”
When you talk of „the user(s)“ in the middle of some product development – who are you actually thinking of?
30/01/2019
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Plato’s cave allegory and experience design.
What does Plato’s cave allegory have in common with human centered design ? It demonstrates the effects of narrow and non-holistic thinking, a phenomenon we can still observe in many organizations – where it sometimes seems that one department doesn’t … Continue reading
15/01/2019
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About “good” design
“Successful products meet user goals first […] The essence of good interaction design is devising interactions that achieve the goals of the business or service and their partners without violating the goals of the user” Cooper, A., Reimann, R., Cronin, … Continue reading