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A really great story about how one person attempts to make a better bus stop sign.
Most bus stop signs tell you which buses are coming, but few reveal the stops it will make along the way. How can we change that and improve the bus-navigating experience? Uytae Lee shares his idea for a solution in the latest episode of Stories About Here.
Excellent examples of mobile friendly data tables.
The ingredients of a successful data table UI
Interesting stat to the start the article: “According to Oberlo, approximately 71% of consumers even prefer to use voice searches over typing, so it goes without saying that people want to use their voices to complete actions. ”
Tools such as Figma and Invision can easily simulate the functions of a “clickable” user interface but are incapable of interactions by voice. Different prototyping tools are needed that allow users to actually speak to and hear audio feedback from an application. In this article, UX design researcher Jeff Villa shares his experiences and tips for creating a voice prototype using a tool called Voiceflow.
Why it is time to move beyond just designing for humans.
Source: The case for using non-human personas in design | by Martin Tomitsch | Feb, 2022 | UX Collective
An interesting take on whether designers should build web experiences like TikTok or Instagram. Jakob is awesome.
People spend most of their time between a handful of products right now.
Source: Did TikTok make Jakob’s Law obsolete? | by Michal Malewicz | Jan, 2022 | UX Collective
Finally, someone has said it. True UX doesn’t always have to be pretty, it just needs to work well. A must read article.
Why designers have ditched the art persona and hijacked the UX industry.
Source: Design is not art, and UX is not design | by Michael Buckley | Nov, 2021 | UX Collective
….and what we can expect for the next decade in design.
Source: Why minimalism never goes out of style | by Kelsey O’Connor | Sep, 2021 | UX Collective
Very well written and I can see this resource being used as a launch pad for any UX related project. Find a task, quickly see the pros/cons, caveats AND jump right to the methods to do them effectively and efficiently.
A set of challenges to practice UX design skills.
Source: UX Design Challenges | UX Tools
Loving the problem is critical because your technology will age and become obsolete. If you love the problem, you will happily change how you solve that problem to do it better. If you love the technology, you will care more about your method than the result, putting you out of alignment with your customers.
Do you know what the geospatial product trap is? It’s when we fall in love with the technology, not the problem.
Source: The Geospatial Product Trap | Sparkgeo
You can definitely see it in people when they talk about a certain type of technology. It’s like they have blinders on and forget about whether or not the solution has the budget, skills/knowledge, resources and capacity to maintain it. It sort of reminds me how developed nations used to bring solutions to developing nations in the past – it just falls apart after they leave.
Inconsistent product functionality, wildly differing UI components, and conflicting terminology – here are three steps to avoid design debt.
Source: Tackling complex design debt: a three-step framework | Inside Intercom