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How to Improve Your UX Designs with Task Analysis
One of the most important steps in the design thinking or human-centered design (HCD) methodology is to define the users
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UX Designer Job Descriptions: The Comprehensive Guide
A UX designer creates and optimizes the overall human experience when interacting with digital products, systems, or ser
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No-UI: How to Build Transparent Interaction
Here, we will explore and teach you about the incredible user experience opportunities which you can take advantage of w
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How to Create a Perspective Grid
When you create a journey map, it can be a challenge to combine research data and the ideas of people in your organizati
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Why User Experience?
Abraham Maslow's hierarchy of needs asserts that when we fulfill unconscious goals such as food, shelter and approval, w
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Giving Your Users Freedom with Editable Input Fields
When you want to purchase something on the internet, no matter what it is, or which e-commerce service you use, you don’
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Work in Games
Very few people look forward to work. If you weren’t working, you could be doing something fun. Yet, work isn’t the oppo
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The Nature of Experience
The four threads of experience and six processes of sense-making outlined by McCarthy and Wright in their "Technology as
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Design for Optimal Experience
The range of our emotions and feelings is very broad, which begs the question, when do we perform at our best? We know t
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Human Error
Have you ever been confounded by inexplicable error messages? Designers and developers often overlook error handling and
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Emotion in the Home
Technology is rapidly advancing and alongside comes a new way of understanding and approaching emotion in our homes. Fro
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Monitoring Player Motivation for Gamification
One of the big questions facing us as gamification designers is, “When will your player get bored of your gamification p
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10 Reasons To Become A UX Designer
Are you intrigued by UX (User Experience) design? Is it something you’ve simply read about, dabbled with, or considered
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Top 10 UI Trends Every Designer Should Know
People get easily bored with trends, and every few years, the pendulum swings from one way to another. We have all seen
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5 Ways to Incorporate Affordances in User Interfaces
Affordances define what people can do with your product. Here, we look at the different areas where you can incorporate
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