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How to Create an Intuitive Design. “The main thing in our design is that we have to make things intuitively obvious,” the founder and former CEO of Apple, Steve Jobs, explained. We can easily agree that design should be intuitive.
What Science Can Teach You about Designing Great Graphical User Interface Animations. Adding animations to your GUIs can make them easier to understand & highly engaging. Here are 3 principles of motion design you must master to create realistic animations that people can relate with.
How to manage the users’ expectations when designing smart products. Users often ascribe intelligence and social skills to smart products that adapt to their behavior or the context. This means you must be clear in communicating what your product can and cannot do.
How to Design Voice User Interfaces. Learn what users expect from voice communication and get practical guidelines for how to design great voice user interfaces. Become part of the growing industry!
Natural User Interfaces – What does it mean & how to design user interfaces that feel naturaly. User interfaces that you interact with using modalities such as touch, gestures or voice are often referred to as Natural User Interfaces (NUI).
The Basic Principles of Effectuation – How to Use What You Already Have to Become More Innovative.
Three Ideation Methods to Enhance Your Innovative Thinking. Three distinct methods allow you to challenge your usual way of thinking: Re-Expression, Revolution, and Random Links. You can use these when you need to come up with new and innovative ideas.
User Research: What It Is and Why You Should Do It. Dive into what user research actually is, and get an overview of how you can use user research in your design process by exploring the 3 most common reasons.
How to Involve Stakeholders in Your User Research. When you plan a user research project, involving your stakeholders is vital. They can provide you with information about the project and ensure that you don’t waste time doing a duplicate study.
Best Practices for Qualitative User Research. Investigate the differences between qualitative and quantitative research and learn what the best practices are when carrying out qualitative user research.
Conducting Ethical User Research. For the sake of respecting moral conventions and keeping your reputation intact, make sure you always consider the ethics of your user research project.
The Basics of Recruiting Participants for User Research. Investigate the considerations you should make when deciding what type of research participants you want to involve in your next round of usability testing.
Workshops to Establish Empathy and Understanding from User Research Results. User research is most effective when you share the insights. Through interactive workshops, you can immerse decision-makers into your user's context and help them empathize with your users.
Pros and Cons of Conducting User Interviews. Interviews can give you an in-depth understanding of the users’ values, perceptions, and experiences. Here's everything you need to know about this method and how it can help you empathize with users.
How to Prepare for a User Interview and Ask the Right Questions. Getting great interview results requires careful preparation. You need to be clear about the purpose of your research, decide whom to recruit, do all the practical preparations, and more.
How to Moderate User Interviews. Carrying out user interviews can be chaotic! You must handle a lot of things at once to ensure that your participants are comfortable and that you get valid results.
How to Do a Thematic Analysis of User Interviews. Learn how to go from information chaos, to patterns and themes that represent the most interesting aspects of your data. Ensure your users can gain insight.
Workshops to Establish Empathy and Understanding from User Research Results. Honestly, how much do you enjoy reading research reports? And how engaging do you find them?
Stage 1 in the Design Thinking Process: Empathise with Your Users. The first stage of the Design Thinking process involves developing a sense of empathy towards your users. Learn how to incorporate it into your design work.
How to Visualize Your Qualitative User Research Results for Maximum Impact. Information visualization is a powerful technique to communicate the results from qualitative user research to your fellow designers or the client. There are three types of visualizations you could us
3 Reasons Why Accessible Design Is Good for All. Explore a few examples from the history of designing for accessibility which illustrate why accessibility is great for both your users and your business.
10 Principles of Accessibility. Do you want to get serious about accessibility? Learn about the 10 principles you can use to get started creating great accessible websites and interfaces.
How to Handle Designer Bias When Designing for Accessibility. When designing for accessibility, be aware of the blind spots created by your biases. The most important bias is the visual bias – it’s difficult to understand what interaction a visual layout will cr
What’s the point of doing UX?.
How to Empower UX teams to Boost Innovation and ROI.
5 Proven Tactics for Evangelizing UX. Great UX is about more than designing beautiful and usable products, services and interfaces.
How to Create Design Plans for Virtual and Augmented Reality Experiences. Whenever you design something new – be it an interface, service or a product– you should start with a plan for what you want the user’s experience to be like. Having a clear goal for what you want the
Less is (Also) More in Virtual and Augmented Reality Design.
How to Design Gesture Interactions for Virtual and Augmented Reality. In virtual and augmented reality, gestures are also a very natural way to interact with digital artifacts and menus/ gestures are a complex combination of physical laws and cultural conventions,
How to Use Voice Interaction in Augmented Reality. Using voice interaction with augmented reality can really benefit the user by making the interaction fast and effortless, but it also has limitations; so, make sure you use it where it’s most appropri