Beyond Usability: 3 User Experiences Reshaping Their Industries
Beyond Usability 3 User Experiences Reshaping Their Industries
Beyond Usability: 3 User Experiences Reshaping Their Industries
admin
We live in a world of new services. We are eating via Seamless or Blue Apron, streaming music on Spotify through Alexa, calling cars on Uber and Lyft. We Airbnb our homes; Netflix invades our TVs as we swipe on Tinder.
All these services all have several things in common:
Usefulness : they answer a previously unmet user need.
Usability : their digital UIs are easy to use.
Overall user experience : the quality of these user experiences extends far beyond the traditional “UX” touchpoints of simply a website and mobile app. (Thus, when I say ‘user experience’ in this article, I am referring to the whole experience — not...
For mobile apps, it's usually a good idea to have an "application home" that users can return to as a safe base after exploring the apps various areas. This is particularly important for content-rich apps, such as magazines or newspapers. Used this way, the "home" button serves as a generic
That mainstream corporate websites make blatant usability mistakes is understandable because most members of their teams aren't grounded in graduate degrees in human-computer interaction. (That's why I have recently added foundational courses, such as The Human Mind, to my usability conference
Solving a big problem is more difficult than solving a small problem. However, if your app does only one thing, it had better to it really, really well. So, the criteria for polish are stricter for small applications than for enterprise applications. With thousands of screens in some applications
4 Ways to Enter the Blockchain Industry
The Internet combined with the decentralized framework of Blockchain now allows anyone in the world to start a business. Anyone — anywhere — will be able to execute transactions securely. Before the Internet, this kind of powerful encryption was inaccessible to many small business
Robotics and Big Data are Transforming Nursing: 4 Key Insights
In healthcare, the robot’s role is to take over tedious, time-consuming, and dangerous or dirty jobs for nurses. Very few nurses dream of sanitizing equipment or dispensing medication when they enter nursing school. They want to be working directly with patients, healing the sick and providing
9 Blockchains Transforming the Way We Pay, Play, and Work
Look past digital currencies’ nosebleed pricing volatility, and you’ll discover a robust, decentralized, secure database. Brands and technologists are quickly figuring out how to put this powerful ledger to good use. Here are several real-world examples that demonstrate cryptos’
The Impact of Interaction Design on Brand Perception
Note: Tolstrup and Heyer use slightly different terminology to describe the interactivity attributes. A demonstration video of the interactive attributes used in Tolstrup and Heyer’s study is currently available from the ACM Digital Library under the tab ‘Source Materials’ (linked as
beyond usability: 3 user experiences reshaping their industries
Contextual Menus: Delivering Relevant Tools for Tasks
Though there are many ways to trigger and present contextual menus, at their core, these UI elements aim to provide users with the most important commands and relevant tools they need to complete tasks easily within their given context. For more on designing effective contextual menus, take our
Why User Interviews Fail
Few teams record their interviews, and even fewer teams transcribe the sessions. If you interview a lot of people, it’s worth recording them. Even a good notetaker can miss things, as it’s virtually impossible to capture everything that was said verbatim. Most participants have no problem with
UX Guidelines for Ecommerce Homepages, Category Pages, and Product Listing Pages
This latest round of research found that, compared to the past, fewer sites provide traditional category pages as interim pages before presenting individual products. In an effort to reduce the number of pages that users must click through, many sites now have replaced or augmented category-landing
Design Thinking 101
This is the most important part of design thinking, but it is the one most often forgotten. As Don Norman preaches, “we need more design doing.” Design thinking does not free you from the actual design doing. It’s not magic. Milton Glaser’s words resonate: “There’s no such thing as a
UX Research Cheat Sheet
User-experience research methods are great at producing data and insights, while ongoing activities help get the right things done. Alongside R&D, ongoing UX activities can make everyone’s efforts more effective and valuable. At every stage in the design process, different UX methods can keep
Gutenberg—Believe in the Beauty of Your Dreams
With regards to Genesis, the good news is that it has no substantial backwards-compatibility issues with Gutenberg. The main focus of updates to the StudioPress themes are focused on adding styles for the new Gutenberg blocks. However, what we’re most excited about are the brand new features we
beyond usability: 3 user experiences reshaping their industries
WP Engine Named A Best Place to Work in Technology for 2019 .
When it comes to facilitating a truly enjoyable and productive workplace, it takes more than just the promise of perks and ping pong. Employees want their workplaces to reflect what they value and expect out of the company they work for: trustworthiness, morality, and the opportunity to grow both in
At SXSW, WP Engine CEO Heather Brunner Underscores Importance of Altruism in a Growing City
Keeping that energy alive, they all agreed, was a challenge the city will have to contend with, especially as more people arrive and the economy continues to grow. There was also wide agreement that the best way to preserve Austin’s special qualities was to continue fostering the welcoming spirit
Preventing User Errors: Avoiding Conscious Mistakes
Another primary principle of preventing users from making errors is to acknowledge that they will make mistakes and slips from time to time, and provide a safety net that makes these errors less costly. Nearly everyone has experienced the utterly horrifying moment of realizing that you just
Narrative Biases: When Storytelling HURTS User Experience
When asked about a general case (what’s a more common level of educational achievement), we naturally consider the prevalence, or base rate, of educational achievement among the entire population. But in the presence of a specific detail (such as the act of reading the New York Times), we often
The Impact of Interaction Design on Brand Perception
Tolstrup and Heyer’s study used extremely simplified tasks and prototypes. They also used a homogeneous and potentially unique sample as participants — their own personal and professional acquaintances, all 30 to 40 years old. For these reasons, you should expect some differences in how these
6 Emerging Cyber Threats to Lookout for in 2019
2018 showed us an accelerated growth in cyber threat activities. Data breaches, attacks using malicious software and insider threats were among the most familiar forms of attack. Many well-known organizations suffered from these cybersecurity disasters and compromised data of millions of users
Data Science Careers: From Fragmentation to Necessity
Over the past decade — the concept of being a data scientist has become a “normal” occupation title. It is no longer an unusual way to phrase the job description in data analytics. Now this to the industry standard term for a swath of data careers. Data Science. Like any career
The Biggest Hacking Risk? Your Employees
Consider something as seemingly innocuous as your printers. These can be easily hijacked and sent print jobs, such as when a hacker named “Weev” was able to access public computers nationwide and print anti-Semitic literature. Kevin Pickhardt, CEO of enterprise print solutions provider Pharos
Small Business Marketing Strategies that Will Work for You
Make all of your business accounts social media websites — and work them. Social media attracts more leads than retail marketing. Everyone uses Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter to search for online shopping stores and coupon codes. If your business has no visibility on social media channels
beyond usability: 3 user experiences reshaping their industries
How Self-Service Technology Can Boost Startup Growth
For every company or brand, the need to have a customer self-service portal is essential. Now that the whole world is going digital, you’ll want to attend to your customers more digitally. Self-service gives customers more confidence in what you offer. A perfect example is the new DSTV Eazy Self
CSS conversion of my Radio weblog
I’ve done a re-design of my Radio weblog, using CSS. Look ma, no tables! Yes, it’s now a tableless design. I’m doing my bit for the web standards cause, although I haven’t yet achieved 100% XHTML validation. For my re-design I used a CSS Zen Garden design by Michael Landis
Beyond Usability: 3 User Experiences Reshaping Their Industries | Comparison Tables for Products, Services, and Features
Comparison Tables for Products, Services, and Features
With this kind of comparison table implementation, you’ll be able to control how the information is displayed on the page. For example, you can change the copy to fit the space constraints of one cell. Note, however, that this implementation is not as easily scalable as dynamic comparison tables
Top 10 Enduring Web-Design Mistakes
Since 1996, we have been compiling lists of the top 10 mistakes in web design. This year, we completed a large-scale usability study with 215 participants in the United States and United Kingdom to see what today’s web-design mistakes are. After analyzing results across 43 sites that ranged from
Usability Insights From Sun Microsystem's 1997 Web Design
Sun's web site went live in January 1994 when there were only 700 other sites on the Web. Our first site ran on a "liberated" workstation and was pretty small. Now, only four years later, the Web has about 2,500 times as many sites, Sun's own site has grown to 22,000 pages, and we are on our third
