Beyond Usability: 3 User Experiences Reshaping Their Industries
Beyond Usability 3 User Experiences Reshaping Their Industries
Beyond Usability: 3 User Experiences Reshaping Their Industries
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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...
If you follow the design guidelines in this article, users will know how to use your tabs without further exploration or error-prone guessing. This again means that they can devote all their time and brainpower to understanding the content and features that you’re making available under these
Designers often have many good ideas for things that can be provided to users, from ideation, feature requests, and other sources. It’s tempting to throw all these options into the system and rely on customization or personalization for pruning the screens into a manageable level of complexity
Because the objects of interest and the potential actions in the system are visually represented, users can use recognition instead of recall to see what they could do and select an operation most likely to fulfill their goal. They don’t have to learn and remember complex syntax. Thus, although
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The Four Dimensions of Tone of Voice
Decide what combination of dimensions makes sense best for your company and think about strategies to implement this tone of voice. When you’re defining your tone for a whole site or a specific piece of content, start with these four high-level dimensions first. For example, first decide if a
Beyond Usability: 3 User Experiences Reshaping Their Industries
Take Uber for example. While the experience is hugely popular and generally pain free, there is room for enhancement — especially for large groups travelling together. Currently, a group must problem-solve in order to figure out how many “ubers” to call and and how many passengers can fit in
The Anatomy of a List Entry
Together, the placement and visual treatment of information create a visual path that leads the eye through the collection of attributes in the order of their importance, making it efficient and easy to scan each list entry. Many users may only need to do a shallow scan of the most important and
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People continue to value plain, easy-to-understand language in About Us sections. They appreciate copy that makes them feel as though they are having an intentional and mutually beneficial conversation with a human at the company. Our participants liked to see photos of real employees and products
The User Experience of Public Bathrooms
Inclusion and accessibility are not always considered, especially when having male-only and female-only restrooms. But even for gender-specific restrooms, the signage to determine who should enter can be difficult to understand. Icons without labels are probably the worst offender. Using creative
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Dropdowns: Design Guidelines
A while back, as part of a presentation on web-usability methods, we ran a small user test for the audience. When completing a registration page, our test participant had to enter her address on a form with a text field for the name of the street but a dropdown menu for the type of street (Avenue
Storyboards Help Visualize UX Ideas
Use sketches to quickly draw a sequence or communicate a scene to your team during a brainstorming meeting. In such ideation meetings, you can even create storyboards collaboratively with sticky notes, to get each team member’s perspective. Start by having a discussion of the timeline and steps
Personas vs. Jobs-to-Be-Done
The Jobs-to-Be-Done framework is a representations of user needs born out of qualitative user research, such as field studies, interviews, and discount usability testing. It involves identifying for which goals customers “hire” your product (and, ideally, also finding out if there are
In an Experiential-Obsessed Marketplace, Surkus Uses Tech to Stand Out
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Five Best Open-Source Antivirus’ for Carefree Cyber-Threat Protection
You can detect a lot of different types of malicious software by using open source antivirus products. Experienced developers in both fields will tell you this is the most secure way to connect to the internet today. These programs simply make their code available for free so you can modify and
How to Upgrade Your Cyber Defenses to Protect Growth
Companies across the spectrum are embracing digital initiatives as crucial parts of their growth strategies. But the same technologies that allow companies to seamlessly connect with consumers — AI, machine learning, big data — also represent new targets for hackers to attack and new tools for
7 Benefits Startups get From HR in the Early Stages
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Beyond Usability: 3 User Experiences Reshaping Their Industries | HealthCare.gov’s Account Setup: 10 Broken Usability Guidelines
After Healthcare.gov was rescued, the United States Digital Service (USDS), 18F, and Code for America formed to address US government digital transformation and usable services, following in the footsteps of the U.K. government Digital Service. The 18F sign-in form pattern (shown above
Aspects of Design Quality
We often have prospective clients call us up to request help with one element of their site or intranet. For example, they often want to improve their IA or navigation . This is indeed a worthy cause, and would help most sites. But is it the weakness causing the most lost business value ? Maybe. Or
Finally Progress in Internet Client Design
I also find it strange that there is little visual integration between the video area and the interaction area. The anchors could easily point over to the other area to draw the user's attention to things to click on or surveys to answer (in a personal email, one of the anchors told me that they
