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...
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Stop Focusing on Cryptocurrencies Problems. Consider its Future.
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beyond usability: 3 user experiences reshaping their industries
UX Responsibilities in Scrum Ceremonies
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Marking Required Fields in Forms
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beyond usability: 3 user experiences reshaping their industries
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beyond usability: 3 user experiences reshaping their industries
A 60-Second Trailer of the 60-Day Report on Cybersecurity
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Beyond Usability: 3 User Experiences Reshaping Their Industries | The Characteristics of Minimalism in Web Design
The Characteristics of Minimalism in Web Design
The Getting Started page for Jeet.gs grid system API features a completely flat interface, including ‘ghost buttons’ for copying code snippets. (Ghost buttons are empty buttons with a thin rectangular border and text.) Flat ghost buttons can have legibility problems, and they break away
Why Frames Suck (Most of the Time)
In the long term, we will need a richer model for hypertext nodes on the web than can be supported by frames. For example, composite nodes, typed nodes, hierarchical nesting of nodes, nodes with different views, and nodes with actions that influence other nodes are all ideas that have been explored
"Get Started" Stops Users
A web-design trend that is becoming increasingly problematic is the Get Started button. This button is often the most prominent and enticing call-to-action on the homepage, and can appear to be the right path for nearly every activity a user is looking to complete — be it to sign up for a service
