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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Beyond Usability: 3 User Experiences Reshaping Their Industries
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beyond usability: 3 user experiences reshaping their industries
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beyond usability: 3 user experiences reshaping their industries
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beyond usability: 3 user experiences reshaping their industries
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100 Million Websites
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