What Are You Really Hearing? Effectively Processing Feedback

At some point during a person’s career, getting feedback from a boss or teammate isn’t out of the ordinary, but it’s something that may not happen every day. In the life of a UX practitioner, getting and responding to feedback is an ongoing event. However, effectively processing and putting that feedback into action takes practice. In […]

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Designer or Mechanic? UX Design as Vocational Education

In Margaret Rhodes’s March Wired article “Forget Welding. The Hottest New Vocational Schools Do Digital Design” the author explores the recent rise in popularity of user experience design as a vocational course. Vocational education — an educational course designed to directly segue the student into a trade workforce or technical career — has traditionally been conceived of as

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Creating Usability with Motion: The UX in Motion Manifest

I’ve recently read this interesting article – Creating Usability with Motion: The UX in Motion Manifesto on Medium. This article is written by Issara Willenskomer, the founder of UX in Motion. He creates the theory of  12 principle of UX in motion and talks about how a good motion improve the usability. I used some GIFs

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Gamification: does it actually better user experience?

In recent years, the practice of applying game-design elements in non-game contexts (Gamification) has become a heated topic. It attracts many scholars and designers because the gaming industry possesses an extremely engaged audience. While gamification benefits some products’ marketing performance, the problems of its implementation are gradually appearing. Gamification is nothing new. The term was

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Resources For Eliminating Bias in Design

I recently discovered an interesting article on UXBooth tilted Resources for Eliminating Bias in Design. In this essay; author Benjamin Evans, a UX Designer and advocate for accessible and inclusive design, describes how, as designers our work is unconsciously limited by bias, and the ways we can identify and overcome them. Evans starts off by describing

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Writing on UX Writing

UX Writing spans many aspects of user experience design including but not limited to: important skills required for designers, delightful microcopy in a user interface, effective error messaging, and more. I saw an article What is UX Writing? posted on UX Booth at the beginning of the year that explains a burgeoning job position in the

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