UX design is all about iteration. Sometimes we may impress by some awesome products with longevity history. They improve their system based on users’ need. Sometimes they also solve the problem and make the dead product or brand come back to life. For an old and high reputation product, it is really hard to make […]
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The screen has become the predominant and default way for humans to interact with computers, but everyday voice based interfaces are becoming more and more advanced. Last Friday, Richa and I sat down with Omri Dvir, a Senior Design Lead at Microsoft who works on Cortana, to learn more about usability considerations of voice user
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A great digital product isn’t built in a short period of time. However, it requires several communications across the team and adapts in many iterations. As a UX professions, you may wonder are there any techniques or tools that help this process more efficient and also results in better outcome? Design system is a methodology
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What is a diary study? A diary study is a daily log of activities that you get a user to keep over an extended period of time. Users might need to take photos or videos to explain their activities and highlight things that stood out to them across the course of their day. We run
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A chatbot is an artificial intelligence that provides the conversational interface to aid users with a set of tasks through text or audio. It was first introduced in 1950. Alan Turing, an English mathematician and computer scientist, outlined the Turing artificial intelligence test in his paper “Computer Machinery and Intelligence” (Dermoudy, 2018). The recent blooming of
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Microcopy might be a relatively strange term for many people. Even designers know what it means, microcopy is easy to be overlooked in the design process. However Microcopy is everywhere in our digital product. From the label on a call-to-action button, to the pop-up message on a certain interface, designers use it involuntarily as a
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Journey-driven transformation is a powerful, end-to-end approach for creating exceptional “customer experiences” that drive revenue, profitability, and sustainable competitive advantage. As said by Ann Lewnes, EVP and CMO of Adobe: The term ‘customer experience’ won’t exist in the organization of the future. It will be so deeply entrenched in a company’s product, process, and culture that
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I had the opportunity to listen to a talk on “You are not the user- Why and how design decisions should be informed by research and data” by Christina Ou, who is a product designer at Percolate. The talk was given as part of an event called HexHacks, which was a UXathon run by Hexagon.
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Brandon Whightsel is Design Director at Yahoo Finance, where he has worked for six years. Prior to that, he worked at the Wall Street Journal, Reuters, AOL, and CBS News. We sat down to talk about how UX research and usability evaluation are integrated in his team’s work. The following transcript has been edited for
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Most people in software development are familiar with the Agile methodology – a system that emphasizes quick iteration and reactive planning. The last few years have seen a rise in Agile adoption, and therefore a rise in quickly developed, functional technology. However, many implementers of this technique don’t take into account UX research and design,
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