Things such as group brainstorming, on-the-fly presentations and open workspaces have become the norm in most design agencies. But the stereotypical extrovert is just one of the personalities that make up a successful team. A lot of people who excel at and are passionate about design are actually introverts. So, how can we better balance our teams and elevate extroverts and introverts alike? As introverted UX designers ourselves, we’ve been unsurprisingly passionate about finding answers to this conundrum.
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Microcopy is the little text that can make or break your user experience. If your microcopy isn’t getting the job done, you’ll lose users — and all the marketing in the world might not get you a second chance. With that in mind, here are five ways to make sure your website’s microcopy doesn’t end up sinking your UX.
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In this article, we’ll travel into the future and explore a world where Google Glass and a few other technologies are as much a part of our daily lives as our smartphones and desktops are now. We’ll be discussing a new paradigm of human-computer interface. The goal of this piece is to start a discussion with forward-thinking user experience designers, and to explore what’s possible when the mainstream starts to interact with computers in 3-D space.
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If you are a mobile UI or UX designer, you probably remember the launch of Apple’s first iPhone. It introduced a completely touchscreen-centered interaction to a individual’s most private and personal device. It was a game-changer. Today, kids grow up with touchscreens, and touch and gesture interactions have a lot of potential to make mobile experiences easier and more fun to use.
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We have conceptualized different uses of multiple screens to tell stories. All of us, from every corner of the globe, have intensely rich cultures filled with stories and fables. Using them to create interactive narratives is another way to explore the power of the Web, to wow people, and to record our cultural history.
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Every app tells a story. Deciding on the story for your app requires careful thought and creativity. Most stories have a lesson, and indeed most apps do, too. For any app developer, conveying an app’s story at launch is critical. And just as important as promoting the story of your app is developing a story around the app that promotes the app’s story and that differentiates the app from its competitors. To that end, what follows is a story about storytelling for a storybook app!
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This article discusses how to influence behavior by designing well-crafted feedback loops. Assist your users in understanding and achieving their goals by continually optimizing your feedback loops. Focus on making them fast, meaningful, quantified and contextual, and your users will thank you for improving their lives.
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You send in questions you have about UX Design, and each month we’ll pick a handful of questions asked by our readers about best practices in designing smart and usable experiences.
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This article covers the fundamental concepts for utilizing smart device technologies and sensor data in order to understand context and introduce “adaptive thinking” into the UX professional’s toolset. The author demonstrates the importance of context when designing adaptive experiences and gives ideas on how to design adaptive systems.
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How does a company like Apple make such great new things that people already know how to use? As Alan Cooper writes in “About Face”: ‘All idioms must be learned; good idioms need to be learned only once.’
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