10 Most Common Misconceptions About User Experience Design. Whitney Hess is an independent user experience designer, writer and consultant based in New York City. She authors the blog Pleasure and Pain. When I tell people that I am a user experience designer, I usually get a blank stare. I try to follow it up quickly by saying that I make stuff easy and pleasurable to use. That’s the repeatable one-liner, but it’s a gross oversimplification and isn’t doing me any favors. The term “user experience” or UX has been getting a lot of play, but many businesses are confused about what it actually is and how crucial it is to their success. I asked some of the most influential and widely respected practitioners in UX what they consider to be the biggest misperceptions of what we do.
The result is a top 10 list to debunk the myths. User experience design is NOT... 1. ...user interface design “Interface is a component of user experience, but there's much more,” says Peter Merholz, founding partner and president of Adaptive Path. 2. ...a step in the process. User Experience Design Guidelines.
Interaction Design: Beyond Human-Computer Interaction. The Encyclopedia of Human-Computer Interaction. UI Design: Should We Really Be Afraid of the Uncanny Valley? Realism in UI design is a hot topic right now. Every design blog worth anything is openly telling Apple that they are way off in their suggestion that iPad apps should mimic reality. Join us as we add some life to the debate by tackling some of these notions head on. We’ll go over when realism is effective and when it is destructive and how you can wield it in your own designs without ruining your interface.
The iPad Sparks a Debate Ever since the release of the iPad, there has been much discussion on the use of realism in user interface design. For starters, we designers don’t particularly enjoy people telling us how to do our jobs. This has led to some stern warnings from the design community regarding the use of psuedo-realistic interfaces. On the Shoulders of Giants Most of today’s discussion in this arena will build off of three excellent articles on the subject from peers that I highly respect: The Uncanny Valley This idea perfectly applies to trend in UI design. A Story of Efficiency. UX Magazine | Defining and Informing the Complex Field of User Experience (UX) UX is for Cheesemakers, Too.
I’ve worked as a user experience designer for large corporations and agencies for a few years now, and have found a lot of inflated terminology creeping into my vocabulary—alarming anyone who hasn’t ‘gone corporate’. So when I was asked to help a small Orkney Island dairy farm to sell their product, I had cause to rethink: do most of the phrases and practices we use actually mean anything to anyone but us? I have no doubt that the service and UX design ethos works. How can you design something great for someone without knowing enough about what they actually want?
User Experience practitioners have learned that it’s not enough to focus on the point at which the customer hits a site and forget them once they leave. UX design is now united with service design in wanting to know what their customers had for breakfast—we want as much information as we can get. In truth, for very small businesses, UX and service design practices would appear to be an impractical luxury.
The Farmers The Cows 3. What Is User Experience Design? Overview, Tools And Resources. Advertisement Websites and Web applications have become progressively more complex as our industry’s technologies and methodologies advance. What used to be a one-way static medium has evolved into a very rich and interactive experience. But regardless of how much has changed in the production process, a website’s success still hinges on just one thing: how users perceive it. “Does this website give me value? Is it easy to use?
Is it pleasant to use?” User experience design is all about striving to make them answer “Yes” to all of those questions. What Is User Experience? User experience (abbreviated as UX) is how a person feels when interfacing with a system. Those who work on UX (called UX designers) study and evaluate how users feel about a system, looking at such things as ease of use, perception of the value of the system, utility, efficiency in performing tasks and so forth. UX designers also look at sub-systems and processes within a system. Why Is UX Important? Complex Systems. Why User Experience Cannot Be Designed. Advertisement A lot of designers seem to be talking about user experience (UX) these days. We’re supposed to delight our users, even provide them with magic, so that they love our websites, apps and start-ups.
User experience is a very blurry concept. Consequently, many people use the term incorrectly. Heterogeneous Interpretations of UX I recently visited the elegant website of a design agency. The perception might not be representative of our industry, but it illustrates that UX is perceived in different ways and that it is sometimes used as a buzzword for usability (for more, see Hans-Christian Jetter and Jens Gerken’s article “A simplified model of user experience for practical application1”). Some research indicates that perceptions of UX are different. Hassenzahl’s Model Of UX Hassenzahl’s “Model of User Experience”. Several models of UX have been suggested, some of which are based on Hassenzahl’s model3. Manipulation Identification Stimulation Furthermore, I think “Pretty cool!” (al) Www.jonkolko.com/projectFiles/scad/IACT315_02_DesigningForPeople.pdf. Forrester_Best_Prac_In_User_Exp.pdf (application/pdf Object)