Outdated UX patterns and alternatives

Meet North, design and development standards to align and guide your project. It's a comprehensive guide contributed to the open source community to encourage, "a mobile-first, in-browser, system based approach to design and development." Check out North on GitHub: The section of the guide that I found most interesting is, Outdated UX Patterns, a collection of examples of what not to do when building a website, which tries to steer designers from borrowing from ineffective practices to solve common problems. Just like how presentations deprecate, so do UX patterns. There are a plethora of outdated UX patterns currently being used that do not suit users or business well and their usage should be ceased. It may be ambitious to call some of these patterns "outdated" since many of them are still prevalent across the web. Carousels These are everywhere on the web, but largely inefficient when it comes to getting users to engage with content past the first slide. Alternative: Alternatives: Overlays

Use Your Interface A brief history of user experience Think about the last time you ate at a restaurant. What cuisine did it serve? What made you to choose that particular restaurant? Your answers to these questions, including all the emotional highs and lows, encompass the restaurant’s user experience (UX). However, when people use the term UX, they’re usually referring to one’s experience with a digital or technological product or service. Today, UX has grown into an important design discipline that continues to grow and evolve. To think about where the much debated-practice of user experience design will take us next, it’ll help to take a look back at some of the key events in its meandering evolution. Circa 1430: Leonardo da Vinci’s “kitchen nightmare” Michael Gelb’s wonderful book "How to Think like Leonardo da Vinci" recounts the story of the Duke of Milan commissioning da Vinci to design the kitchen for a high-profile feast. Early 1900s: Taylorism and the Industrial Revolution 1948: Toyota and the humanizing of the production system

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