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Patrick Thornton
The Homer Simpson car is a great lesson in building products
But good product design is not about letting your users design your products for you — it’s about solving users problems and making their lives better... Never ask your users what to build. Ask your users what they are trying to do...
Thomas Crook
The HiPPO syndrome: Humans can't reliably predict design effectiveness
It’s hard for some people involved with web/app design and development to accept that they can’t rely on intuition, judgment or even qualitative testing methods to reliably predict the success of a new feature. When I worked at Microsoft, one site manager told us his team didn’t need to A/B test their site redesign because “Good design is in our DNA!”
alex margot
Cognitive psychology in UX design: Minimizing the cognitive load
Cognitive load refers to the amount of effort that is exerted or required while reasoning and thinking. Any mental process, from memory to perception to language, creates a cognitive load because it requires energy and effort. When cognitive load is high, thought processes are potentially interfered with. To the UX designer, a common goal when designing interfaces would be to keep users’ cognitive load to a minimum.
Joshua Porter, Josh Brewe
The experience belongs to the user - God complex approach to UX
We all like to play God. We like to imagine that the design we create is ushered into the world and all those who use it have an epiphany…they do things exactly in the way we have prescribed. They approach, use, and experience our design in the manner we envisioned, resulting in an amazing user experience. You might call this the God complex approach to UX. It is the ego-driven approach, the one in which designer knows better than user, the one in which users don’t know what’s good for them...
Patrick Thornton
A room with a viewpoint: Using social norms to motivate environmental conservation in hotels
The complete absence of a descriptive normative approach to hotel conservation programs is especially remarkable considering that studies conducted by the largest manufacturer of hotel towel reuse signs indicate that approximately 75% of guests who have the opportunity to participate in such programs do reuse their towels at least once during their stay. From a practical perspective, then, one purpose of this research was to investigate whether using an appeal that conveys the descriptive norm for participation in such programs would be more effective at encouraging towel reuse than the current industry standard appeal. We tested this hypothesis...
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Hilal Yildrim
What is the Feature Bloat and how can you effectively get rid of it
Feature bloat, also known as feature creep, feature fatigue, or software bloat, is having more than necessary features in your product. This situation ends up in a basic function shadowing core functions. Thus, the customers not being able to figure out the core use case of it.
Greg Warman
Design thinking in action: Embrace Global
The “Embrace Infant Warmer” is nearly ready for market. Interest in the product has already exceeded expectations. Indeed, healthcare systems around the world have been inquiring about the unit’s availability. By solving a real problem and solving it well, Embrace is poised to do more than introduce a popular product; they will be saving lives.