Welcome back to our series on improving the user experience of learning design; the last two parts can be found under the UX Daily tab on our website if you missed them. Today, we’re going to be looking at some more great ideas for polishing learning experiences for great UX:Train Before You TrainAu
If you missed the first part of our series on learning design, yesterday, you can find it under the UX Daily tab on our website. Today, we’re going to continue with visual elements and then explore some other areas to improve the UX of learning experience design:Follow the Law of ProximityIt can be
Action Research is an important part of Human-Computer Interaction research and design. Yet, it’s one of those curiously academic fields that most of us haven’t encountered in the “wider world”. Action Research is underpinned by the idea that no (technological) development has any value without acti
If you’re involved in designing online or even app learning tools then there are some fairly useful tips that you can use to make your projects more effective. This is where User Experience and ROI on learning investment collide:Visuals Plus Text = Better RetentionAuthor/Copyright holder: Daily Geni
Human Computer Interaction is a surprisingly deep field of research. One of the areas that HCI tries to touch on is the interaction between our emotions and technology. There are three academic schools of thought that dictate how people involved in UI/HCI approach emotions and technology.Affective C
Naomi Robbins, the author of Creating More Effective Graphs commented on our text “Data Visualization for Human Perception” by Stephen Few (owner of Perceptual Edge). She offers some ideas on misleading representations of data. This led us to wonder; how can you design data representations that don’
This may surprise many designers but there’s no need for our designs to be unique. In fact, it’s probably fair to say that there are very few truly unique designs created in any given year. The rest of us know that we’re not required to start designing tomorrow’s supercar by starting to design the w
Evaluating the outcomes of our actions makes sense. However, there is a cognitive bias where we place too much weight on the outcome and aren’t critical enough of the process by which we reached that outcome. Learning to avoid the outcome bias can help improve the quality of our decision making proc
There’s a good argument that prototypes can be used instead of wireframes because they serve a similar purpose. If you’re operating in an environment where most work is done parallel – this would seem like a reasonable argument too. A prototype can be very similar to a wireframe (in face a hi-fideli
Did you know that some of the most dramatic design shifts are brought about by users of products? In fact in many instances, such as open source software, users are often able to bring about huge levels of change and are willing and freely able to share this with the larger community. In short produ
We spend a lot of time looking at the practical skills for UX designers here at the Interaction Design Foundation; we think that’s natural because we want to help equip UX designers to be the best that they can be. However, it might be time to take a quick peek at the soft skills that you need in or
Today we’re looking at great UX techniques with a look at what developers can do to improve the UX of the projects that they’re working on.1. Make It Clear to Users When You Change ThingsIf you make a change to your product or website; you need to let your users know about it. It’s often very frustr
Many web designers can imagine visual interfaces in their heads before putting them down on paper. It is a unique skill that few can master. Think of your clients, they usually try to interfere with your designs once they get their hands on them after running through countless hours of code and desi
In a world where Apple has become synonymous with great design; is it true that users are always looking for the simplest possible user experiences? That’s Apple’s forte after all – taking complexity and making it strikingly simple to manage.Cultures of ComplexityUser experience designers have right
It can be easy to forget that users don’t come in a standard format when designing products. We’re getting better at catering for different personas or demographics but the industry still lags a long way behind design that is accessible to as many disabled people as possible.The principle of “Design
If you’re involved in the user experience of selling or persuading and let’s be fair, most UX designers are, then you want to be able to use as many tools as possible to drive decisions in your direction. Of course, you could head for the dark side and cheat, extort and mislead your users but the pr
Occasionally we hear from a new freelance designer who is confused about why they should invest in brand building. They feel that one of the reasons that they went freelance was to get away from the corporate and surely branding is just another corporate exercise? So we’ve got 5 good reasons to buil
User-centered design is not a new concept (at least in technology terms where new means “last week”) but despite the clear importance of UCD; it can still be a hard sell to clients. Here are some good reasons for taking a UCD approach that may help change your client’s mind about UCD:1. It Leads to
Development budgets often have limited funding for UX practices, especially with the rising cost and limited availability on the development front. This has led to the use of lightweight usability testing methods and the rapid movement toward agile usability engineering. In 2003, Jakob Nielson recom
Today we’d like to take a quick look at 5 useful tools for interaction designers.Page LayersAuthor/Copyright holder: Page Layers. Copyright terms and licence: All rights reserved Img sourceIf you’re working on a Mac then Page Layers is a very handy tool. It lets you open your site in your web browse
AI is replacing jobs everywhere, yet design jobs are booming with a projected 45% job growth. With design skills, you can create products and services people love. More love means more impact and greater salary potential.
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