Design Jargons, UX Smells, and a special collection of articles on Chatbots
What’s hot in UX this week:
What’s hot in UX this week:
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Design Jargons: an Interview with Sagi Shrieber, from Hacking UI →
Sagi Shrieber is a designer, writer, & entrepreneur. Co-founder of Hacking UI, founder of PixelPerfectMag, and a UX mentor for startups at Google Campus.
What are the new words you see yourself using more often recently? Any new terms that were not part of your vocabulary two years ago?
Sagi: Number one is Micro-Interactions. Back then it was all about creating prototypes. Animations were sometimes done in After Effects. Recently (in the past year or two) a lot of new tools came out which a were only about that. Tools like Principle and Origami are now used to communicate transitions & animations better than ever…
Designing Anticipated User Experiences →
Anticipatory Design is possibly the next big leap within the field of Experience Design. This sounds amazing, but where does it lead us? And how will it affect our relationship with technology?
via Caio Braga
The Rules for Modern Navigation →
Websites provide access to all sorts of information. However, many websites have navigation that just works “well enough,” allowing people to access what they need to — but after some struggle.
via Fabricio Teixeira
Awaken the Champion A/B Tester Within →
Athletes in every sport monitor and capture data to help them win: caloric intake, training regimens, and athletic performance, using data to refine every advantage possible. A/B testing can be dominated the same way.
via Fabricio Teixeira
Should Designers Design? →
We keep hearing questions such as: Should designers code? Should designers prototype? Should designers write copy? We’ve talked to Kristof Orts, designer at delivery.com, to unpack what that really means.
via Fabricio Teixeira
UX Smells →
Some product and UI features should almost never be used in well-designed products. Seeing them should be a warning that deeper problems exist in the product’s user experience.
via Caio Braga
Combatting Unconscious Bias in Design →
A few years ago, a male-led design team was working on a brief for a major athletic apparel company. When the team presented its work to the client, the reaction was honest: the work was too clinical and serious.
via Fabricio Teixeira
Lossless Web Navigation with Trails →
Since the early 2000’s, the desktop metaphor of tabbed browsing has dominated the way we navigate the web. What if we could evolve the standard tabbed browser towards a model based on trails?
via Fabricio Teixeira
Chatbots, Chatbots, Chatbots.
We’ve had a few interesting pieces published this week about chatbots and conversational UI. The world keeps talking about conversational interfaces and how that can become a pretty standard interaction in the near future. While we are still not there, we’ll keep exploring what that means for our design process and for the way we think about UX.
Making Chatbots Talk: Writing UI Scripts Step by Step
Designing a Chatbot Conversation: How To Keep Users In The Loop
We Need to Talk About Accessibility on Chatbots
What we can learn from Alexa’s mistakes
Chatbots: an interview with Chris Messina, inventor of the hashtag
Getting started with chatbots? Here are 10 links you should look at →
News & Ideas
Salesforce acquires Sequence to build out its UX design services
AirBNB opened up their internal prototyping tool, Lottie
Positive Black News sends you a slice of feel-good black knowledge
Precious Plastic is an initiative to democratize plastic recycling
Just so you know, Logoji = logos + emojis
The Founder is a game/satire on the startup investment world
How Resident Evil kept the franchise going for 15 years
The many grueling steps of a refugee seeking resettlement to the US
Tools & Resources
The Circular Design Guide: a series of new design methods by IDEO
Framer launched a new version; the demo video is pretty exciting
Waves.ai is a service for monetizing chatbots
Here are 12 Android tutorials for first-time app developers
Fero.io is an analytics tool for small user flows
Dropbox introduced Smart Sync this week
CSS lovers, let’s make one thing clear: line-height is unitless
A year ago…
3 Keys To Creating a Frictionless Experience →
As companies dive into creating digital products and services, for customers and employees, they’ll be challenged with creating these “Frictionless” experiences.
Here are three key elements to think about:
1. Anticipatory design: deliver what users want before they want it
2. Take a context-first strategy
3. Avoid the digital interface