From dictating addresses to Waze to asking personal assistants such as Siri to do tasks for you, more and more products and services are migrating to the cloud, and being controlled by voice. Hila Yonatan is discussing this new trend from a UX perspective, and what does it say about the next product/feature we’re going to work with? When Apple first launched Siri, they … [Read more...]
How To Create A Better User Experience For Wearables
While smartphones offer us advanced technology that fits in our pocket, the next step in the technological revolution is embedded in the tech we wear. In many ways, this step has been taken. In 2009, Fitbit unveiled its first wearable fitness tracker. Other wearable devices soon followed - from smart glasses and smart watches to microphoned earrings. Today, we have all … [Read more...]
Is Digital ‘Dumbing Down’ Desirable?
Software has never been more accessible than it is today. User interface design has never been more straightforward, or more standardised. Today, we can all enjoy websites, products and applications without having to trade in hours of training and technical know-how. This widespread accessibility seems patently beneficial. After all, software proficiency is no longer … [Read more...]
A Brief Introduction To Interaction Design
Most companies understand why they need a strong web presence, but they often leave the users out of the process. In a competitive digital landscape, businesses must do all they can do to assure a seamless user experience (UX). In our digital age, a company's website is often the first interaction a person has with a company's brand. It is what they see long before … [Read more...]
Conversational UX Design : An Introduction
Conversational user experience (UX) design has recently become a central part of discussions throughout the tech community. Web developers and designers are working to create technology that can interact with humans, experimenting with many types of conversational systems to follow in the footsteps of Alexa, Google Assistant, and Siri. As conversational UX design advances … [Read more...]
How to Design for Voice: 5 Tips to Get Started
Over the next ten years, a new, huge market will open for designers that until now have been extremely niche: Voice Designers. Voice design? How does it vary from conventional UX design? Actually, there are many similarities. User research, persona creation, prototyping, user flow creation, usability testing, and iterative design will all be necessary steps in … [Read more...]
Small Print In Graphic Communication And Information Design: A Discussion Of Issues And Interactions
You might consider small print boring or not valuable or interesting, but discussing small print: the way it is presented and used, could be interesting to explore and could raise some interesting points for writing and graphic communication and information design in general. This article is partly inspired by the point from information designer Patricia Wright from … [Read more...]
Pokémon Go And Its Impact On User Experience
By now, everybody has heard about Pokémon Go and its swift and spectacular rise to the top of the app world. For a game based on an old 90's Gameboy game and TV show, it has surprisingly universal appeal - kids and grandparents, hipsters and business people have all embraced it. At its height, the app had 25 million active users. Aside from making Augmented Reality … [Read more...]
Apple’s Mobile Touch ID System: Convenience Or A Security Risk?
To people who are interested in staying on top of developments in the tech world, it probably feels like incredible technology improvements are being unveiled by the day. Many of the tech enhancements that eventually become commonplace get engineered in an effort to create a better UX or make it safer for people and sometimes both. Apple's Touch ID mobile identification … [Read more...]
Social Impact. Market Relevance: The Dual-Threat of Conversational UI
Much has already been written about the Conversational User Interface (CUI). It’s impact on virtual assistants, convenience and search, and even the end of the graphical user interface (GUI) have all been explored, and for good reason. CUI is the future. GUI made perfect sense when our computers were stationary, when they sat on desks and didn’t ride along in our … [Read more...]