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Usability

Why Tech Is Becoming Unusable for Everyone Except Cyborgs
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Why Tech Is Becoming Unusable for Everyone Except Cyborgs

Remember when technology was supposed to make life easier? That dream is long gone. Instead of simplifying our lives, modern UX has become an endurance test designed to see how much frustration the average user can endure before smashing their device.Older adults are completely left behind, struggling with interfaces that make no sense.But here’s the real kicker—even younger users, the so-called “digital natives,” are constantly battling against counterintuitive design, hidden options, and convoluted processes. It’s not just a generational problem anymore. It’s a universal one.Tech companies love to call their interfaces “intuitive,” but what they really mean is, “intuitive if you’ve spent years memorizing our specific logic.” Take something as simple as taking a screenshot. Once upon a ti...
Build Products that Stick. – A List Apart
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Build Products that Stick. – A List Apart

As a product builder over too many years to mention, I’ve lost count of the number of times I’ve seen promising ideas go from zero to hero in a few weeks, only to fizzle out within months. Article Continues Below Financial products, which is the field I work in, are no exception. With people’s real hard-earned money on the line, user expectations running high, and a crowded market, it’s tempting to throw as many features at the wall as possible and hope something sticks. But this approach is a recipe for disaster. Here’s why: The pitfalls of feature-first development#section2 When you start building a financial product from the ground up, or are migrating existing customer journeys from paper or telephony channels onto online banking or mobile apps, it’s easy to get caught ...
3 Essential Design Trends, October 2022
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3 Essential Design Trends, October 2022

This month, it’s all about the images. Each of the design trends we spotted has to do with the images you select – or don’t select – for a project and how you use them. Here’s what’s trending in design this month. 1. Floating Images Sometimes you design off the grid intentionally. Other times you are designing on a grid that’s maybe not-so-obvious. One of these things is happening with the floating images website design trend. Here, you’ll see images and image containers that don’t seem to have any direction with their placements. They may or may not include animation, that further emphasizes the floating effect. Floating images can include: Cutouts that aren’t anchored to anything or any container Images that are scattered on the canvas Images in oddball placements that don’t seem to serv...
Design for Safety, An Excerpt – A List Apart
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Design for Safety, An Excerpt – A List Apart

Antiracist economist Kim Crayton says that “intention without strategy is chaos.” We’ve discussed how our biases, assumptions, and inattention toward marginalized and vulnerable groups lead to dangerous and unethical tech—but what, specifically, do we need to do to fix it? The intention to make our tech safer is not enough; we need a strategy. Article Continues Below This chapter will equip you with that plan of action. It covers how to integrate safety principles into your design work in order to create tech that’s safe, how to convince your stakeholders that this work is necessary, and how to respond to the critique that what we actually need is more diversity. (Spoiler: we do, but diversity alone is not the antidote to fixing unethical, unsafe tech.) The process for inclusi...
Voice Content and Usability – A List Apart
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Voice Content and Usability – A List Apart

We’ve been having conversations for thousands of years. Whether to convey information, conduct transactions, or simply to check in on one another, people have yammered away, chattering and gesticulating, through spoken conversation for countless generations. Only in the last few millennia have we begun to commit our conversations to writing, and only in the last few decades have we begun to outsource them to the computer, a machine that shows much more affinity for written correspondence than for the slangy vagaries of spoken language. Article Continues Below Computers have trouble because between spoken and written language, speech is more primordial. To have successful conversations with us, machines must grapple with the messiness of human speech: the disfluencies and pauses, ...
Immersive Content Strategy – A List Apart
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Immersive Content Strategy – A List Apart

Beyond the severe toll of the coronavirus pandemic, perhaps no other disruption has transformed user experiences quite like how the tethers to our formerly web-biased era of content have frayed. We’re transitioning to a new world of remote work and digital content. We’re also experimenting with unprecedented content channels that, not too long ago, elicited chuckles at the watercooler, like voice interfaces, digital signage, augmented reality, and virtual reality. Article Continues Below Many factors are responsible. Perhaps it’s because we yearn for immersive spaces that temporarily resurrect the Before Times, or maybe it’s due to the boredom and tedium of our now-cemented stuck-at-home routines. But aural user experiences slinging voice content, and immersive user experiences u...
Popular Design News of the Week: December 21, 2020 – December 27, 2020
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Popular Design News of the Week: December 21, 2020 – December 27, 2020

Every week users submit a lot of interesting stuff on our sister site Webdesigner News, highlighting great content from around the web that can be of interest to web designers. The best way to keep track of all the great stories and news being posted is simply to check out the Webdesigner News site, however, in case you missed some here’s a quick and useful compilation of the most popular designer news that we curated from the past week. Minimal CSS Loader Collection   Webdesign Toolbox: Find the Perfect Web Development Tools   Facebook: Free as in Bullsh*t   New Year Edition: Top UX/UI Design Trends Rushing to Us In 2021   Our 50 Favorite CSS Libraries, Frameworks and Tools from 2020   404 Page Inspiration – The Best 404 Pages from Around the Web   7 Best Instagram Tools for Designe...
Usability Testing for Voice Content – A List Apart
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Usability Testing for Voice Content – A List Apart

It’s an important time to be in voice design. Many of us are turning to voice assistants in these times, whether for comfort, recreation, or staying informed. As the interest in interfaces driven by voice continues to reach new heights around the world, so too will users’ expectations and the best practices that guide their design. Article Continues Below Voice interfaces (also known as voice user interfaces or VUIs) have been reinventing how we approach, evaluate, and interact with user interfaces. The impact of conscious efforts to reduce close contact between people will continue to increase users’ expectations for the availability of a voice component on all devices, whether that entails a microphone icon indicating voice-enabled search or a full-fledged voice assistant waiti...
Popular Design News of the Week: December 7, 2020 – December 13, 2020
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Popular Design News of the Week: December 7, 2020 – December 13, 2020

Every week users submit a lot of interesting stuff on our sister site Webdesigner News, highlighting great content from around the web that can be of interest to web designers. The best way to keep track of all the great stories and news being posted is simply to check out the Webdesigner News site, however, in case you missed some here’s a quick and useful compilation of the most popular designer news that we curated from the past week. Web Typography Rules: What You Need to Know   How Microsoft Crushed Slack   Graphic Design Trends for Social Media in 2021   UX Christmas   Traxr – Monitor Links with 100% Accuracy   Hexometer 2.0: Monitor Website Issues and Performance Actively   Designing Data Science Tools at Spotify   Cow Pilot – The Deadline Driven To-Do List   Roy – A Simple ...
Popular Design News of the Week: December 14, 2020 – December 20, 2020
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Popular Design News of the Week: December 14, 2020 – December 20, 2020

Every week users submit a lot of interesting stuff on our sister site Webdesigner News, highlighting great content from around the web that can be of interest to web designers. The best way to keep track of all the great stories and news being posted is simply to check out the Webdesigner News site, however, in case you missed some here’s a quick and useful compilation of the most popular designer news that we curated from the past week. The Best Design Tool of 2020 is not What You Expect   14 Top Design Trends to Watch Out for in 2021   UI Trends for 2077   Firefox was Always Enough   Wavelry – Create & Customise Wavey Svg and Png Backgrounds   Design Documentation   The Best 25 Black and White Web Design Inspiration   2020 Design Tools Survey   Web Design in 2021 – What to Ex...