#user-experience

I Think my Company Needs Some #ux
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I Think My Company Needs Some UXThere comes a time when a team, company or leader starts to consider whether User Experience (UX) might come in handy.Some people never heard about it.Some people saw someone do it at their previous company.Some people got their business going down like a comet on fire with a product where customers are spitting lava and nobody knows what to do.If any of these fit your case, I’m glad you’re here.Now, this is not a guide on how to become a UX Designer. Also, I’m not going to define UX or explain the details of each process.This is about HOW: How to start doing it inside a Company, by understanding when to do each process and the way to approach it.Getting Everyone On BoardIf you or anyone on the team don’t know yet what is the expected outcome from UX, we need to  (...)

#user-experience #ux-design #consulting #product-management

Why #ux Design Must Be the Foundation of Your Software Product
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“A user interface is like a joke. If you have to explain it, it’s not that good.” — Martin LeBlanc, IconfinderIt is an open secret that product design today is primarily about convenience and benefits for users. The best, most successful products embody flawless user experience.We at SumatoSoft strive to incorporate best practices in software we build for clients — and user experience design (UX) is one of them.So what is exactly user experience design?User experience design is the process of creating products that provide relevant and significant experiences to users based on their behaviour analysis. By analyzing the behavior of users, UX design identifies their motives and creates optimum digital experiences for them. The main objective of UX design is to improve the way users interact with (...)

#user-experience-design #data-driven #product-design #user-experience

Earning #crypto > Crypto
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The days of disruption, radical token models, value capture theses and spreading crypto gospel to anyone who will listen are over. Make room for #blockchain transformation, value creation and #adoption. Maturation is a good thing.Despite the shift, what was once the cypherpunk’s vision of the future — an internet of value, sovereignty, privacy and micro-payments — is still within our reach. The ICO model was tragically flawed. New business and social coordination models were sold ahead of the technology and cultural shifts. Token engineering value capture was hamstrung by the limitations of early cryptonetworks (try computing anything on-chain). However, nothing trumps the blaring noise of our crypto gospel choir than the average Internet user.They don’t care about sound money policy, (...)

#user-experience #cryptocurrency

Break Down Silos! How to Enhance User-Centricity on #scrum Teams
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Gary Pedretti, Professional Scrum Trainer, Scrum.orgI often see User Experience (UX) Designers struggle to align focus, work, and approach with Scrum Teams building increments of product in iterations of 30 days or fewer. Common concerns and questions I hear include:“Developers aren’t really interested in the user, they just want to build.”“I’m trying to work side-by-side with the team, but I’m always a bit ahead of them, so what should we talk about in our Daily Scrum?”“I don’t work in sort cycles, or tactically. My work is strategic.”“Why don’t developers use my design artifacts and decisions? Why do they never go back and refactor for good design? Why do I feel like I never have any influence?!?!”These challenges often result in tenuous relationships between UX Designers (UXDs) and Scrum Teams —  (...)

#user-experience-design #agile #user-experience #scrum-agile

How We Solved #blockchain Application User Experience
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The Benefits of the Blockchain with the Usability of Web 2.0The promise of blockchain enabled applications is rooted in empowering users and creating positive sum games where everyone can win, without needing rent seeking intermediaries. Until now, the nature of decentralization has made blockchain applications hard to use for the average internet user.At Deconet, we’ve implemented a solution for users to control their private key without requiring these users to understand any new systems, conventions, or standards. Deconet is a marketplace where companies can get work done by elite freelancers and curated teams that leverages blockchain and programmable money,Underneath the hood, the Deconet marketplace is powered by Smart Escrow, a peer to peer, smart contract system running on (...)

#blockchain-application #user-experience #product-management #blockchain-ux

#blockchain #usability #checklist
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How have blockchains become more usable starting from the protocol layer and surrounding infrastructure.Figure: Usability ChecklistTo help censorship resistant, immutable, and permissionless blockchains gain wide spread market #adoption, a lot of changes have to be made. Every individual layer of the ecosystem needs to become more usable from the base protocol to the end-user interface. These layers must leverage the unique properties of blockchain for meaningful adoption to occur. Because what’s the point of using a censorship resistant blockchain if the interface is censoring?Today is the first piece in a series of posts detailing blockchain usability for the different blockchain layers (that we have made up completely, mildly modelled after the OSI model). Here we will focus on the (...)

#user-experience

Improving the UX of PSprices.com: Structure to increase conversion.
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A while ago I decided as a hobby project to improve the User Experience of PSprices.com. I love the price monitoring product that they build, but the UX is quite a mess. As I’m focused on UX and not on #design, I tried to keep the design and branding unchanged.Normally I would never make any changes to a website withouth analysing the existing usage data. In this case, as I’m not involved with the website, I had to make some assumptions.Before and afterMy main focus in the new UX is to help the user reach his goal of: Buying the game now when the price is low, or buying it later when the price drops more. By reducing unnecessary info, improving the flow through the page I created a UX design that is very likely to perform better in reaching the user’s goal (and the business goal of the (...)

#ux-design #conversion-optimization #user-experience #copywriting

#amazon #alexa’s Expansion into Startups
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Source: Shelly Palmer.The Amazon Echo (along with its associated vocal transducer/artificial intelligence Alexa), that served as the forerunner to #google Home by several years, is beginning to be overshadowed by Alexa-based speakers.An Alexa speaker can be acquired in rather manageable sizes such as the Echo (2nd Generation) Smart Speaker with Alexa which stands under 6 inches in height. These are compact devices capable of providing its user with 360-degree sound. Currently, the voice assistant’s makers are trying to put her to use in numerous related fields.Amazon has been working on designing and producing a variety of System Dev Kits (SDK’s) which Amazon itself has defined as “end-to-end system reference designs for creating products with Alexa built-in.” Examples of some SDK’s include (...)

#artificial-intelligence #user-experience

Why are there so many ways to move around inside virtual reality?
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At its best, virtual reality is one of the most immersive forms of entertainment. At its worst, VR makes its users feel motion sick in a matter of seconds.Why do some people get really sick inside VR? It begins with the disconnect between what the eyes see and what the brain processes, or dissonance. When you’re sitting in a chair in real life but you’re moving forward in VR, chances are you’re not going to feel great pretty quickly.Developers have created quite a few ways to navigate VR environments that reduces the dissonance between the eyes and the brain. First we’re going to examine the traversal method that only those with the strongest stomachs can handle and finally we’ll examine a few methods that heighten immersion.This is the traversal method that some people can handleIf you (...)

#virtual-reality-ux #locomotion #vr-ux #virtual-reality #user-experience

Why A Seamless #onboarding Experience For Your #product Is So Important
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This year, I decided to take advantage of Black Friday and did some shopping for smart home devices — a thermostat and doorbell.I’m not exactly Mr. DIY, but I decided to attempt to set the devices up myself.As I began installing them, it immediately became clear just how much time the companies had invested in making their onboarding experience as seamless as possible. Everything from the packaging to the setup instructions was laser-focused on ensuring I could get these products up and running myself.The attention to detail that the companies had put into the onboarding process was very remarkable. They had included extra wires, screws and even the drill bit I needed to create holes for the screws.It made me think of one of my main responsibilities right now — onboarding our company’s (...)

#user-experience #tech #customer-experience

Why #values Should Drive Applications
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Photo by Sophie Dale on UnsplashIn, “Computers for Cynics”, Ted Nelson explains the difference between #technology and packaging. Technology is the application of science.Packaging is using #design to put technology together to form applications.A resistor is technology. Computer protocols such as TCP, IP, and DHCP are technology. Nelson explains that packaging puts technology into applications. Packaging is how applications look and feel.In creating applications, design matters. It is a crucial part of packaging technology.Design guides user behavior and action. It can be used to benefit or harm people.Careless design creates harmful applications. This is because these designs do not have the user in mind and are not guided by values.Why Design MattersApple was founded in 1976 by Steve Jobs (...)

#values-drive-applications #user-experience

How to Test the #usability of Your Prototypes on Mobile and Desktop Devices?
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Broadly speaking, usability testing is a technique used in usercentered interaction design in order to evaluate a product by testing on users. It allows companies to test a basic version of mobile app or website before dedicating time toward coding and developing stage. Why worry about usability so early when prototyping already has a big todo list? Because “Unless your product is usable, all your testing will tell you is that people don’t like terrible products”.Without any doubt, usability testing can start without prototyping, and those tests may pinpoint the best way to structure your information architecture or prototype’s navigation. Some popular preprototyping tests include Card Sorting, Tree Testing and Interviews. It’s different between testing a prototype and testing a functional (...)

#ux #user-experience-design #user-experience #ux-design

15 Latest and Best Loading Animations to Make User Enjoy Waiting
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Nowadays, since internet speed has been highly improved, people can smoothly open a website/app within seconds and get their desired information quickly. However, sometimes, it is unavoidable to let them wait since there is a large amount of data/pages that need to be processed/loaded/downloaded.In such cases, what are you supposed to do for keeping them stay on the website/app longer instead of leaving directly as a UX/UI designer? How about adding a beautiful, interesting and eye-catching loading #animation to retain visitors in your site/app #design? But, don’t know how to design such an eye-catching and user-friendly loading gif that makes user enjoy waiting?Here is our collection of 15 latest and best loading animations for you to get inspiration:1. Orb animation WIPDesigner：Aleksey (...)

#ux-design #user-experience #apps

Latest #spotify update — Spotify’s New Features for Artists
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Spotify has revamped their Artist profile section to give artists more Spotify promotion features.With over 70 million subscribers and 159 million active users, Spotify is the key service for listening to #music. However, as an artists are competing with over 35 million other songs, within over 2 billion playlists on Spotify, so artist pages need to stand out amongst the rest. Here’s a list of the new key features and what artists can use them for.Get VerifiedArtists can now get their page verified. It sounds stupid that you need to get a little blue tick next to your artist name but it’s essential, as it means you’re able to update your artist image anytime you want, post artist playlists to your profile and make Artist’s Picks. The simple blue tick basically lets fans know that the (...)

#user-experience #technology #music-marketing