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JULY 29, 2022

By Olga Tichonova Universe image adapted from Alexander Meleg, CC BY-SA 3.0 , via Wikimedia Commons Trying to find a job during the peak of the pandemic as a junior UX designer was a grueling process, but after months of applying, I was given the opportunity to start a 9-month internship at the Wikimedia Foundation.

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NOVEMBER 5, 2021

UX design teams are passionate about our approach to solving problems and providing users with experiences that lead to their desired outcomes. Concept testing is a research method that involves getting user feedback during the upfront part of the design process to give feedback on potential solutions. Victor Yocco.

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JANUARY 14, 2023

But it was much later, towards the end of the 19th century , that the idea of an automated society, filled with robots at home and work, appeared in literature, science and popular culture. As a UX designer, I’m always wondering what impact these issues can have on user experience and what working with AI means.

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FEBRUARY 6, 2023

How naming your UX Research findings can make them stick Developing an understanding of user needs and identifying concrete design recommendations requires a combination of rigorous research, careful analysis, and effective communication. Scientific literature is full of great names that helped concepts catch on.

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JULY 24, 2023

Thankfully, there are plenty of these, all well-documented and researched, including: Better usability and user experience for everyone , not just those with disabilities⁵ Improved Search Engine Optimization (SEO) ⁶ Access to a market with $1.9 Yet, research suggests otherwise. 6] See an overview from Deque. [7] Stay tuned. [20]

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JANUARY 1, 2023

Tips for asking good, engaging, and productive questions Stock Image from Pexels Contributor Alex Green As researchers we love a good question, but what’s the craft behind asking questions? Asking questions is a craft that is at the heart of what UX Researchers do. And as a last resort, ask less and listen more.

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Credit: Daniel Streat/Visual Fields, courtesy of Vitra Design Museum The surrealist movement began in literature and art, but by no means did it stop there. Conference: UX Brighton. Info: Ticket prices vary. Book: Objects of Desire: Surrealism and Design. The Fair is open from 11am-8pm Friday and Saturday, and 11am-6pm on Sunday.

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MARCH 19, 2023

source: Kassenova ) Design Among the design literature, one data designer emerges who “turns data into art." Even in popular media, more movies are exploring the complex topics of infinity (∞), pi (π) and the circle (◯). Observe how Henri Matisse creates circular movement with the dancers in his painting. Or when art meets science?

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The term “metaverse,” which frequently appears in science fiction literature, has always been understood to refer to a virtual space where users can immerse themselves in the web (which is made up of Web 3.0 s decentralised, community-focused mindset with the functionality and appealing UX of Web 2.0 Modern UI (UX).

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FEBRUARY 1, 2023

Enter Judy Cameron and David Pierce, two professors at the University of Alberta, who in 1994 published a meta-analysis of the body of research purporting to substantiate the Overjustification Effect. Pink backs up his argument with constant reference to what “the science” tells us, as if the research is monolithic and unambiguous.

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DECEMBER 6, 2021

Photo by engin akyurt on Unplash Empathy is a common word in UX. Likewise, the Research field, and its importance within the organization, has (fortunately) been growing. Throughout my experience as a UX Writer, I’ve come to realize that the encounter mentioned in the previous paragraph is far from being the only one.

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OCTOBER 5, 2023

Luck was on my side when the scientific committee recognized my research as a top submission and invited me to publish a longer peer-reviewed journal paper. Academic politics distorts psychology: When I started reviewing behavioral science literature and systems, I quickly discovered that I needed to work across many academic silos.

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NOVEMBER 9, 2021

mostly by reading previously published literature relating to their topic. Learning more about a topic area—whether through reading or experimentation—increases our knowledge but it also pushes out the boundaries of our world. He also engaged with many topics at once?—?studying Charles Darwin, too, was a vivid traveller.

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AUGUST 19, 2021

How To Build An Ethical User Research Practice At Any Organization. How To Build An Ethical User Research Practice At Any Organization. A real interaction between computers and humans starts at technological conception by understanding users through a sound and ethical user research discipline. Devin Harold.

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OCTOBER 21, 2022

degrees Celsius as outlined in the Paris Agreement, a quick and cheap solution to the problem becomes ever more attractive to researchers and policy makers looking for a way out of the worst of it. Given that even with substantial policy gains like the U.S.’s So what exactly is the problem? Why would the U.S. government bother then?

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NOVEMBER 1, 2021

Qualitative research isn’t the opposite of quantitative research, it’s a powerful complement to it. There are a few phases of preparing to design something and one of those, and arguably one of the most important, is design research. For instance, we want to understand who our users are.

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APRIL 22, 2022

I already feel a bit ridiculous obsessing over these topics to such an extent, so you can imagine how I felt when I found out that management researchers call it the “penguin problem”. Sides Researchers typically differentiate platforms by their number of “sides”. That is the penguin problem. Franchise the damn thing!

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NOVEMBER 30, 2023

That’s why, to overcome the DS implementation stage, there needs to be some research and measurement process regarding product adoption. Since it’s a complex subject, I wanted to gather as many perspectives as possible, bringing everything that has been discussed on the topic in the last five years! UX Collective — Medium.

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JANUARY 21, 2022

In case you are interested in digging deeper into this mismatch of development and design processes, I have written a longish series of posts on this topic [3]. This underestimated impact of design could be a topic for another blog post later. Note: in this post I refer to development sprints.

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JANUARY 11, 2022

Oh and one more thing: skeuomorphism When I discussed the topic of this article, the term “skeuomorphism” came up. Metaphors have their background in literature and therefore they are more abstract and refer more to the purpose or the function of the thing. It was used in the original research in the 90s.

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JANUARY 28, 2023

But despite not being the user, there is a recurring need to internalise, or build empathy with, the people and the lessons we learn from user research. The importance of empathy is well-established in Design Thinking³, and is fundamental to both user research, UX, Service and Product Design.

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JUNE 30, 2022

Keep your options limited, frame them appropriately, and do plenty of qualitative research ahead of time. Both explicit and implicit factors have been proven through rigorous psychological research to impact decision-making and focus. For further reading on the concepts covered check out: Laws of UX?—? link] The Decision Lab?—?

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UX Collective

MARCH 9, 2022

Behavior & Knowledge In the last two decades, individuals like BJ Fogg founder and director of Stanford’s Behavior Design Lab: Models and Methods For Behavior Change: have been bridging research, psychology, technology, and products in and outside of the lab. Another resource from Palo Alto in the last decade has been scientist Andrew D.

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JULY 5, 2021

If you’d rather avoid this topic, please jump down one paragraph, starting with “A few months down the line”. So let’s look at what the literature says. Researchers tested the interpretation of the 22 most popular face and people emojis. The UX Collective donates US$1 for each article we publish.

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JANUARY 14, 2022

JS: After I finished my studies (English literature), I decided to become a self-employed language coach. All additional information, that is not necessary for the API reference but is useful for those who want to know more about a topic, is included in a separate document that deals with more conceptual aspects of the API.

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OCTOBER 30, 2023

Feel free to jump to topics that interest you: Intro: My personal experience with OKRs Intro: The surface problems 1. In environments that revere goal achievement, research suggests that goals often lead to critical failures — disasters such as the 1996 Everest climb, the Columbia disaster, and organizational collapses like Enron.

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JUNE 13, 2021

Negative emotions Years of game design research have told us that negative emotions such as frustration, anxiety, or boredom arise from a mismatch of experiences and expectations that arise due to problems with the pacing. The UX Collective donates US$1 for each article we publish. Build the design community you believe in.

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