UX Collective

MAY 27, 2022

Defining and delivering against your user’s problems does not mean that it will be delightful to use. Designers often work towards delivering products that respond to customer needs, that frictionless and functional… but not delightful. Don’t consider it a feature but an emotion. Robert Plutchik’s emotion wheel?—?

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UX Collective

DECEMBER 4, 2023

The 9th edition of The State of UX report by the UX Collective is here: a critical look at our industry based on more than 1k articles published and shared with our 500k+ subscribers in 2023. Corporations exert significant influence over the economy and society, and designers can only push so far when advocating for user needs.

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UX Collective

JULY 5, 2023

Unraveling the intersection of neuroscience and design. In the first part of this series , I began scratching the surface of this intriguing field, exploring the connections between neuroscience and design aesthetics. Today I am diving deeper into neuroaesthetics and its link to product design. Anjan Chatterjee.

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UX Collective

SEPTEMBER 23, 2022

The ultimate goal of product design has to be well-being?—?not not delight. Aaron Walter’s “Delight Pyramid” where “pleasurable” experiences are the ultimate goal Humor me a moment, will you? Here at Delightful Slot Machines Inc., Win or lose, you’ll walk away happy after a few pulls of a Delightful Slot Machine.

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UX Collective

AUGUST 19, 2023

Designing for engaging, delightful experiences in the age of AI Designers getting ready for the good fight There’s a lot of talk right now about the death of UX , the end of design as a discipline, and how the machines will replace us all. They’ll be replaced by designers using AI. What is delight?

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UX Collective

MAY 6, 2023

Neuroscience has significant practical applications in the field of digital product design. Neuroscience can help designers understand why people react the way they do to certain things and how they make decisions. Neuroscience can help designers understand why people react the way they do to certain things and how they make decisions.

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Inkbot Design

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

How AI Is Shaping UI/UX Design AI and machine learning are reshaping virtually every industry, and user interface (UI) and user experience (UX) design are no exception. Let's dive in and explore the many ways AI is impacting UI/UX. It's like having a design guru whispering tips in your ear. What's Next?

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Inkbot Design

OCTOBER 31, 2022

10 Ways to Identify User Friction & Improve UX Design Accordingly. Good designs are frictionless, allowing users to complete the task most efficiently. In this competitive digital world, creating a website that creates an optimal user experience has become a challenge for UX web designers.

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UX Collective

AUGUST 7, 2023

UX/AI designers will remind us of our humanity in the designs of the future Steven Spielberg’s movie reminded us of how far AI will bring us. UX/AI designers will remind us of our humanity in the designs of the future (image source: Yeo) I remembered a time when I was working with the airline cargo operations department.

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Inkbot Design

JANUARY 9, 2024

The 37 Best Design Books to Level Up Your Skills As a designer, expanding your knowledge is crucial for professional growth. With so many design books out there, it can take time to identify the true gems worth investing your time into reading. Read on for the cream of the crop regarding design literature.

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UX Collective

OCTOBER 15, 2023

This journey wasn’t just about finding the source of the aroma, but it was an exploration into the powerful role scent plays in shaping our experiences, especially in the world of business. The olfactory bulb, which processes scents, is directly connected to the amygdala and hippocampus, brain regions that handle emotions and memory[2].

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UX Collective

MARCH 1, 2023

This year emotional design will help designers to evoke powerful positive reactions from customers that are pleasant and memorable. We’ll also see advancements in artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) not only provide major boosts to the design process, but also to chatbot design and voice user interfaces (VUI).

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Inkbot Design

DECEMBER 6, 2023

User Experience Testing: How to Create Intuitive Interfaces User experience (UX) testing has become a crucial design process. With so many apps and websites competing for attention, UX testing helps ensure your product stands out for the right reasons. What Exactly is UX Testing? What Exactly is UX Testing?

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Inkbot Design

NOVEMBER 10, 2023

Welcome to the World of Modern Web Design The internet has come a long way since plain-text websites and bulbous fonts. These days, web design is an art form that balances aesthetics, user experience, and performance. So, what defines modern web design in 2024? With over 1.1

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Inkbot Design

AUGUST 11, 2023

Information Architecture in UX Design: 6 Tips On How To Build It Design is an ever-evolving field that requires continuous learning and growth. For designers who want to excel at their craft, it is imperative to constantly seek new knowledge, skills and perspectives. What is Information Architecture In UX?

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Inkbot Design

JULY 24, 2023

5 Best UX Books to Elevate Your Design Skills Hey there, fellow UX enthusiasts and aspiring design wizards! Are you ready to level up your user experience game and advance your design skills ? We've meticulously curated a list of the five best UX books guaranteed to propel your design skills to new dimensions.

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Inkbot Design

MAY 20, 2023

The Benefits of Design Education: Unleashing Creativity and Innovation Welcome to the intriguing world of design education , a field that beautifully blends creativity with practicality and imagination with technology. Design isn't just about aesthetics, or as the adage goes, “making things look pretty.”

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Inkbot Design

OCTOBER 18, 2022

User Experience Design: The Ultimate UX Guide. User experience design is creating a user-friendly and effective user interface. User experience designers also pay attention to the small details and features that make the user experience unique and memorable. What Is UX Design.

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UX Collective

OCTOBER 10, 2022

[link] The magic of product use is a mix of physical and digital interaction Our bodies are designed to respond to touch, not just to perceive the environment around us?—? Mary Halton in one of her blogs at TED We are sentient, experiential beings whose experiences are defined by our senses and emotions.

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UX Collective

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

These factors have enabled breakthroughs in generative AI, a subset of AI focusing on creating new content and solutions, and Large Language Models (LLMs), designed to interpret and generate human language. As UX professionals, it’s part of our role to tackle these topics, and I firmly believe that user research has never been more essential.

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Just Creative

DECEMBER 4, 2019

With so much content published these days, brands need to make personal and emotional connections with their intended audiences. Besides, wrapping marketing messages into a story that provokes an emotional response is something that your customers want you to do. Establish an emotional connection. Is it the way you do business?

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UX Collective

APRIL 3, 2023

Designing a SaaS marketplace or platform? Here are a few examples of how you can benefit from this research, especially for product designers and product managers: As inspiration on how other marketplaces have been designed (features, flows, interactions, copy, etc.) Want to understand the SaaS marketplace experience of today?

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UX Collective

MARCH 9, 2022

Cognitive biases are systematic errors in thinking that can lead UX professionals to make wrong design decisions. If UX professionals and design leaders wish to understand their customers and make effective business decisions, they should first understand their cognitive biases in customer data analysis and interpretation.

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Inkbot Design

JANUARY 24, 2024

Design Orientation – Valuing simple, intuitive, and cohesive product experiences based on design principles and paying attention to aesthetics and micro-interactions. Technical Know-How – Understanding technical possibilities, limitations, and tradeoffs to inform product decisions.

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Inkbot Design

MARCH 6, 2024

Healthcare Website Design: Creating Online Experiences Let's kick things off with a bracing dose of reality – your healthcare website is often the first interaction many patients will have with your brand. The stakes are high because effective healthcare website design isn't just about aesthetics or tech bells and whistles.

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UX Collective

MARCH 20, 2023

How to leverage emotional design in your process. The answer lies in emotional design. Emotional design refers to the way in which design elements evoke emotions in the user, making the experience of using a product more memorable and enjoyable. What is Emotional Design?

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Shillington

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

Are you wondering how you can start learning graphic design? Read on to learn more about the foundation of design as you begin your design journey, along with inspirational content to discover why taking a graphic design course could be beneficial for you and more! Want to get started building your own design library?

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UX Collective

AUGUST 23, 2021

Two methods to evaluate our motives when purposefully designing habit-forming products. And for those of us who design such habit-forming experiences, we need some guidelines and ways to routinely check our motives while creating products. I currently work as a product designer on a mobile app averaging about 9.5

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UX Collective

JULY 1, 2023

The path led to two doors, one of which opened onto the bar I was tending; a small gateway to the vegetarian delights on the upper floor. Amazon’s Dark UX Patterns — Expert View Amazon’s UX has always been efficient for purchasing items. Ooh, the feelings they’ve triggered; the emotions they’ve stirred up. “

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UX Collective

JULY 24, 2023

Think inside the box: How accessibility shapes digital product design How constraints ignite creativity, spark innovation, and why accessibility is a uniquely effective constraint everyone should embrace. Design is not art. These findings confirm what designers have instinctively been doing for a long time. Let’s see how!

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Inkbot Design

AUGUST 11, 2023

8 Growing Areas of Innovations in UX & UI Design User experience (UX) and user interface (UI) design constantly evolve as new technologies emerge. In the past few years, we have seen immense growth and innovation in the tools and techniques available to UX/UI designers.

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Inkbot Design

MARCH 2, 2024

Mobile App UX Design: The Ultimate Guide User experience (UX) design for mobile apps has become critical in recent years. This comprehensive guide will explore what makes for effective mobile app UX design. This comprehensive guide will explore what makes for effective mobile app UX design.

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UX Collective

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

Weekly curated resources for designers — thinkers and makers. Designers contribute to this system by tacitly encouraging people to accept the wholesale convenience of connectivity through deceptive intentions. Editor picks Design in the era of conspiratorial mirror worlds → The way we design in a divisive society.

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Inkbot Design

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

The Brand Gap: How to Bridge the Distance Between Business Strategy and Design. It's written by a designer, but it's different from the usual kind of design book that I usually read. It goes in-depth on branding topics and does a great job of explaining them to a non-designer audience. Top 10 Best Branding Books.

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Inkbot Design

JANUARY 31, 2024

Mastering Interaction Design: A Deep Dive into User Engagement Interaction design, often abbreviated as IxD, is a discipline that designs engaging user experiences and interfaces for digital products and services. What Exactly Is Interaction Design?

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UX Collective

JUNE 12, 2021

We expect excellence in visual and hardware design, yet we’ve become accustomed to the idea that our technology often naturally sounds annoying. We now design product sound on an unprecedented global scale. are so ingrained that they are often not recognized, even by experienced product designers. Why do we accept this?

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UX Collective

JUNE 18, 2021

image courtesy [link] As product/UX designers, we often work on new product features that will contribute to overall productivity growth. And oftentimes, we are part of the project from the beginning stages, thus we have a crucial role in the entire project. For that, let’s understand product value. Focus on the key objectives.

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