Results: 45 items

How to stop AI from killing your critical thinking
Examines the cognitive trade-offs of using AI at work and introduces a different kind of tool: one that encourages critical thinking, nudges reflection and actually helps you get smarter.
Topics: artificial intelligence, user advocacy, learning psychology…
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10 Usability Heuristics for User Interface Design
Jakob Nielsen's 10 general principles for interaction design. They are called "heuristics" because they are broad rules of thumb and not specific usability guidelines.
Topics: human centric design, user advocacy, experience strategy…
External linkThe Effortless Experience: Conquering the New Battleground for Customer Loyalty
The Effortless Experience lays out the four pillars of a low-effort customer experience, with robust data, insights and profiles.
Topics: experience strategy, user advocacy, human centric design…
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Mobile Learning and Student Retention
Student retention in open and distance learning (ODL) is comparatively poor to traditional education and, in some contexts, embarrassingly low.
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External linkQuiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking
At least one-third of the people we know are introverts. They are the ones who prefer listening to speaking; who innovate and create but dislike self-promotion; who favor working on their own over working in teams.
Topics: collaboration, user research, human centric design…
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The Impact of Intrinsic Motivation on Employee’s Job Satisfaction
Investigate the impact of intrinsic motivational factors on job satisfaction.
Topics: user research
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Guide Your Design With a 1-Page UX Strategy
The 1-page strategy doc is the most useful tool of all time. If you’re not taking the time to create them, odds are, you’re having a tough time getting your best work out the door.
Topics: experience strategy, designer
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Future by Design
How Design Day 2019 helps designers in a business evolve into businesspeople who Design
Topics: leadership, collaboration, human centric design…
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The 3-Click Rule for Navigation Is False
While it is important to keep key information easily accessible, the 3-click rule is an arbitrary rule of thumb that is not backed by data.
Topics: experience strategy, information architecture
External linkStack mirroring: Designing for code and coding for design
What modern design systems can learn by taking direction from how programming already functions.
Topics: collaboration, development
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The beginner's guide to contributing to a GitHub project
This is a guide to contributing to an open source project that uses GitHub.
Topics: collaboration, development
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Design Considerations to Increase Block-based Language Accessibility for Blind Programmers Via Blockly
This paper will discuss accessibility design issues in block-based programming environments, with a focus on the programming workflow.
Topics: accessibility, experience strategy, user research…
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Spearcons (Speech-Based Earcons) Improve Navigation Performance in Advanced Auditory Menus
The goal of this project is to evaluate a new auditory cue, which the authors call spearcons, in comparison to other auditory cues with the aim of improving auditory menu navigation
Topics: user advocacy, experience strategy, accessibility…
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Which Role Do You Need to Hire: Creative Director or Art Director?
Whether you’re seeking a creative director to manage an entire department or company, or an art director to oversee the aesthetic direction of a project...
Topics: leadership, collaboration, experience strategy…
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Cross-Disciplinary Collaboration and Learning
Complex environmental problem solving depends on cross-disciplinary collaboration among scientists.
Topics: leadership, collaboration
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Big Spaceship: Ready to Go Big?
To explore the alignment of organizational design, human resources, culture, and competitive strategy in a growth-oriented and human-capital-intensive company.
Topics: collaboration, leadership
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Machines like me
Machines Like Me occurs in an alternative 1980s London. McEwan’s subversive and entertaining new novel poses fundamental questions: what makes us human.
Topics: machine learning, artificial intelligence, human centric design…
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Putting Some Emotion into Your Design
Designs which tap into the user’s emotions are considered to do more than just respond to their stated needs and provide a greater level of user experience.
Topics: user advocacy, learning psychology, human centric design…
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The Power of Autonomous Teams
Designing at scale is one of the greatest challenges faced by product teams today. See how Atlassian does it.
Topics: ux writing, experience strategy, designer…
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Applying Gestalt Principles to Animated Visualizations of Network Data
The aim is to assist the user in understanding the structural and visual changes that have occurred in the layout. Results of that work are described here with relevant examples.
Topics: experience strategy, information architecture, human centric design…
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Fitts' law
"A predictive model of human movement primarily used in human–computer interaction... [a] scientific law predicts the time required to rapidly move to a target area"
Topics: human centric design, designer
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How abstractions can help designers craft powerful experiences
"...considering a product’s cultural equity—its noneconomic and nonfunctional benefits—and how that influences a user’s state of being"
Topics: ideation, design thinking, human centric design…
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Knowledge, Networks, and Knowledge Networks: A Review and Research Agenda
"...social relationships and the networks these relationships constitute are influential in explaining the processes of knowledge creation, diffusion, absorption, and use"
Topics: learning psychology, user research, information architecture…
External linkAI Accountability Essential Training
Artificial intelligence (AI) offers businesses the potential for a dramatic increase in functionality and profitability, but it can also spark an array of complex ethical, legal, and social challenges.
Topics: human centric design
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Why Ford Hired a Furniture Maker as CEO
In the car of the future, you may care more about how the driver’s seat swivels than how the engine purrs.
Topics: designer, human centric design
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Building a Visual Language
AirBnB - Behind the scenes of our new design system
Topics: prototyping, designer, human centric design…
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The Essential Elements of Digital Literacies
What are ‘digital literacies’? Why are they important? How can I develop them both personally and in other people?
Topics: learning psychology
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A Patterns Based Approach for Design of Educational Technologies.
"...most of the educational technologies today face two core challenges in this context: (i) lack of instructional design as a basis (ii) lack of support for a variety of instructional designs.
Topics: information architecture, learning psychology
External linkEthically Aligned Design, First Edition
The IEEE Global Initiative has launched Ethically Aligned Design: A Vision for Prioritizing Human Well-being with Autonomous and Intelligent Systems
Topics: experience strategy, user advocacy
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Lessons Learned from Chinese Education Startups
However, in China, the transformation of education is already well underway, with a fast-growing ecosystem built around lifelong learning.
Topics: learning psychology, user research
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The value of deep work is your only real value
"... it’s the battle to engage in deep work. Proper, meaningful, in flow, immersed work that delivers the thing we are paid to deliver, new value for our agencies and clients."
Topics: designer, experience strategy
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Yes, AI Will Replace Designers
AI will become a design partner and tool that designers can use to meet ever-evolving workplace demands.
Topics: experience strategy, development, designer…
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How we accidentally invented Job Stories
"Moving from what people want to why they want it"
Topics: experience strategy, information architecture, designer…
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Calm Technology Principles and Patterns for Non-Intrusive Design
This practical book explores the concept of calm technology, a method for smoothly capturing a user’s attention only when necessary, while calmly remaining in the background most of the time
Topics: experience strategy, user advocacy, human centric design…
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Calm Tech UX & Inclusive Design Principles
"Are we forced to adapt to technology, or is technology adapting to us?"
Topics: user advocacy, user research, human centric design…
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Take the Time to Use Fewer Words
"tl;dr: If a user experience needs an explanation, something is fundamentally broken."
Topics: experience strategy, information architecture, human centric design…
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Kill Your Personas
"...persona spectrums focus our attention on a range of customer motivations, contexts, abilities, and circumstances."
Topics: user advocacy, user research, human centric design…
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Man is to Computer Programmer as Woman is to Homemaker?
"...how blatantly sexist the embeddings are and hence risk introducing biases of various types into real-world systems."
Topics: development, human centric design, artificial intelligence…
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Practical Tips for User Journey Mapping
This story covers practical guides that will help you get the most from experience mapping.
Topics: user research, human centric design, information architecture…
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An Ai Pattern Language
"It is important to examine long-term hypothetical possibilities, but equally urgent ...to examine real trends that will be realized within this decade. "
Topics: artificial intelligence, machine learning
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Tips for writing good use cases.
Ultimately, use cases are about clearly communicating detailed information to a very diverse audience and reaching the goal of creating successful development projects.
Topics: ux writing
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Gods and Robots: Myths, Machines, and Ancient Dreams of Technology
"The fascinating untold story of how the ancients imagined robots and other forms of artificial life."
Topics: History
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Mindset: The New Psychology of Success
"...every area of human endeavor can be dramatically influenced by how we think about our talents and abilities."
Topics: experience strategy, learning psychology, design thinking…
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The Nine Pillars of Successful Web Teams
The competencies a team must incorporate to successfully deliver Web products, based on observation and experience.
Topics: experience strategy, development, human centric design…
External linkMachines like me
Machines Like Me occurs in an alternative 1980s London. McEwan’s subversive and entertaining new novel poses fundamental questions: what makes us human.
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