June 2020: UXperts round-up
Preparing your digital experience for an eventual return to scale + designing accessible data visualisations + Online/offline UX events you can still attend in 2020 + more
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That awful UI vs. UX ketchup meme
The infamous UI vs. UX ketchup bottle meme makes its rounds in the tech community every few months or so, and many UI and UX designers resent this oversimplified meme.
By Katherine Fairbanks at uxdesign.cc (UX Collective)
Three key insights for improved UX in healthcare
Think of the times you’ve wandered around a healthcare setting. Whether you were on the way to meet a best friend’s newborn, dropping flowers off for a post-surgery pick-me-up, or preparing to navigate the patient experience yourself, chances are your anxieties were running high.
By Elliott Grigg & Bridget Noonan at august.com.au
25 usability terms every UX designer should know
Learning these usability terms will be helpful especially for the new designers to create a shared understanding among the team members. It will also enable the stakeholders to provide proper and constructive feedback instead of vague and not so helpful ones. These are not just terms — some of them are principles, methods and processes.
By Ajayraj at uxplanet.org (uxplanet.org)
The UX efficient frontier
“Designers: we are not our users. We are even less our expert users. I’ve seen many candidates forget this important detail during our design interviews.”
By Morgane Peng at uxdesign.cc (UX Collective)
Remote research by default
Instead of focusing on all the ways remote research fails to replicate the face-to-face experience, think about the possibilities it opens up.
By Chris Marmo at medium.com Paper Giant
Online/offline UX events you can still attend in 2020
A list of UX, design and user research events that have moved into the online realm and conferences that have been postponed to dates later in the year.
By Maria Santos at peopleforresearch.co.uk
Preparing your digital experience for an eventual return to scale
No matter what our future holds, there will be the opportunity of some form to return to scale for organisations that have been seriously affected by the coronavirus. Perhaps your organisation is already planning its next steps and how it can return to scale.
By Simon Norris & Alex Metcalf at nomensa.com
UX audiobooks, podcasts & other things to listen to
“If, like me, you’ve exhausted your record collection, you’ve probably turned to podcasts as a form of escapism. Once you are done with comedy, crime stories and news, it’s worth digging deeper into areas that can help to improve your career.”
By Jason Stockwell at medium.com
An intro to designing accessible data visualisations
Accessibility should always be a focus when designing products, and the same goes when working with data visualisations and graphs. First and foremost because the full product should be accessible, but also because data visualisations often contain important information that users have to act upon.
By Sarah Fossheim at fossheim.io
Designing public services in a user-centred way in a time of crisis
In order to make transformation more effective and beneficial in the long term, user-centred design must come into play, says Sam Menter, co-founder and Managing Director of Mace & Menter.
By Sam Menter at openaccessgovernment.org
5 tools to design for digital confidence
Today—whatever day you’re reading this—more than a million people will come online for the first time. Tomorrow and the day after, a million more will follow. A million people whose first exposure to the digital world is usually through their phone.
By Jason Fund & George Joseph at ideo.com (IDEO)
