UXperts May round-up
May 2019: 7 users share their digital struggles + Humanising the weather for the Met Office + 5 benefits of remote unmoderated research + more
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I wrote the book on user-friendly design. What I see today horrifies me
The world is designed against the elderly, writes Don Norman, 83-year-old author of the industry bible Design of Everyday Things and a former Apple VP.
By Don Norman at fastcompany.com
5 simple extensions to effectively run accessibility testing
Everyone knows the importance of accessibility and the impacts it has on business if not followed. Yet we tend to overlook and ignore which is bad for both the users and the business.
By Vamsi Batchu at uxdesign.cc
7 users share their struggles navigating the digital world
On the eighth Global Accessibility Awareness Day, we asked a couple of questions to seven members of our Accessibility Collective with different types of access needs.
By People for Research at medium.com
Designing sound and silence
Introducing Google’s first-ever public guidelines for designing product sounds. Investing in sound and haptic design is a great opportunity — not only to communicate more effectively, but to offset some of the demands we place on the visual domain, to another sensory channel.
By Conor O'Sullivan at Google Design
Humanising the weather for the Met Office
The Met Office is one of the UK’s most important national assets. It plays a strategically vital role in the provision of high quality forecasts and early warnings that enable the Government, industry and the UK public to prepare for and take action to protect assets, services and lives.
By Nomensa at nomensa.com
Improving your charity website? 6 UX redesign tips
Jonathan Scorer, PHASE Worldwide’s Communications and Partnerships Manager, lists the six top improvements the charity’s team worked on to make sure their online presence keeps users happy.
By Maria Santos at peopleforresearch.co.uk
TikTok breaks all the rules of app design, but it still works
Unreadable text, obscure and confusing icons and non-existent menus. TikTok, like Snapchat before it, is a brilliant design nightmare.
By Nicole Kobie at wired.co.uk
Start designing with goals in mind
Users goals vs. tasks and why understanding this dichotomy is key for successful product design.
By Paulo G. Latancia at uxdesign.cc
How to create a UX research plan
A detailed UX research plan helps you keep your overarching research goals in mind as you work through the logistics of a research project.
By David Renwick at optimalworkshop.com
5 benefits of running remote unmoderated research
At People for Research, we are advocates of using data to make informed decisions, so we have listed five reasons to support our thinking when it comes to surveys and online tasks.
By Vicky Karran at peopleforresearch.co.uk
The buzz about smart hives, big data & robot bees
Bees might look cute and fuzzy, but those leading the ‘bee tech’ industry mean business — and they are raising millions in funding. Meet the bee tech startups busy building smart hives.
By Kitty Knowles at sifted.eu
Whose fault is it when AI makes mistakes?
“Don’t get me wrong, I love machine learning and AI. But I don’t trust them blindly and neither should you, because the way you build effective and reliable ML/AI solutions is to force each solution to earn your trust.”
By Cassie Kozyrkov at towardsdatascience.com
