Search or navigation? How familiarity affects naming and behavior
In cognitive psychology research, familiarity will cause people to use different names for an object, which may explain e-commerce users’ search or browsing behaviors.Do you know what’s in the cup in this picture?Photo by Ke Vin on UnsplashThis is the alcoholic drink — a Mojito!
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User Experience is … providing game changing experience visions
How experience design thinking can influence organisations, corporate visions, strategies and build of products through experience visions.
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A brief history on writing: A forgotten technology
How the challenges we face in today’s digital age can be traced back to one of the most significant yet underrated innovations of all time—writing.Ernest Hemingway writing. Image: WortmanWhen you think “technology”, writing seldom comes to mind. Yet, the creation of writing remains one of the single..
Adding a social layer across the web
How adding a social layer across the entire web can make it more delightful
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UX and Human Factors: How to use psychology to empower the user
Co-Authors: Cat Hodges and Kay Stanney
Human Factors within User Experience DesignUser Experience (UX) is an extensive interdisciplinary field that encompasses many aspects of design and engineering. When you hear the term “UX,” you may relate it only to applications and software, but it’s actually ..
Affordances and signifiers
Creating designs, components and interactions that make sense to users
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The no-mouse challenge: Taking the keyboard navigation red pill
Not everyone out there relies on a mouse or a trackpad when using their computers.A remake of the iconic scene from The Matrix, when Morpheus holds up two extended hands, palms facing up, respectively holding a blue and a red jelly bean.We’ve all been kicking off 2021 in a myriad of ways so far, and..
Creativity is not imagination. It’s realisation.
What determines creativity in humans? Gain perspective and increased self-awareness through a historical and value-based analysis.
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How to create stronger case studies
Step off of the design portfolio assembly line with some critical thinking
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Eminence and why you should actually work for it
Image of quote — Expose yourselfEminence or exposure is this important “thing” that often gets overseen. Designers and non-designers often think they don’t have time or that they have nothing special to offer. Working on yourself or your personal brand can actually be a daunting task, a blocker for ..
