I'm excited that FOSS Backstage '24 (4-6 Mar 2023) will include a separate day entirely focused on #UXDesign !!! The #FOSS community needs to discuss #UX more and this is a great chance to do that.
Please reach out to me with any questions. We're looking for short 20 min presentations on how your team navigates UX issues. If you're doing #UX in #OpenSource please consider!
BTW, We're looking for #FOSS projects that have been making progress incorporating #UX into their process, e.g. working with your communities, prioritizing features, user testing, attracting #UXDesign, and likely many more topics.
Companies like @penpot, Audacity (@tantacrul), Joomla (@crystaljjlee ) and I hope many others will consider sharing their experience.
What other projects would anyone here recommend? @FOSSBackstage
Earlier this year, I shared a post about my work on the Xbox Game Pass project at Riot Games and the role UX played in business development - now join me to explore how we used UX and communications techniques to build a shared design vision for a global working group of over 300 cross-disciplinary folks across game, platform, and publishing teams! There are takeaways for folks building any kind of technology together. #uxDesign#gameDev#tech
For video meetings, could the software edit my eyes so other attendees see me looking at them (directly at my laptop's camera instead of slightly lower at my laptop's screen), in the interest of better #interpersonal communication through eye contact?
I wrote a blog post on the 'check your answers pattern' used on GOV.UK.
Everybody knows they're good for making sure the information you get is accurate, but I wanted to talk in a bit more detail about an often overlooked secondary function we discovered. Giving the user breathing space in high stakes situations!
Lets talk sales, costs, failure demand and morals.
I appreciate monsieur @stragu trying to advocate with me for reasonable, "works out of the box" #UXdesign improvements in #LibreOffice by default, amidst the pushback we often tend to get 🧐
The ribbon-like "tabbed notebookbar" toolbars interface's #UX#design really would benefit from some smarter layout algorithm rather than "users should need to know to dig deep into some static customization settings" https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=157580
New #AI Podcast Alert! I had the pleasure of speaking with Zack Naylor, CEO of #UXresearch firm Aurelius, about the future of AI and user research - but I think this podcast may be helpful to anyone developing curiosity about AI as we spend time digging into the basics with Star Trek style metaphor to help you build a mental model for what’s going on under the hood. Then we get into the risks and opportunities for the field. #uxDesign#tech#LLM
Random UX thought: sometimes I want to default to negative language, like warning someone about the downsides or that something isn't supported. Depending on context, though, you might want to turn it around and see how you can frame it positively!
For example, instead of "This version of the app is outdated and not supported," can you share, "There is a new version with new features and updates! Get it here"?
This is common in customer-facing language for companies (don't admit fault, turn things into a positive, etc.) which if done well can be a good experience. Of course you don't want to go overboard (cough Apple cough) and be condescending, but it's something to keep in mind in your app's copy, as well.
When you make things, you're always "designing" whether you know it or not. How you choose to word things matters!
Mastodontes, ya mismo termino el curso de UX, y tengo que hacer un último proyecto que luego podré poner en mi portfolio para buscar empleo. El proyecto tiene que ser una aplicación de interés social, y se me había ocurrido diseñar una aplicación orientada a autistas adultos :neurodiversity:, en especial a los que, como yo, hemos sido diagnosticados bien entrada en la adultez y aún estamos descubriendo cómo funcionamos realmente. Siento que hay muchos recursos para niños y para familias de niños autistas, pero pocos para adultos. Así que si sois autistas o sabéis mucho del tema, me gustaría que me digáis qué funciones os gustaría que tuviera una aplicación (tanto web como móvil) que os pueda ayudar o ser útil en el día a día, ¡os leo para captar ideas! :acnh_flourish:
God bless #stablediffusion. Look at this potential rework of the X-Box interface. It's beautiful. Someone get this to Microsoft. @shanselman put this in front of your work friends. Someone get Steve Balmer on the line. This is important. Some art designer please fine tune this with some real icons and fonts and stuff. This could be your magnum opus.
Just finished "Death by Screens" by Ben Sauer and it is excellent. The main subject is how to do #UXDesign presentations but underneath, it's full of extremely helpful advice to help you write better, think better, and work better with others. This is a book I'm going to recommend many times. https://bensauer.net/deathbyscreens/ #UX
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"Les concepteurs d'interfaces qui ont éliminé le système de fichiers de la conscience des usagers au nom de la simplicité ont ruiné le monde, et sont coupables moralement d'avoir perverti les esprits des enfants, qui sont incapables d'aborder les défis d'aujourd'hui du fait d'un choix vendu comme au service de l'usager, alors que la motivation ultime en était le contrôle d'une clientèle affaiblie."
🤔 Did you know #SwiftUI has container views called Form and Section? I put them to use in @judoapp to recreate (part of) the Apple Settings app with a working wi-fi selector and Airplane Mode toggle.
Looking at agile through the eyes of a designer, it’s easy to spot the problem: the dogma of shipping small stuff fast so that you can gather feedback on what to do next more quickly. Agilists believe that finished software is not only the best way to deliver value, but also the best way to learn and iterate.