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10 Intangibles of Design

  • Design, Human factors, Personal and Professional Development, Psychology and Human Behavior, Things UX People Like, UX Education, UX Magazine, Working With Stakeholders

Tenets that go beyond disciplines and technical skills.

 
Article by Nate Schloesser
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10 Intangibles of Design
  • The process of becoming and being a UX designer is rather complex. 
  • The article proves that the combination of some intangibles makes the difference between an average, dissatisfied designer and a successful designer.
  • Transcend disciplines and technical proficiency with these 10 intangibles of design:
    • Always be valuable.
    • Other people’s agenda matter.
    • Always bring an artifact.
    • Design requires tradeoffs.
    • Inquiry over advocacy.
    • Design like you are right, listen like you are wrong.
    • Avoid paralysis by analysis.
    • Move between abstract and concrete.
    • Your resilience will be rewarded.
    • Seek to master your craft more fully.
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To Keep a User, Sometimes You Have to Let Them Go

  • Accessibility, Behavioral Science, Customer Experience, Design, Design Theory, Empathy, Employee Experience, Psychology and Human Behavior, Technology, Technology for the Common Good, Usability, UX Education, UX Magazine, UX World Changing Ideas
Article by Jesse Weaver
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To Keep a User, Sometimes You Have to Let Them Go
  • Assuming every problem is product-related drives a product-centric approach to fixing them but problems are more complex than simple fixes to content or features.
  • The author uncovers 2 ideas:
    • Not all cancels are created equal
    • Think: User-centered retention
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When Growth Feels Like Failure

  • Behavioral Science, Customer Experience, Design, Design Theory, Emotion, Human factors, Psychology and Human Behavior, Team Dynamics, Usability, UX Education, UX Magazine

3 key things to keep in mind on the way to becoming an influential strategic player

Article by Lindsey Wallace
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When Growth Feels Like Failure
  • UX researchers tend to be people who like to see the impact of their work. However, as researchers climb their career ladders these stories often start to fall apart, causing self-doubt.
  • The authors talks about a few key things to keep in mind on the way to becoming an influential strategic player:
    1. Ripple effects are part of impact.
    2. The bigger the ship the slower the turn
    3. Ownership becomes communal
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There Is No Transformation Without Integration

  • Behavioral Science, Customer Experience, Design, Design Theory, Emotion, Empathy, Neuroscience, Psychology and Human Behavior, Technology, Technology for the Common Good, Usability, UX Education, UX Magazine, UX World Changing Ideas

*and accelerators, incubators, studios, leadership programs, etc.

Article by Nick Scott
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There Is No Transformation Without Integration
  • The article covers the whole process of integrating transformation
  • The author unpacks the following ideas:
    • The Journey Outward
    • Campbell’s Model of the hero’s journey
    • Moving from mythological adventure to practical deed
    • Integrating a transformative experience
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Will Conversational AI and Experience Design Revolutionize the Behavioral Sciences?

  • Artificial Intelligence, Augmented Reality, Automotive, Behavioral Science, Customer Experience, Defining AI, Design, Design Theory, Neuroscience, Psychology and Human Behavior, Technology, Usability, UX Education, UX Magazine, UX World Changing Ideas

One author’s thoughts on progress of behavioral sciences over the last 50 years and ways conversational AI and experience design revolutionize them.

Article by Daniel Lametti
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Will Conversational AI and Experience Design Revolutionize the Behavioral Sciences?
  • The article covers:
    • Studies and surveys on behavioral sciences conducted over the last 50 years
    • The role of conversational AI in the modern world and its perks
    • Ways conversational AI and experience design might revolutionize behavioral sciences
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How Good User Experience Design Can Help to Solve Some of the Most Troubling Matters in Our Relationship with the Internet

  • Accessibility, Behavioral Science, Customer Experience, Design, Design Theory, Healthcare, Human factors, Psychology and Human Behavior, Technology, Things UX People Like, Usability, UX Education, UX Magazine

Technology dependency, a shortening of the attention span and the overwhelming feeling of being always on in todays society are some of the matters we need to solve in our relationship with the Internet. We are here to create valuable, relevant experiences and it seems that it is more needed than ever.

Article by Robin Fransz
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How Good User Experience Design Can Help to Solve Some of the Most Troubling Matters in Our Relationship with the Internet
  • The Internet has helped us advance significantly in various directions but it also shortened our attention span and gave us the overwhelming feeling of being always on.
  • The author brings up the problem of the Internet impact on people’s lives and believes bad design to be the reason.
  • The author considers Netflix losing subscribers and Disney+’s Obi-Wan Kenobi not getting the expected iMDB score good examples of bad UX design.
  • The problem of being overwhelmed, dependent on technology and even bigger problems like the depression it can cause can be solved by focussing on good user experience design.
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