Writings filed under “UX”
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Writing For The Web 🖊️
Research shows that people don't read websites, they scan. Make webpages easy to scan so that visitors can quickly find the information they're interested in.
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Performant Sites Are Fast 🚀
Site performance is not just about satisfying visitor patience, a fast site is good for SEO and better for the environment. Find out how websites can be made more performant.
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UX Links 🔗
User Experience as a profession has grown exponentially. Reflecting this is the multitude of websites dedicated to UX practice. This page serves as a resource list.
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Collaboration In UX Design 🤝
Collaboration is an important life skill, especially important for a UX practitioner. UX is about people and relationships and as such collaboration is at the core of the profession.
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User-Centric Design: Making Websites Good for People 💖
A focus on User Experience ensures that websites are not just visually appealing but also functional, intuitive, and tailored to user needs.
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Beginnings 🏁
Beginnings are tough! There is uncertainty, unfamiliarity, self-doubt, a little excitement. Beginnings can set the tone, they are first impressions, they can last, they are as important as endings!
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The Need For Structure 🫠
Creating user experiences is a practice of guiding users to reaching their goals, leading them, helping them, making things explicit, spoon feeding them!
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Re-mediation 🗞️
Investigating what creativity means, how it can be balanced with analytics and the needs commercialisation. Finally, using cut-ups there is creative re-mediation of Subterranean Homesick Blues, a song by Bob Dylan.
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Twitch-ing 🎲
A little study into the possible ideation and prototyping processes undertaken by Twitch creatives in the creation of their re-branding game.
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Reflective Practice & Reflective Domains 🪩
Through the insights of reflective practice we can create explicit and concrete plans of action, to work better, to work deliberately, to feel better about our work and ourselves!
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SMART Goals 💡
When you goal is clear, life is beautiful. When goals are unclear it is not possible to be SMART. The first aspect of SMART goals is "Specific", the opposite of unclear!
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Paper Prototype 🧻
Paper prototypes are a very quick, useful and inexpensive way to communicate an idea or story, user interactions and journey.
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Vectors Are Free 💸
Version Control (VC) is central to good working practices within the design and technology industries.
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Personal Branding 🎭
A personal brand is what people say about you when you are not in the room. Branding is the activity of building a brand.
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Looking Ahead 👁️
In this reflection we look ahead to the next study module, UX Research, looking ahead in the context of where we have come from.
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Introduction to HCI 👩 🖥️
An introduction to HCI, Human Computer Interaction, the study of the relationship between people and technology.
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Research Through Design 🧐
Research Through Design is performing research while in the process of designing, creating, and delivering a product or service. Design is not a bolt-on aspect, rather it leads the research process.
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Technology Research Topics 🔬
Technology is ubiquitous and developing faster than ever. Some technology research topic ideas in 2022.
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Definitions & Concepts 🤔
Definitions and concept ideas relating to research, technology, and psychology.
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Developing A Research Question 🙋
The Research Question (RQ) is often considered as the most important component of research. It is like a guiding light, pin-pointing what you want to find out, providing clear focus and purpose.
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The Art & Science of Web Development & Design 💻
Discover how aesthetics blend with functionality in web development and design, creating unique digital experiences.
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