Design | Experience
For researchers, no matter what experience level, synthesizing data can be a long and tedious process. Thankfully, there are tools that can help speed up the process, to get to better insights, faster. To better understand the synthesis process, this blog post will be broken down into smaller pieces: what is synthesis, affinity mapping, tagging, and writing insights.
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a practical guide on when to do qualitative research, the different methods to collect data, and tips for choosing the right method or combination of methods for UX research. By Allison Grayce Marshall. #ux #research
https://www.notably.ai/blog/how-to-choose-the-right-qualitative-research-methods
We have increasingly little knowledge about what database systems were trained on or how they were evaluated, especially for the most powerful systems being released as products,” says Alex Tamkin, a Stanford University PhD student whose work focuses on large language models.
https://www.wired.com/story/chatbots-got-big-and-their-ethical-red-flags-got-bigger
Great design is born out of great research. You’ve conducted research, analyzed the data, & have synthesized it into some great insights to share.
Now what?
Those insights are only as great as how effectively they’re communicated.
One way to communicate research findings with team or client is with a UX research report, but far too often they’re locked away … Read the rest
Explore the traditional associations of different colors and learn how to use them in the right contexts
Although we can make general assumptions about how colors affect moods and their symbolic meanings, our memories, cultures, religions, and environment have a substantial impact on how we perceive individual colors. For example, while in most Western cultures, brides wear white dresses as a symbol … Read the rest
Good design is subjective and can’t necessarily be measured. However Rams attempted to express what he believed to be the most important principles for design. These principles have become iconic and have inspired designers across the world. As good design cannot be measured in a finite way he set about expressing the ten most important principles for what he considered … Read the rest
5 prototyping techniques to help get message across without getting lost in the weeds.
https://uxdesign.cc/how-i-prototype-to-communicate-not-complicate-in-figma-90040bc3cf1e
Let’s start with my favourite one that will surely blow mind. So Figma becomes really powerful when you combine auto layout, interactive components and smart animate. Think about it, auto layout will automatically fill up any freed space. So if you are creating interactive components with … Read the rest
The many deaths of UX design
How UX was proclaimed dead (again), what do AI and Elon Musk have to do with it, and what poses a real treat to the discipline of design.
https://uxdesign.cc/the-many-deaths-of-ux-design-85a255e3676f