August 2020

Brian Dys

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Uncoordinated Stream of Design Deliverables

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I have often seen UX designers present bewildered development teams with an uncoordinated stream of design deliverables that define what they need to build—for example, Adobe Photoshop or XD screen designs, Figma prototypes, Confluence documents, and Excel spreadsheets, along with some hand-coded HTML and JavaScript. Plus, UX teams often seem oblivious or uncaring about the problems their use of multiple, disparate tools causes development teams. Indeed, development teams themselves are sometimes unaware that their job could be so much easier if UX teams used fewer tools and used their tools in a more coordinated manner.

Ritch Macefield in User Experience and the Big Picture, Part 1: Problems, Problems
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Rebelling Against Using the Intranet

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Ignoring or rebelling against using the intranet are learned behaviors that were reinforced by repeated poor experiences and infectious word of mouth between colleagues.  (Learned helplessness is a well-documented phenomenon: once somebody has been beaten down enough times, she gives up trying. That’s partly why we recommend against launching a bad UX, even with a plan to fix it later.) 

4 Noteworthy Intranet Design Trends in 2019 by Kara Pernice and Patty Caya
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The Person I’ve Been with the Longest

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Secondly, the person I’ve been with the longest — 50 years at this point — is my wife. We get along really fine, but we often don’t understand each other that well. We often laugh about how she tells me something and I hear and understand it, but later on, it turns out that what she meant and what I understood were completely different! And that’s very natural in people. Don Norman

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Learnings and Reminders

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The minimum size of an Active Area (AA)

Ideally, it is 48 x 48 pixels. However, there are elements that needs to be smaller in relation to other elements with it—with this consideration, we could go down until 32 x 32 pixels.

The cohesion between two UI elements

In order to show cohesion and relation between two UI elements, we could use proximity—place the element near each other. However, when there are more important considerations like if space won’t permit one element to be there, we could use motion to cue that those two elements belong together.

Recency

The elements in relation to the user’s “now”.

Contextual

Elements that are there only when you need it and also there when you thought you didn’t need it.

Numbers 3 and 4 fall under Relevance.

Outcomes Over Features

The outcome most teams are aiming for is a change in behaviour. The outcome you want will depend on your business or organisation: it might be selling more dog food, getting people to sign up to a monthly donation to your charity, or opting for mediation over court in their separation. Source

Shareability of Content

When deciding the number of characters an item could have, consider thinking about it being in other platforms.