Ux Designer Quotes

When they first built the University of California at Irvine they just put the buildings in. They did not put any sidewalks, they just planted grass. The next year, they came back and put the sidewalks where the trails were in the grass. Perl is just that kind of language. It is not designed from first principles. Perl is those sidewalks in the grass.

Intuitive design is how we give the user new superpowers.

Design is the beauty of turning constraints into advantages.

To clarify, *add* data.

If you think user research is expensive, you should look at the cost of building the wrong thing.

Each design is a proposed business solution — a hypothesis. Your goal is to validate the proposed solution as efficiently as possible by using customer feedback.

Immature product teams make the same mistake: They want users to understand their products but refuse to understand their users.

My belief in life is that you need only three things to get to the top- Talent, Ambition and Initiative.

Effective gamification is a combination of game design, game dynamics, behavioral economics, motivational psychology, UX/UI (User Experience and User Interface), neurobiology, technology platforms, as well as ROI-driving business implementations.

Intuitive design happens when current knowledge is the same as the target knowledge.

UX DESIGN IS MBA REVERSE ENGINEERED.

Many people make their way to user experience by crossing over from an adjacent field. These crossovers are the people who are carrying UX forward, taking it to new levels and new organizations.

Hidden in the physical work space, in the user's words, and in the tools they use are the beautiful gems of knowledge that can create revolutionary, breakthrough products or simply fix existing, broken products. People do strange things - unexpected things - and being there to witness and record these minute and quick moments of humanity is simply invaluable

When your number one job is serving the needs of users, and some external force tries to divert your efforts to some other goal, your number one job now changes to removing that external force. It doesn’t matter if that external force has more economic or political power than you do. Your job is clear.

Design only what you need. Deliver it quickly. Create enough customer contact to get meaningful feedback fast.

Lean UX is a transparent process that not only reveals what designers do but encourages participation from everyone on the team.

Motivated people build better stuff.

Users' problems are design opportunities.

Good design decisions are rarely guessed.

Our goal is not to create a deliverable or a feature: it’s to positively affect customer behavior or change in the world — to create an outcome.

It’s hard to convince people that the design, UX, and brand are the cake, but technology is the oven. Electricity is expensive.

I think it's more accurate to think of aesthetics as a key ingredient in a recipe, as opposed to the icing on the cake.

In most cases, having and using a fantastic machine learning algorithm is less important than deploying a well-designed user experience (UX) for your products.

I have come to the conclusion that great customer service is finding an opportunity to express humanity.

Product requirements conversations must then be grounded in business outcomes: what are we trying to achieve by building this product? This rule holds true for design decisions as well. Success criteria must be redefined and roadmaps must be done away with. In their place, teams build backlogs of hypotheses they’d like to test and prioritize them based on risk, feasibility, and potential success.

UX strategy is the process that should be started first, before the design or development of a digital product begins. It’s the vision of a solution that needs to be validated with real potential customers to prove that it’s desired in the marketplace. Although UX design encompasses numerous details such as visual design, content messaging, and how easy it is for a user to accomplish a task, UX strategy is the “Big Picture.” It is the high-level plan to achieve one or more business goals under conditions of uncertainty.

Often people will use their own conceptual models of the world to determine the perceived causal relationship between the thing being blamed and the result. The word perceived is critical: the causal relationship does not have to exist; the person simply has to think it is there.

Companies say they value great design. But they assume that to do great design they need a rock star designer. But great design doesn’t live inside designers. It lives inside your users’ heads. You get inside your users heads by doing good UX research: research that provides actionable and testable insights into users’ needs.

a new breed of designers is developing brand-new techniques under the banner of Lean User Experience (Lean UX). They recognize that the customer archetype is a hypothesis, not a fact. The customer profile should be considered provisional until the strategy has shown via validated learning that we can serve this type of customer in a sustainable way.

As entrepreneurs, product managers, developers, and designers, we love to spend our time coming up with cool new feature ideas and designing great user experiences. However, those items sit at the top two levels of the pyramid of user needs. First and foremost, the product needs to be available when the user wants to use it. After that, the product's response time needs to be fast enough to be deemed adequate. The next tier pertains to the product's quality: Does it work as it is supposed to? We then arrive at the feature set tier, which deals with functionality. At the top, we have user experience (UX) design, which governs how easy—and hopefully how enjoyable—your product is to use. As with Maslow's hierarchy, lower-level needs have to be met before higher-level needs matter.

As good architects know, seemingly arbitrary decisions, such as where to locate the bathrooms, will have subtle influences on how the people who use the building interact. Every trip to the bathroom creates an opportunity to run into colleagues, for better or for worse. A good building is not merely attractive, it also works. As we shall see, small and apparently insignificant details can have major impacts on people's behaviour. A good rule of thumb is to assume that everything matters. In many cases, the power of these small details come from focusing the attention of users in a particular direction. A wonderful example of this principle comes from, of all places, the men's rooms at Schiphol airport in Amsterdam. There, the authorities etched the image of a black housefly into each urinal. It seems that men usually do not pay much attention to where they aim, which can create a bit of a mess. But if they see a target, attention, and therefore accuracy, are much increased. According to the man who came up with the idea, it works wonders... Etchings reduced spillage by 80%. The insight that everything matters can be both paralysing and empowering.

UX design isn't a new field. But sometimes new approaches lead to new perspectives.

Here is the worst possible way for you to try to figure out if your idea solves somebody’s problem: Ask them. The vast majority of entrepreneurs seem to think that explaining their concept in detail to a few people and then asking whether it’s a good idea constitutes validation. It does not.

the book of 944 design guidelines for text-based user interfaces of bygone days that Smith and Mosier of Mitre Corporation developed for the U.S. Air Force (Mosier & Smith, 1986; Smith & Mosier, 1986).

Trying new things constantly and then abandoning them without further study or work is not iterating. That’s flailing.

Each design is a proposed business solution — a hypothesis. Your goal is to validate the proposed solution as efficiently as possible by using customer feedback.

The most important driver of user satisfaction is usefulness, which is largely reflected in the interaction design. The interaction design has to be incorporated at the deepest level of the software architecture and it is often the most expensive to change late in the process.

There is one more reason to use stories in UX, it's simply because the power of stories allows us to see the world through a new lens. One of the hardest things to do is to understand a task, context, or experience as someone else does. But once you see a design problem from the new perspective, we are halfway home to a solution.

And here’s the bigger truth: Whether you find yourself all alone or in a team of like-minded folks, we are all individuals with a unique voice, opinions, and diverse experiences that define us. We are all a UX Team of One. My challenge to you: Draw upon this diversity—magical things happen at the intersection of seemingly unrelated ideas. Don’t let a job title define you. Do what makes sense, not what process dictates. And most of all, never stop playing and learning. If we can all hang on for the ride, there is no limit to the places we’ll go! —Stephen P. Anderson, author of Seductive Interaction Design

User interface design is like football. Everybody in the company feels confident and keen to comment on the designs.

like qualitative and quantitative research, historical references, and subject matter interviews — help UX designers to discover unique problems for a specific set of target customers.

wireframes in tools such as Adobe Illustrator, OmniGraffle and Microsoft Visio. Originally, these

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beware the "slash"—a job listing that advertises for a UX/UI designer betrays a lack of appreciation for the value of UX, and suggests that the organisation is probably actually looking for a UI designer.

Designing memorable experiences is easier said than done. Most importantly, you need empathy and understanding for your fellow human. It’s the love for mankind that ultimately makes UX interesting.

UX designers have to constantly learn about human psychology, interaction design, information architecture and user research techniques, just to name a few, in order to create the right solutions to a user’s problems.

Nobody tells this to people who are beginners...All of us who do creative work, we get into it because we have good taste. But there is this gap. For the first couple years you make stuff, it’s just not that good. It’s trying to be good, it has potential, but it’s not. But your taste, the thing that got you into the game, is still killer. And your taste is why your work disappoints you. A lot of people never get past this phase, they quit. Most people I know who do interesting, creative work went through years of this. We know our work doesn’t have this special thing that we want it to have. We all go through this. And if you are just starting out or you are still in this phase, you gotta know it’s normal and the most important thing you can do is do a lot of work.” – Ira Glass Be

When you design you imagine, refine, and communicate something that currently doesn’t exist. The creation process is often unpredictable, messy, confusing, and ambiguous up until the last moment. To become a UX Designer you must learn to embrace the beauty of ambiguity. To come up with something new the process of creation has to be unclear, at least for a little while. You must learn to trust that your process, methods, experience, and judgement will eventually help you find your way out of the woods.

Enterprises that use design thinking and user experience (UX) design strategically to delight customers at each step of their interaction with the organization have thrived: research shows companies which apply UX design in this way experience faster growth and higher revenues.2

Lean UX is the practice of bringing the true nature of a product to light faster, in a collaborative, cross-functional way that reduces the emphasis on thorough documentation while increasing the focus on building a shared understanding of the actual product experience being designed.

You might also want to read Index of UX guidelines for Windows Store apps and Design Windows Store apps using Blend for Microsoft Visual Studio 2013 to learn more about how to implement a great user experience.

Here’s the cold, hard truth: ideas are cheap. Product follow-through is where the money is spent and made.

Ask Open-Ended Questions When you start to ask questions, never give the participant a chance to simply answer yes or no. The idea here is to ask questions that start a discussion. These questions are bad for starting a discussion: “Do you think this is cool?” “Was that easy to use?” These questions are much better: “What do you think of this?” “How’d that go?

error tolerance, according to Whitney Quesenberry, requires: Restricting opportunities to do the wrong thing. Make links/buttons clear and distinct; keep language clear and simple;

The best way to support ease of learning is to design systems that match a user’s existing mental models. A mental model is simply a representation of something in the real world and how it is done from the user’s perspective. It’s why virtual buttons look a lot like real buttons – we know that we push buttons;

When you’re designing for usability, thinking about utility is important, too. While usability is concerned with making functions easy and pleasant to use, utility is about providing functions that users need in the first place.

4. Field Studies This is actually a number of techniques under a broad heading. It’s all about going out and observing users ‘in the wild’ so that we can measure behavior in the context where users actually use a product. Field studies include ethnographic research, interviews, observations, and contextual enquiry.

5. Usability Testing A firm favorite that has a long and prestigious history in UX research, usability testing is the observation of users trying to carry out tasks with a product. Such testing can focus on a single process, or be much wider in range.

7. User Personas User personas are a fictional representation of the ideal user. They focus on the goals of the user, that individual’s characteristics and the attitudes he/she displays. They also examine what the user expects from the product.

recap, the techniques are: Card sorting Expert review Eye movement tracking Field studies Usability testing Remote usability testing User personas

1D: Words Words—especially those used in interactions, such as button labels—should be meaningful and simple to understand.

Typical topics covered within user interviews include: Background (such as ethnographic data) The use of technology in general The use of the product The user’s main objectives and motivations

Don’t forget that scripts are a guide, not a bible. If you find something interesting takes place in an interview and there are no questions, on the script, to explore that idea… explore it anyway.

1. Card Sorting Card sorting was originally a technique used in psychological research long before ‘UX research’ was a thing. It’s a simple concept: you write words or phrases on cards; then you ask the user to categorize them. You might also ask the user to label the categories.

Card sorting, an approach that UX research inherited from psychological research, is an excellent, and wonderfully simple, way of assessing what users’ priorities are and how their sense of order processes the existing nature of an item in question.

design thinking is essentially a problem-solving approach, crystallized in the field of design, which combines a holistic user-centered perspective with rational and analytical research with the goal of creating innovative solutions.

Design Thinking is an Iterative and Non-linear Process

Useful Usable Findable Credible Desirable Accessible Valuable

Don’t neglect accessibility in the user experience; it’s not just about showing courtesy and decency—it’s about heeding common sense, too!

We tend to be distracted by the voices in our own heads telling us what the design should look like.” — Michael Bierut, Partner at Pentagram Design

offers 5 criteria that a product must meet so as to be usable: Effectiveness Efficiency Engagement Error Tolerance Ease of Learning

User experience design, as its name suggests, is about designing the ideal experience of using a service or product.

You can add all the features and functionality that you like to a site or application, but the success of the project rides on a single factor: how the users feel about it.

Does the site or application give the user value?

A UX designer is someone who investigates and analyzes how users feel about the products he or she offers them. UX designers then apply this knowledge to product development in order to ensure that the user has the best possible experience with a product.

Focusing on UX enables design to focus on the user.

Design thinking is an iterative process in which we seek to understand the user, challenge assumptions, and redefine problems in an attempt to identify alternative strategies and solutions that might not be instantly apparent with our initial level of understanding. At the same time, design thinking provides a solution-based approach to solving problems.

Each spoke of a solution which fitted within his or her respective level of expertise.

the most obvious solutions are the ones hardest to come by because of the self-imposed constraints we work within.

many years of education and practical experience can hinder rather than help in dealing with a problem.

Design thinking is often referred to as ‘outside the box’ thinking, as designers are attempting to develop new ways of thinking that do not abide by the dominant or more common problem-solving methods.

A user’s mind is complex. You should know; you have one, (I assume). UXers work with subjective thoughts and feelings a lot; they can make or break your results. And the designer must ignore their own psychology sometimes, too, and that’s hard! Ask yourself: What is the user’s motivation to be here in the first place? How does this make them feel? How much work does the user have to do to get what they want? What habits are created if they do this over and over? What do they expect when they click this? Are you assuming they know something that they haven’t learned yet? Is this something they want to do again? Why? How often? Are you thinking of the user’s wants and needs, or your own? How are you rewarding good behavior?

(UX) design is all about: including the experiential reality of the user as a primary input to design rather than relying only on the goals of a business or the needs of a technology. Embodied cognition is a way of understanding more deeply how users have experiences, and how even subtle changes in the environment can have profound impacts on those experiences.

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Information visualization, the art of representing data in a way that makes it easy to understand and to manipulate,

From designing meaningful interfaces, to processing your own UX research, information visualization is an indispensable tool in your UX design

Early in her career, the ratio of UX and designers to developers was 1:70. These days, great teams doing consumer-oriented products have ratios of 1:6 because it’s that important to create products that people love.

If anyone wants to learn how to become a better UX designer and overall human, they should work in retail or the service industry. Front-of-house and back-of-house translate to front-end and back-end design. Not only do you learn how to manage customer expectations, but you learn how to encourage the team around you for overall, a better customer experience.

Starting the design process focused on graphic design instead of interaction design is a common and costly amateur mistake. However, to deliver a professional quality experience, the execution stage must finish strong in this area. One of the economic advantages of conceptual model-based IxD is that, by the time high-fidelity mockup generation becomes appropriate, the foundation will be so stable that the graphic design work will require far fewer iterations.

It took me a couple of years after I woke up in that cold sweat to figure out what flag I was going to plant, and then how to do something with it. Using the process in Step 1, I found the things that I wanted to be known for and the work that I was passionate about. And then I started telling my story all the time to anyone who would actually listen. For me, this story was around Lean UX because of who I was at the time. I created a pitch based on design for designers, by designers, to change the way that they were working. And I honed that voice and that tone and that dialogue by telling the story over and over and over again using blog posts and articles and eventually in-person talks. The first talk I ever gave as a part of my new professional trajectory was on August 12, 2010. I told the story about how we solved the problem of integrating UX into Agile at TheLadders. And then the timeline started to accelerate from there. A month later, on September 24, I gave my first talk about Lean UX and it was in Paris. I was communicating about this topic publicly, and people were saying, “Hey, come give us a talk about it.” And I was writing about the topic in any publication that would actually listen to this kind of thing. I kept speaking and writing and making presentations, and as I got my ideas out into the world and put them into play in any way I could, on March 7, 2011, I finally hit the jackpot. This was three years after I had my 35th-birthday epiphany and the pressure was on—I knew I had just two years left before I was going to become obsolete, an also-ran. I hit the jackpot when I managed to get an article published in Smashing magazine. At the time, Smashing had a million readers online, and so the scale of my conversation was growing and growing because I was becoming known as the guy who had some answers to this question. That was a massive break for me because the article provided me with a global audience for the first time. Obviously, anything you publish on the internet is global and distributed, but the bottom line is that, if the platform you choose or that chooses you has a built-in audience, you stand a much bigger chance. Smashing magazine had an audience. The article, titled “Lean UX: Getting Out of the Deliverables Business” became very successful, and that’s where I planted my flag—providing solutions to the Agile and design problem with a real-world tested solution nicely packaged and labeled as Lean UX.

When I started exploring what flag I should plant back in 2009, there was a confluence of events in the works. The business world was increasingly using a methodology called Agile as its preferred product-development process while, at the same time, digital design was becoming increasingly important. Technology was rapidly evolving, and design was becoming a key differentiating factor for success—this was just a couple of years after the introduction of the iPhone. Companies were struggling to figure out how to integrate these two trends successfully, which created an opportunity for me—no one had solved this problem. This is where I decided to plant my flag—because I had the expertise, the opportunity, a real problem to solve that many people were dealing with, and the credibility to speak to it. I decided to work on solving this challenge and to bring everyone willing along with me on my journey. My teams and I started experimenting, trying different ways of working. We often failed, but as we were going through our ups and downs, I was sharing—publicly writing and giving talks about—what we were trying to do. Turned out I wasn’t the only one struggling with this issue. The more I wrote and the more I presented, the more widely I became known out in the world as someone who was not only working to solve this issue, but who was a source of ideas, honesty, and inspiration. So, when I left TheLadders, I had already planted my flag. I had found the thing I wanted to be known for and the work I was passionate about. A quick word of warning… Success on this path is a double-edged sword and you should approach this process with eyes open. The flag you plant today may very well be with you for the rest of your life—especially if you build widespread credibility on the topic. It’s going to follow you wherever you go and define you. No matter what else I do out in the world, I will forever be Jeff Gothelf—the Lean UX guy.

Currently unpublished data by the UK Government Digital Service (GDS) shows that users often struggle to make a selection when there are more than about 20 options.

We seek out a balance, most notably between logic and emotion, like Spock and Kirk, or Data and Data in that episode where his emotion chip overloaded his positronic relays. You

The goal of a UX designer is to make users effective.

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