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UX is more than just usability or look and feel

A Better Designed World • 7 implied HN points • 16 Feb 23
🕹 Technology User Experience
  1. UX is composed of five key areas that include usability, utility, functional integrity, visual design, and persuasiveness.
  2. Good UX balances all five areas; a product might excel in one but lacking in others.
  3. Usability is crucial for a product to be easily learnable and memorable; utility determines the value; functional integrity focuses on reliability; visual design impacts appeal and perception; persuasiveness drives conversions and user engagement.

What makes Notion so special

subtract • 5 implied HN points • 07 Apr 23
🕹 Technology User Experience
  1. Notion's design is centered around two key primitives: 'block' and 'page' that make it familiar and easy to use.
  2. Notion's commitment to a single primitive 'block' allows for future growth and adding new features without complexity.
  3. The 'page' primitive in Notion enhances user experience by enabling flexibility and accommodating various types of content.

The NPE Canvas: Fundamental Principles for any end-user facing product

Venture Prose • 19 implied HN points • 27 Apr 17
💼 Business User Experience
  1. Building a successful consumer product takes time, talent, and hard work. Patience is key.
  2. For end-user facing applications, it's crucial to focus on a strong Narrative (user behavior), a simple Primitive (core feature), and Enablers (enhancements).
  3. Entrepreneurs should take time to reflect on their product's Narrative and Primitive to ensure clarity and simplicity.
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Looking away

Internal exile • 2 HN points • 02 Feb 24
🕹 Technology User Experience
  1. Tech products often prioritize sustaining the tech industry over real necessity.
  2. AR/VR devices like Apple's Vision Pro can deepen the divide between mediated reality and actual experience.
  3. Memories and reality are more than just detailed visuals; genuine memories involve what is not recorded and preserved.

Uniform Thought Machines

Mind Prison • 3 HN points • 02 May 23
🕹 Technology User Experience
  1. Social media can induce social conformity by design, not just by algorithms.
  2. Engagement hacking and social engineering strategies keep users hooked and drive revenue.
  3. Pre-social media communication, focused on diverse small circles, may offer more nuanced conversations and less conformity.

Founder’s Guide to User Interviews - Should Founders Tap into User’s Imagination of the Product ?

Build Startup In Public • 1 HN point • 29 Jul 24
💼 Business User Experience
  1. Ask hands-on questions that require people to explain their actions. This helps you understand their experiences better.
  2. Let users share their vision for the ideal product. It can reveal their pain points and what they really want.
  3. Instead of focusing on narrow user definitions, engage with users in their environment. This gives you a clearer picture of their needs and behaviors.

How People Experience Things

Load-bearing Tomato • 1 implied HN point • 04 Jul 24
🕹 Technology User Experience
  1. Understanding how people think can really help in designing better games. When we grasp players' experiences and emotions, we can create features they will understand and enjoy.
  2. A state machine model can show us how players react based on their past experiences and knowledge. This way, we can predict what they'll do in different situations.
  3. It's important to consider different players' backgrounds when designing games. New players and seasoned players might respond very differently to the same game mechanics.

Eight Key Lessons for Rocket-Shipping AI Products

Unsupervised Learning • 1 implied HN point • 10 Apr 24
🕹 Technology User Experience
  1. Move quickly and launch your product fast. It’s better to get user feedback sooner than to wait for the perfect version.
  2. Involve your users in the creation process. Let them guide the product's direction so that the final result meets their needs.
  3. Testing your product internally before releasing it to users is key. It helps to ensure quality and makes sure you’re delivering something valuable.

B2C vs B2B vs B2B2E CIAM

ciamweekly • 1 HN point • 11 Mar 24
🕹 Technology User Experience
  1. B2C, B2B, and B2B2E applications require different approaches to customer identity and access management (CIAM) systems.
  2. B2C applications aim at end consumers, requiring smooth registration and authentication processes due to user choice.
  3. B2B and B2B2E applications cater to business and employee users, with focus on organization structures, payment collection, and different authentication needs.

CIAM MFA

ciamweekly • 1 HN point • 20 Feb 24
🕹 Technology User Experience
  1. Multi-factor authentication (MFA) is crucial for online security, but it may not be foolproof.
  2. Different situations call for different MFA methods; what works for a bank may not work for a restaurant.
  3. There is no one-size-fits-all MFA solution; consider user behavior, application needs, and user investment in your service.

№.10 Site of Departure, Part Three

AFFALÉ • 1 HN point • 30 Aug 23
🪑 Design User Experience
  1. The design and implementation of an e-commerce site is crucial for creating a unique online shopping experience.
  2. Customization, personalization, and high-touch interactions can elevate the fashion shopping experience for customers.
  3. Incorporating creative elements like unique logos and visual identities can add depth and character to a brand's online presence.

Where UX and marketing cross over

Mehdeeka • 0 implied HN points • 07 Jun 23
🕹 Technology User Experience
  1. When making changes to website navigation, consider the impact on user experience and accessibility.
  2. Menu design options include basic lists, simple drop downs, mega menus, and full-screen menus.
  3. The complexity of a menu can affect conversion rates, with smaller menus potentially leading to a better CR.

What I see of the Apple Car in the Vision Pro

Collisions • 0 implied HN points • 09 Feb 24
🕹 Technology User Experience
  1. Apple is hinting at advanced audio features for the Apple Car, like spatial audio and noise cancelling.
  2. Apple might introduce innovative eye-tracking technology in the Apple Car for seamless interaction and safety purposes.
  3. Apple's focus for the Apple Car seems to be on enhancing the driving experience rather than full autonomy, prioritizing user experience and luxury.

Daily AI Snapshot: Adobe's AI Makes You a PDF Power User

The AI Observer • 0 implied HN points • 21 Feb 24
🕹 Technology User Experience
  1. Adobe's AI technology has transformed PDF functionality to be more interactive and insightful, offering dynamic content summarization and intelligent document analysis.
  2. The integration of AI into Adobe Acrobat is a significant leap forward in addressing the traditional limitations of PDFs, such as static formatting and limited interactivity, providing users with more efficient document management tools.
  3. The ethical and practical considerations of data privacy and user consent become crucial when AI is integrated into tools like Adobe Acrobat, emphasizing the importance of maintaining user trust and implementing responsible AI practices.

🥑 Newsletter Wor #20: becoming a developer advocate, succeeding in tech, real-life Squid Game...

Women On Rails Newsletter - International Version • 0 implied HN points • 16 Nov 21
🕹 Technology User Experience
  1. The newsletter includes updates on tech like Angular's version 13 and new tools like Shopify's Hydrogen framework.
  2. Tips on testing faster with Rspec and FactoryBot, using 'create', 'build', and 'build_stubbed'.
  3. Articles feature advice on tech career growth, becoming a developer advocate, and exploring the history of women in typography.

#7 - How to keep your interface consistent

A Good Interface • 0 implied HN points • 19 Oct 23
🪑 Design User Experience
  1. Consistent design improves user experience by reducing cognitive load and enhancing accessibility
  2. Reusing design elements like colors, spacing, and typography can save time during design and development
  3. Design consistency is essential for establishing industry standards, reducing learning curves, and improving user engagement

Ads don't have to suck

Steven’s Substack • 0 implied HN points • 08 Mar 23
🕹 Technology User Experience
  1. Good ads solve problems and respect a publisher's app UX.
  2. Digital ads are a tax on our attention and publishers decide how much ad coverage to use before users leave.
  3. Advertisers and content publishers can collaborate to create dynamic and contextually relevant ad content, improving user experience.

Intents are just...

David’s Substack • 0 implied HN points • 13 Jun 23
🕹 Technology User Experience
  1. Intents are not the same as transactions; they are declarative and specify desired state changes.
  2. The market is moving towards user-intents over submitted transactions for better prices and experiences.
  3. Intents, like limit orders, are hard to decentralize, leading to siloed centralized servers and extraction of rent from users.

Optimizing Private Key Regulation

Coinsights • 0 implied HN points • 26 Jun 23
🕹 Technology User Experience
  1. To use crypto products, people need secure and user-friendly ways to manage private keys.
  2. Non-custodial guidelines should be improved for a safer crypto ecosystem.
  3. A service claiming to be non-custodial should not be able to access or lose a user's private key.

Arc: a modern browser.

Minute Review • 0 implied HN points • 13 Feb 23
🕹 Technology User Experience
  1. Arc is a modern browser built on Chromium, similar to Chrome but with a new UI and UX.
  2. Arc has great design aesthetics, but the UX may require some learning and adjustment, especially with its unique features like separate workspaces.
  3. Although Arc has some energy cost and bug issues, it's still worth giving a try for its refreshing technology and free onboarding.

Understanding SaaS Net Dollar Retention

Market Curve • 0 implied HN points • 30 Aug 23
💼 Business User Experience
  1. Net Dollar Retention (NDR) is the percentage increase or retention in ARR/MRR over a specific period.
  2. NDR is important to see growth from existing customers, user engagement, and recurring value.
  3. Strategies to optimize NDR include focusing on customer success, providing value, studying user patterns, enhancing user experience, and upselling.

Why big redesigns fail

Product Lessons • 0 implied HN points • 20 Nov 23
🕹 Technology User Experience
  1. Redesigns can make things harder for customers even if technically better
  2. Old familiar systems have an edge over new ones in customer loyalty
  3. The future of software might involve more 'done for you' actions rather than 'do it yourself' tasks

Getting rid of the guest tier

trydeepwork • 0 implied HN points • 09 May 23
🕹 Technology User Experience
  1. Deciding what features to include in a guest tier can be difficult due to data sources.
  2. Maintaining a guest tier can be a challenge for indie developers with limited time and resources.
  3. A guest tier can lead to a suboptimal user experience, especially as more features are added.

Changelog

trydeepwork • 0 implied HN points • 07 May 23
🕹 Technology User Experience
  1. Users can now move tasks between power goals and delete them
  2. Significant UI improvements to tasks and badges for completed challenges
  3. Improved integration with Firebase Analytics for better tracking

L'Échelle de Valéry, ou Pourquoi les Gens Intelligents Créent des Produits Trop Compliqués

Mind Fooled • 0 implied HN points • 03 Sep 23
🕹 Technology User Experience
  1. People tend to create products that are too complicated due to unconscious forces pushing towards complexity.
  2. The L'Échelle de Valéry model illustrates the spectrum between overly simplistic (Simplistic) and overly complex (Usines à gaz) products.
  3. To combat the trend of overly complicated products, actively expose yourself to user feedback and make efforts to simplify the design process.