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"Five-starred Red Flag", indeed ;) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flag_of_China

https://github.com/synesthesiam/voice2json (not synesthesiaN)

you are right. The goal of the research phase of the ux design process is to understand the users' goals, needs, values, knowledge and mental models. The design phase is aimed at identifying solutions that are able to satisfy those goals and needs (better than the competitors) and, at the same time, the goals of the stakeholders.

The "Product-Minded Software Engineer" is someone who has the opportunity to be informed by the analysis of the user research data, and offers his or her technical support to translate ideas and design in a working product or service.

> There is only one recipe for a best seller and it is a very simple one. You have to get the reader to turn over the page. Yes, indeed :)

I recently created an awesome ux project at github. There, you can find a list of the classic books in UX, interaction design, information architecture and usability [0]. If you wish to add any resource, feel free to comment this issue [1] or to create a new one.

UXTools.com just relased the results of the 2018 Design Tools Survey [2].

In november, Jeff Sauro published "the methods ux professionals use" post [3]. There, you can find an exaustive coverage of the most important methods and deliverables in the field.

[0] https://github.com/bussolon/awesome-ux/blob/master/books.md [1] https://github.com/bussolon/awesome-ux/issues/3 [2] http://uxtools.co/survey-2018 [3] https://measuringu.com/ux-methods-2018/

I'm a ux designer and a professor in hci. It looks like there is still a lot of confusion between UX and UI. UX is not just what concerns the interface. UX is a process with different phases:

- an exploratory phase, where the designer interviews the stakeholders, analyzes the current product (if it is a redesign), makes a benchmark of the competing products and services;

- a research phase, where the designer involves actual or potential users to understand their needs, goals, their knowledge, their behaviors; she does interviews, observations, and uses methods like the laddering, the free listing, the card sorting, the task analysis and so on

- the raw results of the research are documented in a number of deliverables:

  * personae
  * scenarios
  * customer journeys / experience maps
  * conceptualizations
  * taxonomies and navigation trees

- the research is translated into the design of the product, producing wireframes or low fidelity prototypes, designing the macro and the micro information architecture, the interaction, the navigation; - a design system should be adopted and / or developed, identifying the components, the colors, the typography, the tone of voice - a high fidelity prototype applies the design system to the low fidelity prototipes - everything should be tested with the users, in different moments: competitive testing (to test the competitors' products), exploratory testing, confirmatory testing; prototypes should also be evaluated to verify the conformity to the standards and to the design system / style guides;

This is UX design (different experts will describe it in slightly different ways, but the structure remains the same).

I'm obviously aware that this process would be a big effort for a side project. But it's very important to keep in mind that this is the right approach, and in the long run, the process will decrease the risk of failure.

testicular thinking, indeed

Is there a way to create a wiki of this list of suggestions and comments?

This is interesting. And I'm wondering if those patterns could be somehow useful also to design the interaction of chatbots.

> seem blind to it

I couldn't help to notice the involuntary pun. What you say is sadly true, and it is a sort of cognitive blindness.

I'm using awesome-CV: https://github.com/posquit0/Awesome-CV This is my cv: http://www.bussolon.it/curriculum_Stefano_Bussolon.pdf

https://www.amazon.com/Mental-Models-Cognitive-Inference-Con... Quite old, but probably the best book about mental models

A sort of A/B test, where what is tested is the implementation.

I bookmarked your post

The matter is that the hypothesis is not disproved. From a statistical point of view, H_0 not rejected just means that we can not exclude that the difference (or the correlation) between two or more variables would be attributed to the chance (that is, the sample variance). The outcome is, of course, informative. If we organize many well designed experiments, and none of them is able to confirm the hypothesis, we can reasonably conclude that it can't be proved. The null hypothesis, however, is not as strong (in disproving a theory) as the alternative hypothesis is in proving it.

Is it just a hype, or is there any real advantage for the user? From the point of view of the interaction, why should I chat with a bot instead of using a more classical gui? I'm asking because i teach ux/hci, and a student just asked me to be her supervisor for a chatbot based interface, and I'm trying to understand if - in a user centered perspective - this approach makes sense

UX is about needs and goals of users. Is about research with the users, documentation, and then UI, and usability. UI is a part of UX. The most visible, not the most important.

[Boox M92](https://wiki.mobileread.com/wiki/Boox_M92) It is great to study academic papers or read any pdf document.

A question: is this much better / different than a principal component analysis (or a factor analysis)?

Nonetheless, some analysis could be done. 1) Identify the variables you believe would count. 2) Identify both the winners and a large population, that could be assumed as the control group. 3) For each variable, calculate a chi^2 (or a t test). 4) Keep the variables where there is a difference in frequency among the two groups (that reach statistical significance, es p < .05). 5) Write the next "how to become billionare" book

Italian citizen here. The experiment was interesting, but it's implementation is quite sub-optimal: when you have to govern, you recognize that matters are quite more complicated and you need to compromise. This is not necessarily wrong, if you have the intellectual honesty to admit that the utopian purity that you assumed as the main differentiator between you and the "old, dirty politics" is, well, an utopic oversimplification.

It looks like you know nothing about cbt

@bhauer, I agree. My point is: give the user the opportunity to decide how much effort to put in the process. In a digital environment, this means giving her millions of alternatives, but helping her to prune them based on some principles that derive from the cognitive sciences. For instance, the faceted navigation allows the consumer to eliminate the alternatives she is not interested in. This is the B consumer, who knows what is important for her (e.g. "a 256GB SSD and 16GB ram"). If you are the consumer C (and everybody of us is in such situation when we have to buy something and we are not expert at all) can be helped using the best sellers (see Amazon.com), the suggested for you, the ratings of other consumers, and so on. In a physical environment, however, you can not filter, and cutting the less selling products helps the majority of customers in the decision making effort, even if this means giving less choice.

you are right :( it's not mobile friendly, sorry

Chernev 2003 distinguishes 3 types of consumers

- Consumer A already chose what she wants, and she just needs to find it out. - Consumer B knows her preferences, but she needs to make the choice. - Consumer C is not aware of which attributes are important in the decision process.

You are a consumer A, so this simplification did not help YOU. It did help consumers B and consumer C.

http://www.hyperlabs.net/ergonomia/presentazioni/euroia11/ the slides of my presentation at Euro IA 2011: Designing Interactions that Help Customers in Decision Making

seems nice, but I have a question: can it import - export to other formats? Latex, markdown, csv ....

i moved to xfce after one year of troubles with Unity

using Markdown you can: - track versions with tools like git - using pandoc, you can transform it in html, pdf, latex, beamer, rtf, slidy - you are sure you are separating style from content - it can be used everywhere: using console editors like vim (or the simple nano, that I love), text editors like notepad+, gedit. I found out a very nice android app, Epstile, that uses markdown and syncs the data using dropbox. - just this morning, in the office where I'm working, there was a discussion like "this doc was saved using office 2010 or office 2007?". Using markdown, you can avoid such a mess.

<shameless self promotion> I gave a talk about "Designing Interactions that Help Customers in Decision Making" last year at EuroIA: http://www.hyperlabs.net/ergonomia/presentazioni/euroia11/

using this device in interaction with a kinect could be a killer application: the kinect gives you the coordinates, the MaKey signals when the user really touch something. Everything could become a touchscreen ...