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UX Research is not a one-time thing

I have come across this, in my opinion, flawed diagram on ADOBE”s blog called A Comprehensive Guide to U UX Research.  It is a circle, and so the idea is that this is the flow of an iterative process, with research starting the flow of design, prototyping, building, testing an back to research. And I […]

Sales Funnel Serves Sales People, Not Users

I have experienced several digital projects this past year where the expressed business goal was to get users to get into the sales funnel as fast as possible. And that is problematic because users do not want to be “funneled”. The easiest way to do that is to get them to fill out a form […]

Illusion of Completeness

What is the Illusion of Completeness? The illusion of completeness is a usability issue, leading users to miss out on relevant content on a web page. This occurs when users do not realize that there is more content to be explored on a page because the design suggests that they reached the end of the page, […]

Desirable Difficulty in UX

I have been thinking about the notion of desirable difficulty – a concept first formalized by Bjork (1994), which basically says that retention of a material is enhanced if it is presented or practiced in a way that purposefully makes it more difficult than it needs to be. So if a material is presented in […]

Hamburger Menu

I am not a blogging kind of person, but I want to keep track of good and thought-provoking ideas. Ideas come in all shapes – visual, readings, reactions, what not. So this is more of a notebook than anything. With that big bang announcement, let me get started. I have been looking a t websites […]

Enclothed cognition and Wireframing tools

For me, new programs, and new gadgets are like presents wrapped in shiny paper under the Christmas tree. I can’t wait to put my hands on them, and start playing with them. In the last year, I have tried Axure, Justinmind, Balsamiq, Mockups, etc. I ended up using the sketch-look of Balsamiq the most often, […]

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