 Asking your user's gender, the new skeuomorphism, upside-down UIs and moreWhat's hot in UX this week:
From 5% to 48%: learnings from another industry's progress in diversity →Few highly skilled industries can say that 48% of their top talent are women, but there is one notable exception. At top tech companies women only make up only about 15% of technical staff, while Black and Hispanic employees together account for less than 10%. This is a sore reality that hurts companies, their customers and their bottom line. Improving the pipeline and diversity training won't fix the diversity problem at tech companies. Instead, we should look to a better historical guide for a better solution. That's where the orchestra comes in. Designing forms for gender diversity and inclusion →I started thinking about writing about gender diversity in design when I noticed how Facebook, Google+, OkCupid, Tinder and a few others have adapted their registration forms to be more inclusive of trans and gender non-conforming (GNC) people. Why isn't everyone doing this, I thought? Asking for a person's gender is a loaded question and there can be many answers to it. It's easy for us designers to just slap a gender question that says Male/Female in there — and make it mandatory — because our marketing department needs that data to sell stuff. How design can help with inclusion →From the way we ask our users an ethnicity question in an online form to the promise of designing an entire world in Virtual Reality, we, as designers, could be missing the opportunity of breaking stereotypes and misconceptions, instead of perpetuating them. Design can't just be incidental. Our work has an impact on people's lives. Inclusion should be a key design principle, just like (if not above) any other design principle your company decides to follow. When inclusion is not part of a brand's or designer's core values, there is a chance it will be forgotten, de-prioritized, and become a distant, utopian concept. Diversity in design: what can I do as a designer, today? →As part of our series of stories about Diversity and Design, we have explored a number of different perspectives on how diversity can affect companies, individuals, and the work that we put out in the world. The question now becomes: what can I do today, as a designer, to contribute to a more diverse industry and to a more inclusive work environment? With our series coming to an end, I wanted to start a recap of all the things we have learned throughout this journey — and how to start acting on some of these things right away. The new skeuomorphism is in your voice assistant → Is skeuomorphism really dead? Well, no. Skeuomorphism is alive and this time it is invisible. The new skeuomorphism lives inside your voice assistant: Your Amazon Echo, Google Home, your phone. Staying in the discomfort zone → You grow fast while in the discomfort zone. But often times we end up being comfortable with our job. It could be because we are good at what we are doing. Nothing wrong with that. Illustrating a more human brand → For years before I joined the Dropbox illustration team, I assumed the Dropbox illustrators had it easy. I imagined talented people getting to make great work for an organization that believed deeply in the power of illustration. How to design a robust chatbot interaction → Getting started with conversational UI design can be a bit overwhelming. What is the best way to design a chatbot interaction? Do you start with an information architecture, a flow diagram, a list of use cases or something else? Mobile UIs are turning upside down → There is an emerging trend in mobile UI design: important interface elements move to the bottom of the screen. The simple explanation for this? Our phones are getting bigger, but our hands are not. The researcher's journey: leveling up as a user researcher → On January 3, 2011, I delivered the greatest usability study ever conducted. It was, truly, an incomparable study, with a detailed report that would leave academics everywhere singing its praise from the rooftops. For the first time, my college professors would have been proud of my work… How I landed my first UX Design job → I recently accepted my first full-time UX Designer position — while still completing my UX Design Bootcamp at Bloc — and have been flooded with emails and phone calls asking the same questions. People don't want new, they want familiar done differently → I'll admit, the bento box is an unlikely place to learn an important business lesson. But consider the California Roll; understanding the impact of this icon of Japanese dining can make all the difference between the success or failure of your product. News & Ideas
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A year ago…UX Design methods and deliverables → What does a User Experience Designer do from 9 to 5? Well, a lot of stuff. The list below aggregates most common methods and deliverables produced by UX Designers as they craft amazing experiences for other people. For each item on the list you'll see additional links with some of the best practices available in the industry. Don't take it for granted, though. Being able to reshape these methods on the go is a pretty persistent ability in some of the best UX Designers we know. Brought to you by your friends at uxdesign.cc Like the links? Share the love ♥ |
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Monday, 1 May 2017
Asking your user’s gender, the new skeuomorphism, upside-down UIs and more
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