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Accessibility Has Failed: Try Generative UI = Individualized UX
jakobnielsenphd.substack.com
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Traditional methods for accessibility have been tried for 30 years without substantially improving computer usability for disabled users. It’s time for a change, and AI will soon come to the rescue with the ability to generate a different user interface for every user, optimized for that person’s unique needs.

Intranet Usability Guidelines: New Findings From 57 Intranets
www.nngroup.com
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Updated intranet guidelines feature enhanced content practices by teams, refined search design to meet elevated expectations, task-oriented navigation, and standardized design elements for visual consistency.

Photos Improve Website Usability and Credibility
jakobnielsenphd.substack.com
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High-quality, detailed photographs convey information with authenticity, fostering trust in the content provided on a website. Investing in premium images is essential, as indistinct or amateurish pictures can perplex users and erode credibility. But AI-generated images can sometimes substitute at drastically lower cost.

Unreliability of AI in Evaluating UX Screenshots
jakobnielsenphd.substack.com
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In a case study of ChatGPT evaluating 12 e-commerce screenshots, most of the AI-driven redesign suggestions were inconsistent and untrustworthy. Human UX expertise must be employed to judge UX advice from AI.

Usability 101: Introduction to Usability
www.nngroup.com
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If a website is difficult to use, people leave. How to define usability? How, when, and where to improve it? Why should you care? Overview defines key usability concepts and answers basic questions.

27/03/2023
Usability 101 (video)
www.nngroup.com
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Usability assesses how easy user interfaces are to use. Usability is defined by 5 quality components: learnability, efficiency, memorability, errors, and satisfaction.

27/03/2023
Maintain Consistency and Adhere to Standards (Usability Heuristic #4)
www.nngroup.com
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Users should not have to wonder whether different words, situations, or actions mean the same thing. Follow platform and industry conventions.

10 Guidelines For Navigation Usability
usabilitygeek.com
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The number one most annoying feature of a website is improper or confusing navigation, leaving users lost and wondering what to do next. If you’re lucky enough, some users just might scour through the website to accomplish their purpose of visiting the website. However, most users simply pop-out and add more numbers to the website bounce rate...

10 Usability Heuristics for User Interface Design
www.nngroup.com
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Jakob Nielsen's 10 general principles for interaction design. They are called "heuristics" because they are broad rules of thumb and not specific usability guidelines.

You Can't Impose Joy (UX Slogan #3 video)
www.nngroup.com
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Some UX designers (and many clients) aim to "jazz up" the design to supposedly engage users. This usually backfires because extraneous design elements get in the way of users' tasks.

Card Sorting: How To Get Started
www.interaction-design.org
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concept of card sorting... UX. The popular, low-tech research technique is used to organize data sets. It’s especially useful for information architecture, menu structures, workflows and website navigation. While it’s easy enough to run a card sort, there’s a massive difference between a flop and a success.

User Research: What It Is and Why You Should Do It
www.interaction-design.org
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User research is an essential part of UX design. Unless we understand who we are designing for and why, how can we even know what to create or where to begin?

How Many Participants for Quantitative Usability Studies: A Summary of Sample-Size Recommendations
www.nngroup.com
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40 participants is an appropriate number for most quantitative studies, but there are cases where you can recruit fewer users.

26/07/2021
3 Fast Tests That Cost You Nothing
boagworld.com
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usability testing is not your only option. If I am honest, I am doing less and less usability testing, but instead focusing more on lightweight testing that can be done often and brings more value in getting projects out of the door.

Why 5 Participants Are Okay in a Qualitative Study, but Not in a Quantitative One
www.nngroup.com
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Qualitative usability testing aims to identify issues in an interface, while quantitative usability testing is meant to provide metrics that capture the behavior of your whole user population.

10 Usability Heuristics for User Interface Design
www.nngroup.com
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Jakob Nielsen's 10 general principles for interaction design. They are called "heuristics" because they are broad rules of thumb and not specific usability guidelines.

Refrain from Opening Links in New Browser Windows and Tabs
www.nngroup.com
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Refrain from opening new browser windows. [...] Carefully examine the user’s context, task at hand, and next steps when deciding whether to open links to documents and external sites in the same or a new browser tab."

Photos as Web Content
www.nngroup.com
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Users pay close attention to photos and other images that contain relevant information but ignore fluffy pictures used to "jazz up" web pages.

SpaceX: Simple, beautiful [ed. beautifully to use] interfaces are the future
uxdesign.cc
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An interface to control a spacecraft - how complex and complicated does it have to be?

Hick's law and user experience - the more choice, the longer to make a decision
uxdesign.cc
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Choice seems appealing. But choice overload means we need longer to make decisions. Too long and people will abandon the task and look elsewhere.

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