UX principles are foundational guidelines that ensure user-centric experiences. Understanding and applying these principles can significantly impact the success of your products or services. Embrace usability to make interactions intuitive, ensuring users achieve their goals effortlessly. Accessibility principles ensure inclusivity, making your designs available to a broader audience. Consistency fosters familiarity and builds trust. Simplicity removes unnecessary complexities, streamlining user journeys. Empathy allows you to truly understand user needs and preferences. Visual hierarchy guides users through content effectively. Feedback informs users about their actions. Flexibility accommodates diverse user behaviors. By adhering to these key UX principles, you can craft compelling experiences that leave a positive and lasting impression on your audience.
If there’s one way to describe the agile development process to novices, it is this – agile is all about incrementally delivering software, bypassing unnecessary overheads, and working collaboratively towards the greater good of the project. Perfection is left out of the equation, as products can always be enhanced down the road. The actual process … Read more
UX hierarchy from bottom to top – functional systems
The path of innovation is a complex one to tread on. Especially in an environment where conformity is usually the norm. So, when you have to convince a bunch of skeptical stakeholders of a radical concept such as a minimum viable product, things can get a whole lot slippery. We’re sold on the idea of … Read more
The term ‘Minimum Viable Product’, or MVP was first coined by product development expert, Frank Robinson, who defined it to be a product with a set of core features that allows it to be used in a way it’s meant to be, and nothing more. In other words, an MVP is “The smallest thing that … Read more
A fascinating thing about user experience (UX) is that we can look in any direction and find applications of user experience in the most mundane or the most advanced projects one can come across. UX is known to save lives, improve things, and improve design. In healthcare, especially, UX is pivotal in ensuring that the … Read more
Quick, tell me what springs to mind when you think of a well-designed healthcare institution. Comfortable beds? Easily accessible, spacious waiting rooms? Yes indeed, things like these would be nice. But how about having a well-designed experience right from the moment you think of scheduling a routine hospital visit? Wouldn’t that be nicer? It’s hard … Read more