Yakari Van Dessel

Sadly, in projects UX designers don’t always have a say on which cookie consent the client will be using. Nevertheless I agree with you. Sometimes I have a feeling they make it so hard to decline optional cookies they hope you give up, to get on with your day, and just accept to give up your data.

Apple's Liquid Glass is a grim portent for UX Industry leaders like Apple and Shopify are redefining design excellence from making products usable to solely luxury branding.

It was unavoidable that this week I'd end up writing about Apple's latest blunder. But in the context of Figma's Sites bullshit and Shopify recasting designers as "artists" it's even worse than one OS making a stupid decision.

The mission of UX is being changed: from making shit work, into branding

There is a design job board for open source projects opensourcedesign.net/jobs/. Hope this helps!

Dear #OpenSource folks, I'd like to offer #UX help to your teams. I've tried "making a small PR" on projects and it turns out that's TERRIBLE advice for a UX designer. The PR is usually misunderstood or ignored. I don't fault the teams for this! It's just the wrong tool for the job.

There are two problem-solving approaches:

1) identify a problem that you want to solve, then find a method that will solve it
or
2) pick a method you want to use, and go hunting for problems.

The second way is the stupid way, so it shouldn't surprise anyone that it's the default method in tech.

Welcome Paul! Happy to see you here! I search for every author or design leader I gaine insights from when I join a new platform. That is why I already started following you. Have to keep an eye on those who share valuable knowledge in the industry!

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Received a pretty cool UX eBook from the IxDF - Interaction Design Foundation in my mailbox today. These unexpected little suprises from a business make me happy. www.interaction-design.org/literature/b... #greatcx #ux #hci #ixdf

Alright brats and rats, it's time for the ol' looking-for-a-new-job-aroonie. If anyone has NY-based or remote Product or UX roles at the lead/manager/director, I'd be obliged if you send them my way.

I wish you the best in your choice. Any job can be stressful and tedious. And you may come across many people and articles talking about leaving the product design industry. But everyone has their own story, their own path. For me, moving into UX was the best career choice I ever made.

I will certainly talk about it soon. Currently, the project is still in the discovery phase. We started with surveys and interviews from a different idea. Currently we are pulling the discovery research broader than originally expected. (We are doing it on our own time, so scheduling is a challenge)

Yes, that's the book! I recommend it everywhere I work as a consultant to my colleagues. I am convinced that understanding listening sessions makes you a better qualitative researcher. Even if you don't apply the technique yourself. It changes the way you talk to people forever.

I read the book when it just came out. Fantastic book btw. I am currently working on a product for parents. During user interviews, I noticed that the topic we are working on was so many times more sensitive and broader than initially thought. I look forward to applying the technique thoroughly.

That's very kind of you, but it's not necessary. The model is entirely your idea. I'm glad I could help!

How much of your organization’s Learning and Development budget have your leaders allocated to training about who your users are and what they need?

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Thank you for sharing. I like deceptive patterns. It’s more descriptive and less ambiguous. I googled deceptive patterns, apparently I was living under a rock for the past year or so 😅

Quality Printed Books on Front-End, Design, UX, Accessibility — Smashing Magazine The web has become a noisy place with millions of companies trying to get users’ attention. No wonder many of them apply increasingly desperate techniques to encourage users to act on their websites. ...

Today I came across several articles via Paul Boag's newsletter about dark patterns & CRO etc. It reminds me of one of Paul Boag's fantastic books, “Click! How to Encourage Clicks Without Shady Tricks”. It's fun, aesthetically pleasing and insightful. www.smashingmagazine.com/printed-book... #UX

If I could make a plea for BlueSky, it’s this: Please make a point of sharing links to articles, essays and more that you LOVE, that you enjoyed, that expanded you in some way.

I’m always surprised by the dominance of hate-shares, complaint shares on here. And I think it has a riptide effect.

Cool, happy learning! How are you learning JS? I learned JS back in 2011 at college and I didn’t need it that often. Like just a few times over the years. Currently I’m relearning JS via a Udemy course. Bought a course in promo and they are great.

That looks tasty and amazing. What kind of drink was it?

X has too many adds, too many followers and like chasers, aggressive algorithms, feels cluttered, can’t start a discussion if you don’t have thousands of followers, feels hostile. Mastodon is not user-friendly for mainstream users. BlueSky feels user-centered. And the AT Protocol might have a future

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Beyond Intrinsic Motivation: The Role of Autonomous Motivation in User Experience | ACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction Motivation and autonomy are fundamental concepts in Human-Computer Interaction (HCI), yet in User Experience (UX) research they have remained surprisingly peripheral. We draw on Self-Determination The...

One of my fav papers just got accepted to TOCHI!

Spearheaded by @comic-sans-soleil.bsky.social, we investigated how UX differs as a function of motivation (as per self-determination theory). Some really neat and nuanced findings here, imo

doi.org/10.1145/3689...

Probably someone somewhere is writing about why you only need 5 (to 8) users at this very moment.

How are we still getting “you can find 85% of all UX problem with just 5 people” in the year of our lord 2024?!

It would take me a while too (close to forever haha). Longer as 15 seconds for sure. This is far from any good UX best practice imo. Interesting one though. Thanks for sharing!

Nice to meet you too!

Thanks for asking. Using the pyramid as acceptance criteria sounds great. To me, this model is about strategically creating interfaces (10 heuristics layer) that meet today's digital product standards/user expectations (fandamental and second layer). "The Sustainable Digital Product Model" Haha IDK!

Interesting framework. I have a question if I may. It's called “The usability model,” so when you reach the top of the pyramid, you achieve “delightful usability”? Imho, this sustainable UX model is more than just usability (effectiveness, efficiency, satisfaction, etc.).

LukeW | A Visual Approach to Help Pages As the functionality and scope of Web sites and applications has grown over the years, so has the prevalence of Help pages. Nearly every feature has an explanat...

“Most Help pages are walls of text making them hard to act on. So a few years ago, we tried something different.” - A visual approach to Help pages by @LukeW www.lukew.com/ff/entry.asp... #visualdesign #UX #IA