Michael R. Faddis
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The Age of User Experience Design. The growth of the User Experience Design field is breathtaking, but well deserved. Thanks to UX Designers all over the world, the quality of products has increased dramatically. Design really does matter now. It’s a user centric world in which there’s not only Apple on the scene anymore.
Awesome Experiences Make Us Nicer By Slowing Down Our Perception Of Time
It all has to do with time perception, these scientists believe. Modern life is plagued by what’s been called “time famine”—the sense that we have way too much to do and way too little time to do it. Everyone seems to feel this sometimes overwhelming sense of having too few minutes, hours and days—and it leads to all sorts of untoward consequences. Perceived time scarcity has been shown to disrupt sleep, to sap our self-discipline and ability to delay rewards. It undermines health, leading to more fast food consumption and skipped medical exams. Rationing out our precious time leads inevitably to self-centered disregard for others. The list goes on.
Scientists were wondering if there might be a way to shift this common misperception of time—and counter these damaging consequences. The fact is, most of us do have enough time, but it’s maddeningly difficult to keep perspective on this. These scientists suspected that stopping time—somehow keeping people in the moment—might alter overall perceptions of time scarcity. And how do we go about stopping or expanding time? With jaw-dropping, awe-inspiring experiences.
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How A Redesigned Electricity Bill Could Make You Smarter And Save Cash
This summer, Chicago startup Power2Switch will roll out a redesigned electricity bill, something that hasn’t been done in more than twenty years, to help consumers make smarter choices about their power usage.
Requirements-Driven Software Development Must Die
The process by which most enterprise software is developed is fatally flawed. There are flaws in any software development process, but in the past 13 years I’ve seen one approach produce more bad software and blow more budgets than any other: requirements-driven software development. Thankfully, I’ve also had the opportunity to see the success of an alternative type of process, a process in which user experience design drives what gets developed. This type of process helps teams deliver good software on time and within their budgets.
A simple view of the UX design process.
For all my fellow UX designers out there, trying to make the world an easier, more enjoyable place to live.
User Experience is about more than just finding the best solution for your users
Whitney Hess: “Most people believe that User Experience is just about finding the best solution for your users — but it’s not. UX is about defining the problem that needs to be solved (the why), defining the types of people who need it to be solved (the who), and defining the way in which it should be solved to be relevant to those people (the how).”
About Michael R. Faddis
User Experience Architect