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Repost: I don’t want an app for that

Leider ist der Eintrag nur auf English verfügbar.About 11 years ago I wrote this - in hindsight, of course - eerily prescient article (in turn inspired by an article by Scott Adams) on what I considered to be the future of UIs: I don’t want an app for that As it turned out, LLM UIs such as ChatGPT and agentic AI systems now pretty much work that way I envisioned the user experience for future computing devices to be like.

Jeremy Keith – Declarative Design @ “Stories on the Road”

Leider ist der Eintrag nur auf English verfügbar. More on this idea: Design & Quantum Superposition

23. April 2023 by Bjoern in Front End Entwicklung, Software, Web, Web Applikation

User Experience Design Methods & Deliverables

Leider ist der Eintrag nur auf English verfügbar.As I previously wrote about, design and user experience (UX) design are disciplines defined and governed by rules, principles, and constraints. The highly recommended Laws of UX provides an in-depth overview of principles and best practices in UX design. Coming from a slightly more hands-on perspective, designer Fabricio Teixeira compiled a comprehensive list of UX design methods & deliverables such as service blueprints, personas, or user journeys.

25. Juli 2021 by Bjoern in Design

A Collection of for a Improving the UX of Signup and Login Workflows

Leider ist der Eintrag nur auf English verfügbar.Independent UX designer Erik D. Kennedy recently published an article with 15 Tips for Better Signup / Login UX on Learn UI Design - a website through which he provides acclaimed courses on both UI and UX design. The article lists general suggestions such as autofocusing on the first field (i.e. the username, or rather: email, field), immediately validating form values, or making input labels clickable, as well as more specific - but no less expedient - ...

11. Juli 2021 by Bjoern in Design, Enterprise Software, Front End Entwicklung, Software, Web Applikation

Second-order Affordances: Design & Quantum Superposition

Leider ist der Eintrag nur auf English verfügbar.A few years ago, having read a thought-provoking article by Csongor Bartus I wrote about design & quantum superposition. The main idea behind this article, and my interpretation, is that - similar to a particle, which exists in a state of quantum superposition - a design doesn't exist by itself but can only ever be realised in a given context and at a specific moment through observation by a user and possibly a ...

27. Juni 2021 by Bjoern in Design, Software, Web, Web Applikation

The Laws of UX

Leider ist der Eintrag nur auf English verfügbar.For a discipline that's commonly seen as being mostly fuelled by creativity rather than being particularly rule-governed, principles, maxims, and laws seem to abound in the world of design. This perception of design being about creativity, first and foremost, rather than deliberate thought is a naïve and superficial one, though. Design of course has always been about principles and constraints, Dieter Rams' famous Ten principles for good design being a particularly good example. UX designer Jon ...

29. November 2020 by Bjoern in Design, Software

Improving Developer UX

Leider ist der Eintrag nur auf English verfügbar.Software engineer and data scientist Gabriel Pickard recently has published an article about developer experience being fundamentally harder than normal UX. He defines developer experience as the user experience of the tools software developers use in order to do their job: code editors IDEs command-line tools Gabriel identifies these main aspects in which in his opinion developer tools are failing their users: Counter to any UI/UX philosophy, as programmers we find ourselves maintaining vast background knowledge about the structure and ...

26. April 2020 by Bjoern in Design, Software

Reprise: Petro Salema – Storyteller Extraordinaire

Leider ist der Eintrag nur auf English verfügbar.Almost five years ago I wrote about a talk given by Petro Salema at that year's edition of beyond tellerrand in Düsseldorf: Petro Salema – Designing Interfaces That Think @ beyond tellerrand Düssedorf 2015 A common advice given regarding talks and presentations, especially ones of a more technical variety, is to not just talk about technical details but to tell a story. While this piece of advice is good and well-intentioned it's not usually exemplified or specified ...

12. April 2020 by Bjoern in Design, Entrepreneurship, Mobile Applikationen, Software, Web, Web Applikation

Dan Abramov on The Elements of UI Engineering

Leider ist der Eintrag nur auf English verfügbar.Somewhat recently, Dan Abramov wrote this interesting piece on his approach to learning about UI engineering. The article's key takeaway is this: "My biggest learning breakthroughs weren’t about a particular technology. [ ... ] It’s this combination of understanding the problems, experimenting with the solutions, and applying different strategies that led to the most rewarding learning experiences in my life." In keeping with this wholistic, problem- rather than technology-oriented approach Dan starts with outlining the problems and ...

3. Februar 2019 by Bjoern in Design, Front End Entwicklung, Software, Web Applikation

Bret Victor: The Future of Programming

Leider ist der Eintrag nur auf English verfügbar. Bret Victor - The Future of Programming from Bret Victor on Vimeo.

16. September 2018 by Bjoern in Design, Software, Web

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