This week, Chris and Jon discuss the new Apple Music app! They go through the onboarding, discuss the app’s design, and talk about some possible solutions. Do you think Apple did a good job? Or have they resorted to using some dreadful UX dark patterns? Stay tuned! We have a great show for you!
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Duet Display app Chris mentioned
This week, Chris and Jon ask the most important design question in the entire universe, “Why?”. We discuss what is “Why”, why “Why” is so important, and try to figure out how to make your “Why” more obvious. Listen to this very important episode!
Some other things we mentioned on the show:
This week, Chris and Jon talk about one of the design industry’s least favorite topics, consistency! We discuss what it is, why it’s important, who owns it, and highlight some real world examples. Stay tuned! You won’t want to miss it!
The idea for this post was spawned from a draft of a blog post that Chris started writing. It has since been published and is available below, complete with links to all the content and articles referenced on the show!
https://ydsgn.wordpress.com/2015/06/01/consistency-and-user-experience/
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This week, Chris and Jon spend quite a while discussing Jon’s favorite subject, credit card forms! Along with that we go over some general tips on form design.
Below are the links we mentioned on the show if you’re interested in learning more.
We discussed how certain visual designs can help your form feel more secure based on information from the Baymard Institute.
Jon talked about the different types and levels of transactions.
At the end of the show, we mentioned a series of different links:
Luke Wroblewski’s book on form design
Brad Frost’s experimental credit card form
A very cool animated credit card form by Jesse Pollak
Anyway, there is a lot to talk about this week, so stick around! This is a good one!
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Jon and Chris wrap up this series on usability heuristics. Lots of good information about how to handle error messages and help documentation, and how important user assistance is to good design.
If you missed the previous episodes you can start at episode 1 of this series on Nielsen’s 10 Usability Heuristics.
Today we talk about 9 and 10!
Help users recognize, diagnose, and recover from errors
Error messages should be expressed in plain language (no codes), precisely indicate the problem, and constructively suggest a solution.
Help and documentation
Even though it is better if the system can be used without documentation, it may be necessary to provide help and documentation. Any such information should be easy to search, focused on the user’s task, list concrete steps to be carried out, and not be too large.
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Having good onboarding is critical to the success of your product. This week, Chris and Jon talk about onboarding! What is it? Why is it so important? Chris asked on Twitter what questions people have about it. So later in the show, we also answer those questions about what makes a good onboarding experience. Thanks to everyone that wrote in!
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We discussed a bunch of different apps on this show. They are:
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This episode, Chris and Jon start a series of shows devoted to everyone’s favorite usability heuristics! If you never heard of these before, or if you heard of them and forgot about them, have a listen and refresh your brain! These principles in interaction design are critical to helping make your product successful. Later in the show, we talk about how different apps utilize these principles and whether or not they did them well.
The principles we are discussing:
10 Usability Heuristics for User Interface Design by Jakob Nielson
The Design of Everyday Things by Don Norman
You can find Part 2 right here.
The apps are:
Jawbone Up https://appsto.re/us/8LlN2.i
Chris was less enthusiastic about this app as the poor onboarding (as of this post) made it really difficult to figure out what the app does. Needless to say, they didn’t apply Nielsen’s heuristics very well.
Breeze by FitnessKeeper https://appsto.re/us/TuMrX.i
As we were running out of time, Chris didn’t get too much of a chance to talk about this app. But it’s worth looking at simply because the language they use in the app matches the real world really well. The language is informal (not necessarily casual) but effective, and even works in concepts from the last show on playfulness!
As always, we want to hear from you so leave your comments below! You can also reach us on Twitter:
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Jawbone
Breeze
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This week, Chris and Jon talk about how playfulness can help improve your UX. As an example of playfulness, we look at an app called Carrot; an app to help you track calories. It’s a fun episode, so listen in and stop being so serious!
Try Carrot out for yourself and tell us what you think.
This week, Chris and Jon take a look at a new app for investing, Acorns! We also bring on David Keegan, Director of Design at Acorns, and talk about the highs and lows of using the app plus interview him on working at Acorns. Stick around! You won’t want to miss this show!
Try Acorns yourself, download here
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Workflow is a new app, recently named an Editor’s Choice! Chris and Jon take a look at this new programmable automation tool for iOS and chat about onboarding and the user experience. Can this app improve on IFTTT? Listen and find out!
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