SCARY UIAHH!!!

NO!!!

KEEP AWAY!!!

TALES FROM THE WORLD OF UX

WHAAAAAAAAT?!

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ALL THE FEATURES AND SETTINGS!!

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CLICK WHAT TO WHAT NOW?

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If your buttons need instructions, relabel your buttons. (even if it means custom code)

FOR THIS FIRST USER TEST…DON’T CRASH THE PLANE.

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HOW MANY BUTTONS DOES YOUR TOILET HAVE?

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AH, THE CLASSIC DOOR HANDLE EXAMPLE

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AFFORDANCE, PEOPLE! HANDLES ARE FOR PULLING, FLAT PANELS ARE FOR PUSHING!

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Not perfect, decent

COMPARISON TABLE – NOT SO GOOD

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• Too much text. • No clear column

headers• Contrast between

alt row bg color and copy not high enough.

• Full borders add clutter

• Overall: blah

http://www.regions.com/personal_banking/savings_cds.rf

COMPARISON TABLE – MUCH BETTER

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• Clear column headers

• Clear y axis labels• High contrast on

all rows between copy and bg color

• Clearly delineated sections

• Easy to scan

http://www.firehost.com/compare

LOOKS GOOD, BUT IMAGERY TOO BIG!

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• Clearly designed for large monitors

• The main task users have is to search for flights, and that form is hidden.

http://www.southwest.com

“PARALLAX” (NOT THE GREEN LANTERN VILLAIN)

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• Numbered navigation?• CTA to ‘Scroll down’

instead of “next” or “continue” ?

• Navigation is clickable and has flyouts?

• How do you visually know there is more content? Section padding is HUGE

• Scroll Down CTAs jump around so you have to keep moving your mouse left and right. Keep them centered

Visually okay, but…

https://www.verizon.com/foryourhome/myaccount/ngen/upr/splash/myvzlearn.aspx

BETTER PARALLAX

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• Clear that there is more content down below

• ‘more content’ CTA (v) is centered and pointing to more content

• More true parallax since background imagery scrolls at different speeds

https://www.spotify.com/us/

GREAT PARALLAX

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• Clear that there is more content down below

• ‘more content’ CTA _v_ is centered and pointing to more content

• More true parallax since background imagery scrolls at different speeds

• Navigation/progress indicator on side shows you where you are and lets you click to jump navigate

http://discover.store.sony.com/be-moved/

SCARY PARALLAX! (THE GREEN LANTERN VILLAIN)

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NICE DESIGN (HAD TO SHOW APPLE. NOT PARALLAX PER SE)

16http://www.apple.com/iphone-6/

CAROUSELS. GREAT RIGHT?!

17http://shouldiuseacarousel.com/

HOVER NAV. CONTROL YOUR FLYOUTS!

18http://www.carmax.com/

• onMouseover = BAD. Instant and annoying

HOVER NAV. MORE CONTROL OVER YOUR FLYOUTS

19http://www.ally.com/

• onHoverIntent! Quick mouseover does not trigger the flyout. Only show flyouts if user actually intends to stop their mouse and wait for a navigation dropdown. NOT annoying!

http://cherne.net/brian/resources/jquery.hoverIntent.html

HUMOR BREAK!

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FITTS’S LAW

21http://www.flvs.net/Pages/default.aspx

• Click ‘login’. What happened? New page? Where is login?

Fitts's law (often cited as Fitts' law) is a model of human movement …that predicts that the time required to rapidly move to a target area is a function of the distance to the target and the size of the target. --http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fitts's_law

So, put things closer together if they’re related!

PUT THE DESIRED THING NEAR WHERE USER HAS TO CLICK/TAP

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LONG FORMS…{YAWN}…ABANDON

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• 1 long form. • No indication of length.

No indication of progress as you fill it out (other than scrollbar size)

http://www.rkk.com/long-application-form/application/long

FORMS DONE RIGHT WITH CHUNKING, ORGANIZATION, PROGRESS INDICATOR, PROGRESSIVE DISCLOSURE

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• Progress indicator• You know generally how long (how many

steps there are)• Sections are chunked appropriately

SCHOOL WEBSITES ARE NOTORIOUSLY BAD (NO FUNDING)

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SCHOOL WEBSITES ARE NOTORIOUSLY BAD (NO FUNDING)

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• Taxonomy is poor: “whats a program?” OH, my kid’s classes. why not call it classes or at

least ‘subjects’

• Underlining is not enough to denote ‘clickability’, make the hyperlinks blue

• What are those icons? AA? That’s not universal. “ICONS ARE AMBIGUOUS”

• Why is “select teachers to email” label above the “not graded” column?

• Column headers would help: “Class | Status | Teacher” or “Class | Teacher | Status”

• Too many boxes!

DON’T DESTROY YOUR LAYOUT!

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DON’T DESTROY YOUR LAYOUT!

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• The pattern for emailing teachers is SO poor here. The form shows up in the content and

smashes the list view left ,making it illegible.

• When you click checkboxes next to email addresses, there is no feedback to user that your

email will actually go to those people (UI needs feedback when user interacts!) I am not

confident as a user, the system is working right.

• Is there even a strong use case for emailing multiple teachers at a time?

CAN BE CLEANED UP BY USING STANDARDS AND INDUSTRY RECOGNIZED PATTERNS

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CAN BE CLEANED UP BY USING STANDARDS AND INDUSTRY RECOGNIZED PATTERNS

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WORST CASE UX FAIL..

31https://medium.com/@designuxui/how-bad-ux-killed-jenny-ef915419879e

• Its not just bad visual design and bad UI, its workflow, page flow, alerts, usability!

AMAZON, THEN AND NOW

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YAHOO, THEN(1994) AND NOW

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APPLE, THEN(1997) AND NOW

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TWITTER, THEN AND NOW

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• Simpler design• Clearer calls to action• Visual to show the product in

action• Better logo ;)

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KRISSY’S 7 UX PRINCIPLES

1. Clarity2. Context3. Defaults4. Feedback5. Easing6. Guided Action7. Preferred Action

Ask Krissy Scoufis for more info

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SOME UX REFERENCES

http://faculty.washington.edu/jtenenbg/courses/360/f04/sessions/schneidermanGoldenRules.html

http://www.uie.com/

http://boxesandarrows.com/

http://ui-patterns.com/

http://www.nngroup.com/articles/ten-usability-heuristics/

http://uxpin.com/

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SOME UX REFERENCES (CONT)

http://developer.android.com/design/get-started/creative-vision.html

https://developer.yahoo.com/ypatterns/

http://www.userfocus.co.uk/index.html

http://www.usertesting.com/

http://rosenfeldmedia.com/

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http://www.amazon.com/Things-Designer-People-Voices-Matter/dp/0321767535/ref=pd_sim_b_1?ie=UTF8&refRID=0JEFF7Z3XRDVQJFZBDQS

http://www.amazon.com/Dont-Make-Think-Revisited-Usability/dp/0321965515/ref=pd_bxgy_b_img_y

http://www.optimalworkshop.com/

SOME UX REFERENCES (CONT)

SILENCE THE SCREAMS.DON’T LET SCARY UI

HAPPEN TO YOUR USERS!Happy

Halloween!