Deep dive into aspects of UXD Flashcards
The broad discipline of UXD can broken down in the UX Quadrant Model (four disciplines). How many should you focus on?
Most UX designers have a broad understanding of all four quadrants but only focus on one or two. ExS - Experience Strategy IxD - Interaction Design UR - User Research IA - Information Architecture
What is Experience Strategy?
The best UX designers are adept at integrating business, technical, and design strategies to bring value to not only the customer using the service, but also the business providing the service.
What is User Research?
The ultimate goal of the UX designer is to utilise qualitative and quantitative data to determine a problem and formulate a solution. Many large companies and startups proceed blindly without any real interaction or feedback from current or potential customers. Good research can often mean the difference between a meaningful experience that solves an actual human problem and a dissatisfying experience that fails to address a real human need.
How does Hoa Loranger at the Nielsen Norman Group, explain the importance of User Research?
As stated by Hoa Loranger at the Nielsen Norman Group, one of the leading UX and UI consulting firms in the U.S., “UX without user research is not UX.”
What is Interaction Design?
Armed with user feedback, interaction designers aim to create seamless interactions between a system and its users. In technology, this interaction is commonly facilitated by a digital interface. The goal of interaction design is the synthesis of experience strategy, user research, and information architecture into one intuitive design. This design should facilitate the efficient completion of core tasks, providing value to the people interacting with your product or service.
What is Information Architecture?
Humans have been trying to record, categorise, and store information since the dawn of communication. With the invention of the internet in 1989, we’ve marched faster still towards this new “Age of Information.” Information architects have used a number of different techniques to facilitate the effective, accessible, and meaningful organisation of information in the digital age. This is why we can successfully navigate stores and digital devices to find what we need, when we need it.
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