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Where will UX Design be in 5 years?

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Re: Where will UX Design be in 5 years?

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Post by mshenfield »

Design Lab seems like they have an excellent program, based on reviews and seeing some course material.

I think they're bullish on "new markets" for UX design (understandably). It seems like UX is the last thing companies prioritize and the first they boot. And it's not really a mystery why - most projects still fail to deliver basic functionality, let alone provide a thoughtful user experience [0].

[0] http://www.cio.com.au/article/533532/why_it_projects_really_...

Re: Where will UX Design be in 5 years?

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Post by k__ »

The problem I see with UX today is that there is a split.

One the one hand are the people who just want to make good products people love to use.

On the other hand are the corps who want to use this as a tool to direct people in a way that they spent more money for nothing gained.

Re: Where will UX Design be in 5 years?

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Post by k__ »

avodonosov wrote: post #4

Have there been anything new in UX since 1970s?

Probably the same as with programming, so no, haha.

But, we can always use all the research that went into desktop machines and sell it as new things for mobile and web.

This works better than I initially thought, lol.

Re: Where will UX Design be in 5 years?

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Post by capkutay »

I see a couple challenges with the future of UX design. One being that everyone has an opinion as to how something should work. Unless someone has years of widely-recognized, valid experience/expertise in design, who's to say if one person's instincts are better than another's?

The other issue I see is process taking over creativity. Soundcloud's iconic design was driven largely by the intuition of the designers and developers. What if they let 'user feedback' and 'UX research' drive the design instead? Would they have created the same interface? Maybe someone can easily knock my points down but at least thats how I see it. To be clear I think UX research is a great tool to improve features, but in general I have a hard time trusting it when it comes to conceiving a new feature.

Re: Where will UX Design be in 5 years?

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Post by hacker_9 »

To be honest UI dev tools just plain suck, making everything move more slowly that it needs to. If I'm on the web it's the HTML + CSS clusterfuck, If I'm in C# I'm writing color converters for WPF, if it's Java I have to use the outdated looking Swing, if it's C++ it's QT which I need to doll out cash for. Additionally every smart phone OS has it's own groundbreaking GUI layout concepts and ideas too.

Then you get the layers on top, Xamarin or Eto.Forms or X, that convert down to the native widgets or just create their own entirely. These usually come with a healthy dose of missing functionality, such as mouse drag detection.

And then there are the languages with no UI libraries at all. As if this is even acceptable in 2017.

All in all, whoever decided GUI frameworks were a good idea got it very very wrong indeed. This stuff should have been standardized long ago, stored in some universal data format, and then every programming language could add support for it. They would want to add support for it. Closest to this is HTML of course... but, well, I think everyone would hope for something more elegant.

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