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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 sogen »

TheOtherHobbes wrote: post #44
crawfordcomeaux wrote: post #26

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Dark design will become much darker once we start designing for emotions with more intention. Emotionally manipulative UX will spread. It will be combated by UX designed to implicitly teach emotional responsibility, regulation, and resiliency.

I don't think the latter is the job of UX. I think it may be the job of AI. I'm imagining that a few decades from now everyone will have a personal AI "guardian angel"/personal assistant, which filters and defangs online bullshit, distills the most useful/effective information using its own context aware initiative, and presents it in a form that's customised to be ideal for individuals, given a lifetime of knowledge…

Cool! A personal Navi (Zelda)

Re: Where will UX Design be in 5 years?

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Post by sogen »

crawfordcomeaux wrote: post #26
crawfordcomeaux wrote: post #10

UX design will start shifting toward taking human emotions into account. Our metrics will also start shifting toward reason-/need-oriented data.

Dark design will become much darker once we start designing for emotions with more intention. Emotionally manipulative UX will spread. It will be combated by UX designed to implicitly teach emotional responsibility, regulation, and resiliency.

Not so sure on the teach responsibility part, or how so you explain Casinos?

Re: Where will UX Design be in 5 years?

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Post by rileymat2 »

"A full picture of the Mac’s UX design includes advertising, store layout, the purchase process, the box, the documentation, how it feels to hold, the esteem and social meaning of owning it, and so on."

At some point does it become so all encompassing to be meaningless as a term?

Re: Where will UX Design be in 5 years?

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Post by whytaka »

seanmcdirmid wrote: post #34
pavlov wrote: post #30

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Designs have to be implemented in something. Currently UX designers are often like chefs who work by drawing pictures of food and writing down conceptual recipes. When they've created a beautiful menu this way, they're surprised to find out that their recipes can't actually be made using the cooking equipment available, and some of the ingredients don't even exist. You're not going to run a Michelin-rated restaurant…

You really underestimate the amount of time it takes to practice and do adequate UX design; unless you spend 10,000 hours doing design, you are going to suck at it, and most of the jack of all trades designers devs I met have really been mediocre at both. "Designers should code" is as fallacious as "accountants should be lawyers". Specialization has been the direction of human civilization ever since the neolithic re…

I have spent 10000+ hours doing design and I've got to say that my leap into code (especially backend) has been incredibly eye-opening. I've realized how so much of design is ego-driven, how design studios design for design awards, and what a crime it is that so many technical minds are steered to work on problems more related to fashion than accessibility or productivity.

Designers should definitely code. Too much of design is siloed in fanciful thinking, and fancy people competing with fancy people over fancy things perpetuate delusion.

Re: Where will UX Design be in 5 years?

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Post by noblethrasher »

rileymat2 wrote: post #63

"A full picture of the Mac’s UX design includes advertising, store layout, the purchase process, the box, the documentation, how it feels to hold, the esteem and social meaning of owning it, and so on." At some point does it become so all encompassing to be meaningless as a term?

We might need a new all-encompassing term, but UX is definitely theater.

The stuff on the screen is just one of many props used in the “performance”.

Apple seems to be the only company that gets this.

Re: Where will UX Design be in 5 years?

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Post by LeoPanthera »

sogen wrote: post #59
wlesieutre wrote: post #46

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While we're at it, can we kill the fixed headers that waste 10-20% of my screen space on every page? I already know what website I'm on, thanks.

Add to that the "EU cookies" notice.

Adblock Origin has an optional blacklist you can turn on to kill those. Look in the settings. It's called "EU: Prebake - Filter Obtrusive Cookie Notices"

Re: Where will UX Design be in 5 years?

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Post by Animats »

quickben wrote: post #27
zzzcpan wrote: post #16

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"Microsoft will move the start menu to a different corner of the screen again." Aren't they transitioning to a new business model that doesn't incentivize marketing-driven design anymore?

Where did you read that? All I'm seeing is more and more ads in win 10 as time goes on.

Next, Windows video ads you can't block that only appear when you have a projector connected, chosen by adtech which reads your PowerPoint presentations.

Re: Where will UX Design be in 5 years?

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Post by dpark »

seanmcdirmid wrote: post #57
dpark wrote: post #42

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Designers must understand the media they work in. Design involves tradeoffs and accommodations for practical limits. A designer who doesn't understand the capabilities of the systems they design for is destined to produce bad designs. You can't understand the limits of CSS unless you can work with it. Imagine if Apple hardware designers depended on their manufacturers to tell them what's achievable with aluminum and…

Yes. But this is far far far away from "designers must code." Except for a few unicorns, this just leads to people who are mediocre at both design and code. A designer who is bogged down in code will also produce bad designs, especially when they let their inability to think of how something will be coded (because they aren't advanced coders) limit them! Designers have their own tool chain to prototype UIs and user i…

I'm not sure what you're responding to. Did someone say that designers should do all their own coding?

Re: Where will UX Design be in 5 years?

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Post by crawfordcomeaux »

sogen wrote: post #62
crawfordcomeaux wrote: post #26

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Dark design will become much darker once we start designing for emotions with more intention. Emotionally manipulative UX will spread. It will be combated by UX designed to implicitly teach emotional responsibility, regulation, and resiliency.

Not so sure on the teach responsibility part, or how so you explain Casinos?

Casinos = dark design. Of course they wouldn't teach emotional responsibility.

Re: Where will UX Design be in 5 years?

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Post by crawfordcomeaux »

TheOtherHobbes wrote: post #44
crawfordcomeaux wrote: post #26

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Dark design will become much darker once we start designing for emotions with more intention. Emotionally manipulative UX will spread. It will be combated by UX designed to implicitly teach emotional responsibility, regulation, and resiliency.

I don't think the latter is the job of UX. I think it may be the job of AI. I'm imagining that a few decades from now everyone will have a personal AI "guardian angel"/personal assistant, which filters and defangs online bullshit, distills the most useful/effective information using its own context aware initiative, and presents it in a form that's customised to be ideal for individuals, given a lifetime of knowledge…

Your proposed solution externalizes all of the things I said. Instead of teaching humans how to human, it sounds like you're proposing to pawn off that role.

That's why it's a UX problem: to make us more human, not less.

You know the phrase "First learn to do it right, then learn to do it well"? Maybe let's hold off on externally augmenting humans until we've learned to human properly.

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