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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?
#132I 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…
I think you don't understand the design process. Not being bitchy, so let me explain. Instinct should be 1% of design if anything. Design isn't about colors and pretty, it's about a detailed process that includes data structures, mapping processes, analysis of users' behavior and removing all instinct and subjectivity from the process of design. It should include a minimum of guesswork wherever possible. It always am…
Design should be data informed but not data lead. Simply because data tells you about the situation now but rarely is it enough to create a model in order to predict the effect of future changes accurately. Further data generally doesn't fully describe whats happening and must be interpreted. This means both the act of understanding the product use and improving the product remain subjective at the point of design. It's only later after the product has been changed we can verify our designs.
People with good taste and domain knowledge aren't going to go away anytime soon.
Re: Where will UX Design be in 5 years?
#133Earlier quoted context omitted.
Wait, wait, I've been in an OSX/AdBlock/uBlock bubble since Windows 7, are you saying that the latest mass consumer version of Windows has advertisements built in like network television?
Yes. The login screen has "click to buy this desktop wallpaper" ads and occasionally paid ad placements (I believe there was a tomb raider one). And recently they've been putting their cloud drive (OneDrive??) ads in explorer (even for the pro edition). It was one of the final straws that pushed me back to linux.
The crazy thing is that it does that per account apparently.
I ran few tools under my admin acc and I stopped seeing most of the crap.
I saw my wife clicking the start menu under her account on the same PC, and sure enough, ads there.
I think I'll just move Win10 under a VM to preserve some apps and run Linux.
Re: Where will UX Design be in 5 years?
#134To 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 th…
I'm working on something much more elegant that takes designers above the focus of "HTML+CSS code" to an abstraction that makes sense. Similar to webflow, but allows you to continue to build out your app without having to drop down into text editing. A solution may be closer than you think ;)
Interested hear more about your approach. I'm also trying to solve it with Pragma - https://www.laktek.com/2016/11/29/introducing-pragma/
Here's a little sneak peak: https://twitter.com/laktek/status/845815533450682370
Re: Where will UX Design be in 5 years?
#135To 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 th…
Sun NeWS should have been that GUI standard, thirty years ago: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NeWS There was a simplicity and purity in its approach to front-end interactivity and rendering that completely eludes the HTML+CSS+JS stack we're now stuck with. As the Wikipedia article states... "NeWS was architecturally similar to what is now called AJAX, except that NeWS coherently: used PostScript code instead of JavaSc…
If you have compilers and GUI tools, how does it matter than the underlying layer is HTML+CSS+JSON? The designer shouldn't see it anyway.
Now that we have a web-aware platform (which NeWS was not), nothing stops us to create good UI tools on top - yet it is happening very slowly.
Re: Where will UX Design be in 5 years?
#136/I am UX designer/
UX is becoming more differentiated, more different UX roles and positions will occur:
UX Researcher - is already there
IA Architect - will be more common
UX Analyst - is collecting and interpreting data from Keboola-like tools (or "Hadoop-based" tools collecting data about user base), providing additional data to UX researcher
"Prototyper" - coder responsible for technical clarity of coded prototypes and their preparedness to be inherited into production
UX designer - responsible for synthesizing data from research and applying them into the product/service in proper context; preferably a people-person, as he/she connects all other sides
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Re: Where will UX Design be in 5 years?
#137It will be more in the background and not do much in your face as it is today.
Manual inputting information is not the way forward, automatic adding information based on context is.
In five years UX will be less UX.
Re: Where will UX Design be in 5 years?
#138/I am UX designer/ UX is becoming more differentiated, more different UX roles and positions will occur: UX Researcher - is already there IA Architect - will be more common UX Analyst - is collecting and interpreting data from Keboola-like tools (or "Hadoop-based" tools collecting data about user base), providing additional data to UX researcher "Prototyper" - coder responsible for technical clarity of coded prototyp…
Thats just the business around UX not UX itself.
Re: Where will UX Design be in 5 years?
#139/I am UX designer/ UX is becoming more differentiated, more different UX roles and positions will occur: UX Researcher - is already there IA Architect - will be more common UX Analyst - is collecting and interpreting data from Keboola-like tools (or "Hadoop-based" tools collecting data about user base), providing additional data to UX researcher "Prototyper" - coder responsible for technical clarity of coded prototyp…
Thats just the business around UX not UX itself.
Re: Where will UX Design be in 5 years?
#140/I am UX designer/ UX is becoming more differentiated, more different UX roles and positions will occur: UX Researcher - is already there IA Architect - will be more common UX Analyst - is collecting and interpreting data from Keboola-like tools (or "Hadoop-based" tools collecting data about user base), providing additional data to UX researcher "Prototyper" - coder responsible for technical clarity of coded prototyp…
Thats just the business around UX not UX itself.
It's setting of roles, as UX is no longer a one-person business (as you say).