Tag: user experience
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CarPlay and the Age of Frankenstein UI
Rendering certain content on your smartphone, to be integrated with the car’s native user interface, leads to an inconsistent user experience.
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Why can’t calls on iOS just be muted?
So many zoom calls Simultaneous speaking Why no speaker mute? Tiffany McBride
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The Erosion of Console Game Quality
With the reduction of quality standards in favor of faster and cheaper submissions, the quality of game console ecosystems has been slowly eroding.
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CarPlay and cellular infrastructure
CarPlay is a great concept, increasing the lifespan of vehicles by potentially running their infotainment apps through connected smartphones with ever evolving software. It’s been around for a while now and it’s installed in millions of vehicles from different manufacturers. But it’s still a gimmicky feature, because a major point has been left out in the…
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Users will reset their devices!
With software in consumer electronics it can be reasonable assumed that stuff will crash.
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Why Paywalls Don’t Work
I don’t have a problem with paying for quality content and I believe, a large number internet users don’t either. If millions of people used to pay to have their newspapers delivered, why shouldn’t that work in the internet age? Especially in the last few years, with adblocker user base steadily increasing, online newspapers would…
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Widespread usage of public transportation isn’t just about cost; it’s about User Experience!
Getting more people to use public transportation isn’t just a financial question.
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How technological “fashion” demand phases out research on user interfaces
Advances in user interface development enable the inception of whole new categories of products. It’s tempting to apply these smart innovations to other products, without an inherent need to do so from the user experience perspective.
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Micro Maintenance
The fact that something will “only take a couple of seconds” is no excuse for disrupting the user experience and when considering to ask users for a favor, developers should not only think about what it means for their users, but what it would mean if similar products employed the same functionality. Years ago, when there wasn’t such a…