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> (You wouldn’t believe the thought/effort/testing that can go into the shape, color, details, etc. of a web app button.) I beg to differ. A/B testing minutiae

by hsn915 4y ago

> (You wouldn’t believe the thought/effort/testing that can go into the shape, color, details, etc. of a web app button.) I beg to differ. A/B testing minutiae like the exact shade of color is not UX research; it's merely the pretense thereof. All the people doing this research are not exceptionally brilliant: this is easy to deduce by noticing how everything is getting objectively worse. > UX design (I’m not speaking of other aspects of design) isn’t really a creative process as much as an engineering discipline. Absolutely wrong. It's creative in the sense that you can't quantify it with scientific measures. UX is coming up with the iPhone when all the smart phones in your era had a small tiny screen and a 4x4 keyboard.

comfypotato 4y ago
Not sure if this is trolling. Please don’t be mean to me. Your comment is abrasive. I can assure you that engineering departments do in fact teach classes in which the lecture material is based on research regarding the color and other aspects of design elements. The parent discipline is “human computer interaction”, and “user experience” is a narrowing. I’ve sat through an hour long presentation about a single button used to meet an accessibility mandate in California. The presenter spent months employed with the purpose of designing the button and designing tests to ensure the correctness of the button. The size, shape, color, and sub-images of the button all contribute to its effectiveness. Coming up with the iPhone as a creative example of UX doesn’t make me wrong. It’s at the intersection of design and engineering in the same way UX scientists have to brainstorm research directions. My comment was specifically regarding the formal field of UX as a subfield of HCI, and it’s correct and relevant to the subject matter of the article in that websites and apps look the same because there is a state of the art in the engineering discipline of UX.

by hsn915 4y ago

comfypotato 4y ago

Not sure if this is trolling. Please don’t be mean to me. Your comment is abrasive. I can assure you that engineering departments do in fact teach classes in which the lecture material is based on research regarding the color and other aspects of design elements. The parent discipline is “human computer interaction”, and “user experience” is a narrowing. I’ve sat through an hour long presentation about a single button used to meet an accessibility mandate in California. The presenter spent months employed with the purpose of designing the button and designing tests to ensure the correctness of the button. The size, shape, color, and sub-images of the button all contribute to its effectiveness. Coming up with the iPhone as a creative example of UX doesn’t make me wrong. It’s at the intersection of design and engineering in the same way UX scientists have to brainstorm research directions. My comment was specifically regarding the formal field of UX as a subfield of HCI, and it’s correct and relevant to the subject matter of the article in that websites and apps look the same because there is a state of the art in the engineering discipline of UX.