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Usabilla Blog
blog.usabilla.com · Company blog · on HN since 2011
The blog of Usabilla, a user feedback company, covering usability testing, UX trends, and web design practice.
What HN saysHN links it for UX articles, such as its sign-up form guide and flat design critique, and a commenter argues against treating Google as a UX authority.
20HN people shared it
3linked it in comments
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Most-shared posts
- 1A guide to well designed sign-up forms2 people · 4 points · first shared 2012 · discussion on HN
- 2Flat Design Is Going Too Far2 people · 3 points · first shared 2014 · discussion on HN
- 3UX could be the death of UX2 people · 2 points · first shared 2014 · discussion on HN
- 4TechCrunch redesign UX analysis1 people · 29 points · first shared 2011 · 6 comments on HN
- 5The Best UX Articles of February 20141 people · 22 points · first shared 2014 · 3 comments on HN
- 6Ways for Usability Testing to Play Nice with Agile1 people · 20 points · first shared 2011 · discussion on HN
- 7Web Designers Should Just Become Designers: an Interview With Don Norman1 people · 17 points · first shared 2012 · 3 comments on HN
- 8Test before you spend: simple early stage user testing1 people · 17 points · first shared 2011 · discussion on HN
- 9The Handicap of Hype1 people · 14 points · first shared 2011 · discussion on HN
- 10The paradox of technology and how to avoid it1 people · 11 points · first shared 2011 · 1 comments on HN
- 11How to make your customers feel safe1 people · 11 points · first shared 2012 · 1 comments on HN
- 12Our 5 Favorite UX Articles (November 2013)1 people · 11 points · first shared 2013 · discussion on HN
- 13Test everything you got, regardless of its polish or fidelity1 people · 8 points · first shared 2011 · 1 comments on HN
- 14Persuasive design: we tested the decoy effect on our pricing page1 people · 7 points · first shared 2011 · 1 comments on HN
- 15Craft engaging personas for UX design using Smurfs. Not as crazy as it sounds.1 people · 7 points · first shared 2011 · discussion on HN
What HN people wrote when they linked it
smt88 · 2017-04-14
Google isn't some all-knowing authority on UX/UI. In fact, their UI is pretty terrible for most applications. It's hard to tell what you can or can't click. There are hidden controls everywhere.
You can decide to blindly follow standards or do some real user testing and see how well your UI works for people. Stand over someone's shoulder while they use it for the first time and see how quickly they figure it out. Do some A/B testing.
For the record, the UX/UI community in general had a lot of negative reactions to Material when it was introduced:
https://medium.com/tech-in-asia/material-design-why-the-floating-actio…
https://medium.freecodecamp.com/material-design-and-the-mystery-meat-n…
http://blog.usabilla.com/flat-design-going-far/
http://www.matthewmooredesign.com/almost-flat-design/
SideburnsOfDoom · 2014-03-14
> Oops, I just lost my customer deposits. I'm probably going to get lynched now. But hey, if I just hide this until I make the loss back from fees/reckless trading,
See also: loss aversion as a cognitive bias resulting in excessive risk taking http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loss_aversion http://blog.usabilla.com/how-loss-aversion-and-risk-influence-decision…
Also the London whale http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2012_JPMorgan_Chase_trading_loss Nick Leeson http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nick_Leeson et al.
> As far as we know, it never works.
You might not know if it does work, but due to the cognitive bias mentioned above, odds are against it.
mva · 2014-01-01
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