Seductive Interactions: a tech take
Today I’d like to share a guest post by SusanaB, Chief UI Consultant for FluidUI. Her world is all about developing better interactions and her post is an interesting perspective on how a UX designer takes into account how people think and work.
Susana does some cool stuff – here’s a quick rundown from her:
We create intuitive user interfaces for web, mobile and software. Our user-friendly clients include Sprint, Hallmark and emfluence. Give us a holler at 816.561.2315.
Seductive Interactions
SlideShare’s “Seductive Interactions: An Art & Science” is an engaging presentation on design strategy. Of the 175 clicks I found click 85, most valuable – its title: What Do We Know About People?
they listed | my ux take |
We’re curious |
Don’t list features and functions, let users discover them |
We’re also afraid of change |
Forecast changes and promote upcoming redesigns |
We seek patterns |
Be predictable, have consistency in menu, headers, colors, etc. |
We like to order and organize things |
Sort options, customize pages, Flickr Organizr |
We’re intensely self centered |
Tell a friend, favorites, iLike, StumbleUpon |
We’re lazy |
175 click slides are manageable w/a jump feature |
We’re visual thinkers and learners |
Thus SlideShare and demo video popularity |
We like to be the hero of the story |
We promote our thoughts and actions (blog, tweet) more than others |
We don’t like to make choices, but we like choice |
We are entice by Chrome’s market growth, but we just can’t leave FireFox |
We like to be in control (and to be guided) |
Allowing users to choose when to upgrade and provide demos |
We find novelty and surprise interesting |
New features and functions keep us coming back for more |
and so on |
We can generalize about people/users, but should always seek their feedback and act on it |
Thanks for reading my hero story. Here is the Seductive Interactions show, for more novelty and surprises.
Thanks for the thoughts Susana
Shawn Kinkade Kansas City Business Coach