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Compensatory vs Noncompensatory: 2 Decision-Making Strategies

Ease users’ purchase decisions by designing interfaces that support both compensatory and noncompensatory decision-making strategies. (7 min. to read)

Vote By Mail: Mistakes Are Too Easy

The design of vote-by-mail materials (made imperative by the COVID-19 pandemic) have UX issues that make the voting process unnecessarily difficult and error prone. (7 min. to read)


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Vocabulary Inflation in UX (Jakob Nielsen Mini-Keynote)

The user experience field is plagued by vocabulary inflation: repeatedly replacing well-known terminology with new fancy words that cause miscommunication. (13 min. video)

Findability vs. Discoverability

Locating features or content on a website or in an app happen in two different ways: finding (users look for the item) and discovering (users come across the item). Both are important, but require different user research techniques to evaluate. (3 min.video)

Virtual Tours

User interfaces that simulate a presence in a physical space allow people to tour an environment without travelling there, but were mostly considered secondary by our research participants, partly because it’s currently slow and confusing to navigate virtual tours. (4 min.video)


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