Psychology and UX


1. 10 Usability Heuristics for User Interface Design

Jakob Nielsen's 10 general principles for interaction design. They are called "heuristics" because they are broad rules of thumb for UX and not specific usability guidelines.

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2. What Is Cognitive Load?

Follow these 3 tips to reduce cognitive load and help your users: avoid visual clutter, build on existing mental models, and offload tasks.

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3. Delightful UX Is Like a 3-Legged Stool

Delight can be experienced viscerally, behaviorally, and reflectively. A delightful design must consider all three of these pillars.

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4. Empathy Mapping: The First Step in Design Thinking

Visualizing user attitudes and behaviors in an empathy map helps UX teams align on a deep understanding of end users. The mapping process also reveals any holes in existing user data.

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5. When to Use Which User-Experience Research Methods

Modern day UX research methods answer a wide range of questions. To know when to use which method, each of 20 methods is mapped across 3 dimensions and over time within a typical product-development process.

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6. When and How to Create Customer Journey Maps

Journey maps combine two powerful instruments—storytelling and visualization—in order to help teams understand and address customer needs.

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