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Fixing Bad UX Designs

You're reading from   Fixing Bad UX Designs Master proven approaches, tools, and techniques to make your user experience great again

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Product type Paperback
Published in Feb 2018
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ISBN-13 9781787120556
Length 348 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Lisandra Maioli Lisandra Maioli
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Table of Contents (14) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Understanding UX and its Importance FREE CHAPTER 2. Identifying UX Issues – UX Methodologies 3. Exploring Potential UX Solutions 4. Increasing Conversion with UX 5. Using UI and Content for Better Communication 6. Considering Accessibility As Part of the UX 7. Improving Physical Experiences 8. Improving IA for Better Navigation 9. Prototyping and Validating UX Solutions 10. Implementing UX Solutions 11. Measuring UX Solutions 12. Keeping Up to Date 13. Other Books You May Enjoy

Simplifying an elevator panel (but not much)


Besides digital and/or online interfaces, UX can also help us to identify and fix bad experiences with more analogue interfaces, such as elevator panels.

Basically, a good design should make the user have the least doubts and think as little as possible about what procedure they should use to achieve the result they want, except where doubts are intentionally created and make sense in the context of design. For the most part, if in doubt, the design is probably not clear enough.

Look at this elevator buttons:

 

Now, imagine the situation: someone might have stopped and thought that in this arrangement, the aesthetics of the button frame would look better. This person might be thinking: "But and now? Does the arrow correspond to the button that is aligned vertically or horizontally? How do you know?" You can even push the two buttons to ensure that the elevator you want will arrive; it's not as if you would get stuck in the building for that. However...

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