There had been quite a lot of pet projects as far as I can remember, but none stuck around and felt home as much as this. Surprisingly went through, the whole 9 yards with developing this book, but of-course with immense help from the closest people around me & my wife.
Category: My Journal
Designer building trust
As a designer we play a major role in developing trust towards a brand. UX is no different and following are the pillars of trust building for any designer;
Illustrator exercise
Task Management App
The psychology of likes
Does knowing how many users interacted with a story, photo, or a blog post, influence your judgment on whether to like/dislike it? Are the likes and comments economy creating a bias in our responses?
I wanted to talk about the power of user experience design and how it has this dynamic, vivid ability to transform a product (for better or good) – simply by envisioning it’s interactions differently. For example; A social media domain adopting an unbiased subjectivity for users and how they may interact with individual items by concealing the likes/dislikes.
Users can engage with other’s posts without having to know the creator, no.of views, likes &/or comments – hence not being influenced to whether like, comment, or follow the user.
“Regardless of whether the inquiry is how to manage an unfilled popcorn enclose a cinema, how quick to drive on a specific stretch of thruway, or how to eat the chicken at an evening gathering, the activities of everyone around us will be significant in characterizing the appropriate response.” – Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion, by Robert Cialdini.
There is a heuristic the majority of us use to figure out what to do, think, say, and purchase: the standard of social evidence. To realize what is right, we are influenced by what other users are doing.
Asch’s conformity experiment also draws a similar conclusion in a different setting, where users may be influenced by social pressure from a majority group to conform to a rule.
Hence it is important to understand that tools such as likes/dislikes, comments, subscriptions, followers, etc may be a digital currency to resonate with the individual’s status, yet these are prone to bias and false interpretation.
A proper UX design research for say designing a door would include all aspects of design to the point of calculating even the granular details that might effect it’s interaction/experience with the user. Whereas UI designer's job would be interpret and implement the defined aspects of that door in to a tangible/interactive form.Sherjeel Javed
An idea is like a fart, If you have to force it then it's probably shitSherjeel Javed