deadly sins of bad design
TRANSCRIPT
Deadly sins of bad design
DRIBBBLE MEETUP, WARSAW 2016
Kamil Zięba Designer/Head of Design at UXPin
UXPin — Design Platform
The Malkovich Bias – is defined as the tendency to believe that everyone uses the web the same way as you do.
Don’t assume you have the best ideas
Falling in love with the first idea
Nope
Start with low fidelity (paper, wireframes)
Create alternatives (a lot!)
“You don’t find anything out until you start showing it to people”
– David Kelly, founder of IDEO
Seek feedback and expose your work early and often
Breaking mental modelsBreaking mental models
Credit: “brain picture”. Allan Ajifo.
Mental model is a person's internal, personalised, contextual understanding of ‘how something works’.
Mental models are based on incomplete facts, past experiences, and even intuitive perceptions.
Designing best-case scenario
Designed
Live
– forget about “Lorem ipsum…” – think about constraints – don’t forget about empty states – and again … test with people
