A short article on Competitive Analysis with links to a variety of articles
“Carrying out a UX competitor analysis will empower your business choices. But how? Through researching the competition, you can glean insights from the data you collect and make informed UX design decisions.”
Source: How To Do A UX Competitor Analysis: A Step By Step Guide – Usability Geek
Simple video article with some decent points about interviewing
Summary: User interviews have become a popular technique for getting user feedback, mainly because they are fast and easy. Use them to learn about users’ perceptions of your design, not about its usability.
“You cannot understand good design if you do not understand people; design is made for people” — Dieter Rams
As Benjamin Storm, PhD, lead author of the study, put it: “Memory is changing. Our research shows that as we use the internet to support and extend our memory we become more reliant on it. Whereas before we might have tried to recall something on our own, now we don’t bother.”
“This must be our new design mantra: There when you need it, invisible when you don’t. It would be much better than what we believe today: There when you need it, incessantly begging you to come back when you don’t.”
Source: It’s Time for Digital Products to Start Empowering Us
“Designing for mobile is currently a surefire way of making sure an experience gets into the hands of the most users possible. Not everyone has smart glasses right now, but nearly everyone has a phone. However, a mobile phone was not necessarily designed for AR experiences and therefore has a lot of points of friction.”
Source: A designer’s guide to hardware and software for mobile AR
A nice walkthrough of this podcast aggregator that is built on user needs and ease of use. Notice the clarity and specifics of the download and delete functions.