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Designing for Drunk Users with Austin Knight
Manage episode 179031000 series 1436861
“Your product or your website should be so simple and so well designed that even a drunk person could use it.”
In today’s episode of SEDaily, Jeff and Austin discuss why designing for a drunk user is a competitive advantage. Austin also explains why engineers need to think about UX and how they can incorporate UX considerations into development workflows.
Austin Knight is a designer and UX engineer at Hubspot.
Austin will be speaking at the upcoming Fluent Conference, and Software Engineering Daily is giving away a ticket to Fluent, which will be held March 8-10 in San Francisco. To be entered in a random drawing for this free ticket, tweet about your favorite episode of Software Engineering Daily between now and February 22nd. Make sure to tag us @software_daily and Fluent @fluentconf so we see your tweet.
Questions
- Why is UX design so important in 2016?
- How does UX testing drive modern UX design?
- Why should we consider the average internet user to be drunk when we design web products?
- What insights did you get from watching a drunk guy navigate your website?
- Why is there a conflict between what a user does and what a user says?
- How can you institutionalize harsh feedback into your tests?
- Is there any benefit in treating design like art, and intuiting how a product should be defined?
- Why should software engineers care about design?
Links
The post Designing for Drunk Users with Austin Knight appeared first on Software Engineering Daily.
104 episodes
Manage episode 179031000 series 1436861
“Your product or your website should be so simple and so well designed that even a drunk person could use it.”
In today’s episode of SEDaily, Jeff and Austin discuss why designing for a drunk user is a competitive advantage. Austin also explains why engineers need to think about UX and how they can incorporate UX considerations into development workflows.
Austin Knight is a designer and UX engineer at Hubspot.
Austin will be speaking at the upcoming Fluent Conference, and Software Engineering Daily is giving away a ticket to Fluent, which will be held March 8-10 in San Francisco. To be entered in a random drawing for this free ticket, tweet about your favorite episode of Software Engineering Daily between now and February 22nd. Make sure to tag us @software_daily and Fluent @fluentconf so we see your tweet.
Questions
- Why is UX design so important in 2016?
- How does UX testing drive modern UX design?
- Why should we consider the average internet user to be drunk when we design web products?
- What insights did you get from watching a drunk guy navigate your website?
- Why is there a conflict between what a user does and what a user says?
- How can you institutionalize harsh feedback into your tests?
- Is there any benefit in treating design like art, and intuiting how a product should be defined?
- Why should software engineers care about design?
Links
The post Designing for Drunk Users with Austin Knight appeared first on Software Engineering Daily.
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