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- Have you ever wondered why the world’s most successful websites and apps often feel so familiar, even the very first time you use them?
- Did you know that the visual beauty of a design can actually trick your brain into believing a product is more functional than it really is?
- What’s the secret to keeping your users from feeling overwhelmed, and how many pieces of information can the human mind actually handle at once?
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Key Takeaways from Laws of UX
- Discover why leaning on familiar design conventions minimizes mental effort and helps users focus on your content rather than struggling with your interface.
- Learn how to apply Fitts's Law by optimizing the size, spacing, and positioning of interactive elements to prevent frustrating user experiences.
- Master the art of streamlining information through progressive disclosure and 'chunking' to prevent overwhelming your users' decision-making and working memory.
- Understand how to build resilient, adaptable designs that seamlessly accommodate diverse user inputs, screen sizes, and viewing contexts.
- Find out how leveraging emotional peaks, memorable endpoints, and attractive aesthetics can significantly improve how users perceive and remember your product.
Laws of UX — Full Chapter Overview
Chapter 1: Recommendation
Chapter 2: Jakob’s Law and Fitts’s Law
Chapter 3: Hick’s Law and Miller’s Law
Chapter 4: The peak-end rule and Postel’s Law
Chapter 5: The Von Restorff effect and the aesthetic-usability effect
Chapter 6: The Doherty threshold and Tesler’s Law
Chapter 7: In search of ethical design
Laws of UX Summary & Overview
Laws of UX (2020) is a handy guidebook for anyone interested in user experience, or UX – especially as it applies to web or app design. It lays out some of the fundamental rules that inform superior product design and shows how these rules are tied to human psychology.
Who Should Listen to Laws of UX?
- Web designers and developers
- People curious about technology and human behavior
- Anyone who’d like to create a better website
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