Oct 13, 2020
Love your Mac? Find your vacuum
cleaner cumbersome? Despair at the booking system of your local
leisure center? User experience design (or lack of) plays a
significant part in whether you love or loathe the products and
services you interact with.
This week on the Good Practice
podcast, Gemma and Ross D talk to Rhys Pendred, Emerald Work's Lead
UX designer. We focussed on the what, why and how of user
experience, discussing:
- What UX is
- UX fundamental principles
- How we might think about and improve the UX of our products /
learning.
Show notes
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Rhys mentioned Jacob Neilson's "10 Usability Heuristics for User
Interface Design". This article can be found online at https://www.nngroup.com/articles/ten-usability-heuristics/
If you'd like to find out more about UX in learning design, we
would recommend listening to our previous podcast "Design thinking
for instructional design" with Connie Malamed. You can find it here
https://podcast.goodpractice.com/78-design-thinking-for-ld
Rhys talked about Eddie Van Halen's quirky, brown M&Ms
stipulation. This is mentioned in The Independent's Eddie Van
Halen obituary. You can read the obituary at https://www.independent.ie/entertainment/music/obituary-eddie-van-halen-39608991.html
Gemma referred to a piece of research on muscle loading. It was
mentioned in Tom Goom's video "What muscles should runners
strengthen". The video is found online at https://www.running-physio.com/muscles/
Connect with our
speakers
If you'd like to share your thoughts on this episode, connect with
our speakers on Twitter / LinkedIn:
- Gemma Towersey @gemmatowersey
- Ross Dickie @RossDickieEW
- Rhys Pendred linkedin.com/in/rhys-pendred