The State of Mobile User Experience

From the Nielsen Norman Group….

Fifteen years from the original iPhone, the quality of mobile user experience has stabilized. Mobile standards have emerged and the lines between the mobile web and native apps are becoming blurrier.

Source: The State of Mobile User Experience

How to make bus stops better | CBC News

A really great story about how one person attempts to make a better bus stop sign.

Most bus stop signs tell you which buses are coming, but few reveal the stops it will make along the way. How can we change that and improve the bus-navigating experience? Uytae Lee shares his idea for a solution in the latest episode of Stories About Here.

Source: How to make bus stops better | CBC News

My Journey into Voice Prototyping | UX Booth

Interesting stat to the start the article: “According to Oberlo, approximately 71% of consumers even prefer to use voice searches over typing, so it goes without saying that people want to use their voices to complete actions. ”

Tools such as Figma and Invision can easily simulate the functions of a “clickable” user interface but are incapable of interactions by voice. Different prototyping tools are needed that allow users to actually speak to and hear audio feedback from an application. In this article, UX design researcher Jeff Villa shares his experiences and tips for creating a voice prototype using a tool called Voiceflow.

Source: My Journey into Voice Prototyping | UX Booth

Content hierarchy in action. Without a clear content hierarchy, our… | by Gillian Massel | Shopify UX

Great example on how they fixed their content where a user has to make a decision (before and after example provided).

Without a clear content hierarchy, our designs went from bad to worse. Here’s how we used content hierarchy to fix it.

Source: Content hierarchy in action. Without a clear content hierarchy, our… | by Gillian Massel | Shopify UX