Ed O'Keeffe

By day a senior user experience advisor, focusing on information architecture and usability. By night, a travel and landscape photographer. Opinions are my own

[Ed O'Keeffe @edwud]

@AqaraSmarthouse Smart doorbell with cameras and smart locks as Terry said

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@henrycooke Air over pro unless editing video IMO

[Matt Turck @mattturck]

I think about this almost every day

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@SweetReleaseWLG Happy birthday!

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@chrissybrown $825 for a 2 bed 2 bath apartment in central Wellington

[Namya @ Supafast @namyakhann]

Neil Patel tested 3,000 landing pages.

To find the difference between high and low-converting ones.

Here are the 10 elements of pages converting at 2%+ had in common:

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Coconut tree and lagoon at night

This was one of my most experimental and my favourite night shots I captured in Rarotonga, Cook Islands. https://t.co/sM36sleRVj
#cookislands #photography #rarotonga #nightphotoraphy #rarotongacookislands #beachatnight

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@NHammondDesign Geocities portfolio website? Wordpress?

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@HeyMarkL 86% on my iPhone 12 Pro Max. Used daily 3-4hrs screen on time per day since new

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@TheDrugMoney Soft close toilet seats

[UX Links @uxlinks]

Excellent Design Workflow UX Knowledge Base Sketch to boost your UX Design Process! 🔥🔖

FREE Sketch Cheatsheet Attached! 🙌

A Process Design Workflow including activities for Research, Design and Testing.

Overview:

RESEARCH:
- STAKEHOLDER INTERVIEW
- DOMAIN EXPERT INTERVIEW
- SECONDARY RESEARCH
- FEEDBACK REVIEW
- COMPETITIVE ANALYSIS
- CONTENT INVENTORY
- QUANTITATIVE RESEARCH
- HEURISTIC EVALUATION
- USABILITY TEST ON THE EXISTING SITE/APP
- SITEMAP

DESIGN:
- USER STORY MAPPING
- JOURNEY MAPPING
- SCENARIOS
- PERSONA CREATION
- EMPATHY MAPPING
- SYNTHESIZING RESEARCH DATA
- SURVEY
- DIARY STUDIES
- USER INTERVIEW
- CONTEXTUAL INQUIRY
- STORYBOARDING
- DESIGN SPRINT
- PRIORITIZATION
- INFORMATION ARCHITECTURE
- USER FLOW
- SKETCHING
- EMPTY STATE
- ONBOARDING
- OFFBOARDING
- DATA MODELING
- INTERNATIONALIZATION & LOCALIZATION
- UX WRITING MICROCOPY
- DESIGNING FOR ERROR
- MICROINTERACTION
- PROGRESSIVE DISCLOSURE
- AFFORDANCES
- FITT’S LAW
- HICK’S LAW

- DESIGN SYSTEM
- FORM DESIGN
- DATA VISUALIZATION
- UI ANIMATIONS
- CONVERSATIONAL UI CHATBOT + VUI
- WIREFRAMING & PROTOTYPING

TESTING:
- CARD SORTING
- USABILITY TESTING
- TREE TESTING
- 5 SECOND TEST
- FIRST CLICK TEST

OTHER IMPORTANT DISCIPLINES:
- BEHAVIORAL ECONOMICS (EG.DECISION-MAKING)
- COGNITIVE PSYCHOLOGY
- COGNITIVE BIASES
- UX &HUMAN MEMORY
- PROGRESS & PERCEIVED PERFORMANCE
- MENTAL MODELS

OTHER ASPECTS:
- STORYTEWLING
- DOCUMENTATION
- EMOTIONAL DESIGN
- ALLESSIBILITY
- DEVELOPMENT ASPECTS
- DESIGNER-DEVELOPER COLLABORATION
- GAMIFICATION
- DARK PATTERNS
- GESTALT PRINCIPLES

And there are many more methods, tools and aspects.
One thing is for sure: You should always take into account the Business Goals (Viability), the Users' Needs (Desirability) and the Development Aspects (Feasibility).

#ux #ui #uxdesign #uidesign #uxprocess #uxstrategy #uxresearch #usability #usertesting #users #customers #research #design #productdesign #webdesign #mobile #business #startup

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@Kent_NewmanWGTN Couldn’t agree more

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@brad_frost Triple Decos is what I’d recommend. Works perfectly for our 110 square metre duplex

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@svpino Completely agree. I use the mini version and it’s the best keyboard ever. MX Master 3S also the best mouse in my opinion

[Adam Silver @adamsilverhq]

7 things I wish I knew when I started learning about accessibility ↓

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@jdomito_ 🍎

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@Capt_Caffiend I’ve had a couple of jigsaw puzzles framed but back in the UK. Most decent framers should be able to do it assuming you’ve made the puzzle up for them. I recommend Art for Arts Sake for the best framing in the city in my opinion

[Adam Silver @adamsilverhq]

UX tip.

Less animation.

More content design.

[Aravind Srinivas @AravSrinivas]

This actually happened to Evernote. They took the advice of “keep talking to your customers and ship whatever they want” as the only guiding principle for product development. And what ended up happening was paying users liked it, but the product become unintuitive and feature overload for the new user. To the extent that they had to rebuild a version for the new user.

Users don’t always know if they really want something. It’s your job to take the extra step to think on their behalf: whether they really need this. Or can what they ask be done through something much simpler. Or can you solve multiple problems of different users with one new redesign rather than a bunch of changes. The right principle is: “Keep talking and listening to your users, spend the additional time thinking on their behalf what they actually want, and ship that”.