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Augmenting the user’s skills, not just their reality
Breaking the rules of AR in five demos, accidentally scaring people on the internet — code included
A voice speaker for train stations
You hear a lot of train station announcements that are not relevant for you. With voice speakers for train stations, all announcements are relevant for you
A chat bot took my money and left me in Mexico City
Here’s the bot’s own story and what it learned
Your UI is your product’s humble compensation for not being telepathic
Take a few products and keep asking “what is this compensating for?” and you’ll eventually end up with the same answer. And that answer may be why conversational interfaces could get in trouble
How I hated code and decided to spend an hour writing it every day for a year
How to hack yourself to enjoy learning to code
What I need from a shop’s website
It's not surveys, cookie warnings, discounts, or gift inspiration
Finding out which things to throw out
Here's what you can safely throw out and not regret it later
Why designers should be on a button budget
It's free to add a button in an app. It shouldn't be.
What would reality do?
I like to think of software as a person in a service conversation with the user. The user would be a teenage girl ordering concert tickets or a hung over dad figuring out how to turn on his phone. But the software would always be a professional. Even better, the software acts and makes decisions as if it were among the world’s best in what it is doing. Why shouldn’t it? As interaction designers, we spend hours preparing for a simple five minute conversation. One way to apply this could be imagi