Hi.
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I'm kind of nervous
because I have a confession to make
I'm not actually a developer
So my topic today is
Why UX?
Why it should matter to developers
I actually struggle with this problem at work
... quite a bit.
When I talk to people in the tech team
One programmer even told me the other day
"There are no rules in design"
Imagine if I said the same thing
"There are no rules in programming"
Yes, so I'm just going to share a bit about UX
and hopefully sort of convince
you guys to being concerned with it.
So, UX is actually short for User Experiences
and they're taking place around us every day
We interact constantly with products
both digital and physical
Doesn't mean that it has to be a tangible thing
It can also be intangible
And while we use these things
we are actually attempting to accomplish..
a goal.
This attempt to accomplish a goal
leads to us having a user experience.
And it can be a bad one. Yeah.
This is what the design VP of AirBnB said..
"Engineers create things and
bring concepts to life."
I think the same thing is true for developers.
Developers also create things and
bring concepts to life.
So when developing your product,
could be an app or a site
User experience is usually a part of the
design process that we don't hear about
unless something goes wrong.
But it's actually something that should be
an integral part of the design process
right from the very start.
And all the way until you get your
final product.
So, what is UX actually?