User Experience

www.sciencenews.org

> In human-horse partnerships, horses primarily communicate nonvocally. For instance, their ears tend to point toward whatever they’re paying attention to. This behavior could inspire the creation of robots with electronic “ears” that can swivel in the direction of a ringing doorbell or people talking near an autonomous vehicle, thereby alerting humans to these sounds, Jain says. “Instead of the robot saying, ‘Knock on the door. Beep, beep,’ if its ears were to point toward the door, it’s a much less jarring, much more subtle way of informing” people that the robot hears something it’s paying attention to.

I've seen people suggesting improvements to sign-up which mostly amounts to hiding technical language (servers, instances, fediverse) and adding clearer signposts. I'm also seeing discussion on GitHub around UI improvements to the website as well as native apps. Example: https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy-ui/issues/1183 What's stood out to you so far? Where are the quick wins to improve usability and accessibility?

I stumbled across this sub from the community search page - I'd be happy to start posting content here, if anyone's interested. I'd love to see a UX research community, too.

uxuncensored.medium.com

A good article to make better understanding of UX and avoid misconception about it. In partucular I wanted to mention the part it emphasis on "user" > UX is not UX if it does not include insights from actual users.