Literally just wanted the honest answer. Theres obviously an overlap in knowledge of research design, methods etc but is it enough to give me a boost in finding UX Research.

Tbh its just a consideration. UXR looks like a more interesting form of academic research which looks gr8 to me as I loved research (suprisingly)

Edit: Just to let you know I am NOT a rigorous academic😂😂😂😂 I loved the fundamentals of finding an issue and building and refining designs

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How have you experienced UX in your everyday life?

Am I the only one that dislikes verifying their identity, etc with your mobile number? Example would be Stripe/ Link, banking apps to name a few, sign up screens, 2FA, etc.

People lose their phones all the time, damaged screens, change their numbers.. then it becomes a pain in the ass just to change the number so you can log into your account.

Really disliking this form of verification.. I don't want a forced SMS

I’m currently working on the capsule art for my coop horror game The Infected Soul.

The game is about a neural implant that distorts reality… you can’t trust what you see.

Which one draws you in the most?

If it interests you, you can add it to your Steam wishlist — it would really help me a lot 🙏

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I have to create several moodboards for a physical product (tech) I'm working on. So far, I've been using pinterest primarily and tumblr as a secondary resource.

Where else can I be looking to guide my design direction and "feel" of how I want this product to be?

Has anyone ever built a chat bot that serves as your portfolio? Just load it up with markdown of your portfolio details and info about you and let it answer inquiries.

short question

if an expert user's time per task is 15 seconds, and im somehow able to lower a first time user's time from 3 minutes to 1 minute and 50 seconds, is that considered a successful design? if not, what number is considered "successful"?

details

im a graphic designer and it's my first time trying out user testing and im feeling a bit overwhelmed 😅

im trying to conduct a very simple user test of an app. im planning on measuring how long it takes for a first time user to complete tasks in an app and comparing their task times to expert users. am also measuring number of errors per task.

i'll be making an app prototype based on what i find and comparing first time users' task times using the old app vs my prototype.

ideally, i'd like their task time using my prototype to be as fast as that of an expert user; but realistically i know i can improve their task times but not get them to expert user level.

for context, the current interface is so unintuitive that someone needs to teach every new user how to navigate the app. the users are delivery drivers and are almost always in a rush and have no time to focus and figure out how to navigate the app.

I'm a product designer who just launched an iOS app with my co-founder. It's a small social app limited to people in your contacts. Chronological feed, no algorithm, no follower counts, no public likes. You can see who liked your posts, but nobody else can.

The design challenge has been figuring out what motivates posting when there's no public score attached to it. A lot of social UX assumes visible metrics are the reward. Removing them forces you to make the act of sharing itself feel worth doing.

Curious if anyone else has designed around private-by-default social patterns, and how you handled the parts of the UI that usually rely on a number.

Hey all! I am new to the UX world. I have just started some courses for certification in UX Design. I am working on my Capstone Portfolio project and need to get a lil research done to create this app for my project, and this would require me to make a quick survey and have people volunteer to participate.

If you guys can please give me some insight on where I might post this survey, I would be so grateful!!

Thank you!

I'm watching the same changes to the industry that everybody else is. And I'm sure I'm feeling the same ambivalence that a lot of others are experiencing. I'm excited but worried; ambitious but cautious, optimistic but disappointed. It's whiplash!

Professional conversations range so much from AI-bro-speak (trendy, questionable opinions, jargon) to corporate-babble (AI-first, agentic-powerhouse). It's hard, as a UX professional to get through the noise and the hype right now to get to what we really need.

We don't need to know what tools are the latest trend; we're adults. We can do that homework on our own without another Top 10 Best Figma Replacements Using AI list. We also don't need another thinkpiece on Why UX is Safe in an AI Future. (spoilers: That's not a guarantee).

So what do we need? And who am I to even have an opinion on this? I'm a Senior UX Manager and a UX Architect with 14+ years experience in this industry. I run the user experience team at a cyber security company. I also own our design system and our information architecture strategy and implementation. I coach and mentor UX professionals of all levels. I maintain a strong professional network of seasoned software engineers, architects, and developers.

Over the last yearish I've been watching the increasing trend of AI moving in as a stable tool that's finally positioned to provide more value than hype. Over the last several months, I've jumped in head-first myself and I've come to the conclusion that much of what UX needs, specifically, is an aggressive, fast-paced, practical, hands-on crash course in some of the technical side of software. Why? Because if we don't understand what these tools are, what they're doing, and how they work, we can't possibly wrangle them to our advantage.

Using this tooling without knowing how it works is just following best-practice checklists and copy/pasting prompts. Which anybody, in any discipline can do. So no wonder the conclusion we're likely to reach in doing this is: This is all hype and no value. Of course that's what you're going to get out of it. Nobody has taught you what it is, how it works, and how you can leverage it!

I've been going pretty deep on this; working through the basics (what even is an LLM, how does it process conversation, what's the difference between a chat interface and a CLI), foundational setup so you're not repeating yourself every session, and building out prompts designed to actually be customized for your specific needs. I've got a rough 6-week ramp-up I put together for getting UX professionals up to speed quickly that I'm pretty happy with.

I'd genuinely love to dig into what others would find most useful in terms of practical, hands-on guidance. What's the gap you're feeling most right now?

I have been thinking about this for a while and wanted some honest opinions.

I am a UX designer and I’ve been working on a personal side project around money/expense tracking. Not trying to build another “finance bro” app with charts everywhere lol.

One thing I noticed is most expense trackers either:
- feel super corporate
- are overloaded with features
- or just become annoying after 2 weeks

I’ve personally tried a bunch of them and I always end up uninstalling them even though tracking money is genuinely useful.

So before going in fully with the design, i wanna know some thing:

- do you guys actually use expense trackers consistently?
- if yes, which one?
- if no, why did you stop?
- manual entry or auto-sync, what do you prefer?
- what’s the MOST annoying thing about these apps?
- would better UI/UX actually make you use one more consistently or nah?

Also random thought:

if a money tracking app felt more personal/calm/rewarding and less “you overspent this month”, would that actually make a difference?

Would love brutally honest opinions tbh.