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Fixing Bad UX Designs

By : Lisandra Maioli
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Fixing Bad UX Designs

By: Lisandra Maioli

Overview of this book

Have your web applications been experiencing more hits and less conversions? Are bad designs consuming your time and money? This book is the answer to these problems. With intuitive case studies, you’ll learn to simplify, fix, and enhance some common, real-world application designs. You’ll look at the common issues of simplicity, navigation, appearance, maintenance, and many more. The challenge that most UX designers face is to ensure that the UX is user-friendly. In this book, we address this with individual case studies starting with some common UX applications and then move on to complex applications. Each case study will help you understand the issues faced by a bad UX and teach you to break it down and fix these problems. As we progress, you’ll learn about the information architecture, usability testing, iteration, UX refactoring, and many other related features with the help of various case studies. You’ll also learn some interesting UX design tools with the projects covered in the book. By the end of the book, you’ll be armed with the knowledge to fix bad UX designs and to ensure great customer satisfaction for your applications.
Table of Contents (14 chapters)

Creating magic experience in parks


MagicBand is a gateway to My Disney Experience, the digital system that integrates different Disney services. It is a plastic bracelet that has a built-in radio frequency chip, the so-called RFID. With this chip on the wrist, Disney can identify you inside its parks, shops, and hotels and offer you various personalized experiences.

Containing your personal information, Disney's MagicBand connects you to different services within the Orlando resort to ease your flow through the complex. It is worth saying that wearing the bracelet is a magical experience, like almost everything that is done there. On the front of the MagicBand, there is a symbol of a Mickey in high relief. Touching this symbol on the sensors scattered throughout the parks, which also has a Mickey design, makes this MagicBand work.

For example, to enter the park, just touch the Mickey of the bracelet with the Mickey that is on the ratchet of the park. When light turns green, you can enter....