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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)

Redesigning urinals to encourage men to wash their hands


In 1917, French painter, sculptor, and poet Marcel Duchamp inscribed the work source in that year's exhibition of the association of Independent Artists of New York. It was a crockery urinal signed by the pseudonym R. Mutt. At that time, he did not imagine that urinals would be a piece with different possibilities and needs of redesign.

UX methodologies can be applied, as you can see, to any user interface. The designer Kaspars Jursons (http://jursons.com) challenged himself to redesign public restrooms. The problem? About 1/3 of Americans do not wash their hands after leaving a public restroom, a problem more common among men than among women. Then, Jursons decided to propose a solution for this.

The solution proposed by the designer is a urinal with a sink attached to the top of it. This reduces the distance between the urinal and the sink, which in public toilets is usually a few steps away. Okay, those few steps do not justify the...