In this post you will learn about insightful design lessons but it is up-to you whether you take any fucking action or not. If you are open to learn and determined to take actions to become better designer, read further.

I read a book “The design of everyday things” written by Don Norman. I read it around 7 months ago and worked on an app. And here I am with 7 fucking important practical lessons from last 7 months.

Without further ado, here it goes!

Users make fucking mistakes all the time even with the simplest things. It’s your job to minimize those errors and make them feel good about using your product not blaming themselves Make at least 3 user personas and keep them in front of your eyes all the time Assume that user can store maximum 3 things in his short term memory. Design the flow such as it does not exhaust the user’s brain power, no matter how trivial those things sound, just 3 things Read about mental models The navigation and actions should match the target user’s mental models Feedback is fucking important for each action user performs, user should always get the affirmation of their actions and know the outcome of their actions instantly. Good feedback removes the cognitive load(e.g. What happened to the action that I performed?), a bad or no feedback does the opposite When in doubt, fucking talk to the users

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