About
Laws of UX is a valuable resource for designers, providing a collection of best practices to consider when building user interfaces. This tool is particularly helpful for designers, developers, and anyone involved in creating user experiences, as it offers insights into how users interact with interfaces and how to design more intuitive and user-friendly experiences. By understanding these laws, designers can create interfaces that are more aesthetically pleasing, easier to use, and more effective.
Details
The following are the key features and laws included in Laws of UX:
- Aesthetic-Usability Effect: Users perceive aesthetically pleasing design as more usable
- Choice Overload: People get overwhelmed with too many options
- Chunking: Breaking down information into meaningful groups
- Cognitive Bias: Systematic errors in thinking that influence perception and decision-making
- Cognitive Load: The mental resources needed to understand and interact with an interface
- Doherty Threshold: Productivity soars when interaction pace is less than 400ms
- Fitts’s Law: The time to acquire a target is a function of distance and size
- Flow: The mental state of being fully immersed in an activity
- Goal-Gradient Effect: Approach to a goal increases with proximity
- Hick’s Law
