Experience Learning Too

Just for fun, our MSc UX Design project submission for a speculative design proposed an in-ear translator for around 2025-2030. A World first product is actually emerging in 2021.

Sigma Pods - Speculative Design Update | Pat Godfrey | Blog | User Experience Comparing our MSc UX Design speculative design project"s Sigma in-ear translator concept against an emerging world first solution.

Accessibility. It depends? Design wisely? An introduction to the intricacies of hide and show HTML dialogs and my frustration with ableist guidelines.

Inclusive dialog design or accessibility seems to be a myth | Pat Godfrey | Blog | User Experience I want to do the best for all of our users inclusively and at most every turn I find with accessibility, "it depends" actually translates to, "so what?" Dialogs just stink.

Discussing an example of when we accept that and rely on our users adapting to our design when we should be accommodating their specific needs. Screen reader access to our special character rules is one pattern. In this blog I give a summary of the problem and discover solutions.

Special characters accessibility and usability | Pat Godfrey | Blog | MSc UX design 2018-2020 Adding usability and accessibility to special HTML characters and punctuation for screen reader and visual users

‘Older’ people aren’t inflexible or resistant to change or learning new processes. They are sick of it. Early adoption of fashion and tech leading to littering the attic, garage, or other space. Betamax, cassettes, VHS, VHS-c, MiniDisc, CD, DVD, BluRay, BluTooth, Word Processors, fecking how many phones and different SIM card form factors!? Even domestic phones with ‘legacy’ plugs or sockets. Good Sinclair, Microsoft, Sony, and other computer programs and apps or TVs and radios no longer supported and the only good news left is on vinyl. All died before the full value of their price could mature. So next time you update your UI, bare in mind those people who have adapted, updated, and modified so much already. Do it for a positive purpose and because it’s needed.