
Designing for Social Technologies: Responsible Privacy Design
Concerns about negative social consequences can be a barrier to online participation. UX designers have the opportunity and responsibility to design for overcoming this.

The Cost of Bad Design (Book Review)
Tragic Design, by Jonathan Shariat and Cynthia Savard Saucier, reveals how design choices can negatively impact users and provides techniques to avoid harmful design decisions.
Evaluating Smart Speaker UX: Guidelines and Approach
As the IoT world continues to expand, researchers need to understand what to take into account when evaluating and improving the design of smart speakers.

The Fourth Lens: Making Design Thinking Work for Digital Health
When designing healthcare experiences, we need to prove the effectiveness of our solutions as much as we need to consider their desirability, feasibility, and viability.

Creating and Implementing a Scorecard System to Increase Organizational User Experience Maturity
In this article, the author walks through the process they used to build and roll out a user-centric scorecard to help teams increase UX maturity.

A Day in the Life of a UX Manager
A look into the daily life of UX managers who play a unique role in UX practice.

Can Voice-Driven Virtual Assistants Help Eliminate Physician Burnout?
Cumbersome medical software is a leading cause in physician dissatisfaction and burnout. But that story could change if physicians had a voice-driven virtual medical assistant.
Human-to-Human Interaction Style in Voice User Interface Design
Voice-enabled devices are gaining the ability to mimic human-to-human interactions fairly well. This article outlines some general guidelines to consider when designing voice user interfaces.
The Perils of Low-Hanging Fruit: Assessing “Viability” within the Minimum Viable Product
UX design teams reaching for low-hanging fruit for MVP products may fall into the trap of focusing on “minimal” to the detriment of “viable.”
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User Experience Professionals Association (UXPA) International supports people who research, design, and evaluate the user experience (UX) of products and services.

