How a Design Specifications Template simplified and gave consistency to our team's communication with engineers and product managers. — Why develop documentation guidelines and templates? Different initiatives happening simultaneously, different teams, and ways of communication are challenging not only to designers but also engineers and product managers. We struggle to communicate effectively and durably.

I’ve always been shy, with problems communicating, and not confident in myself, hiding who I am from the world. I spent a lot of time reading when I was growing up. It was a way of finding myself in all the books I encountered. It fascinated me how not only…

Exploring how New Horizons prevents errors through the lens of the 10 usability heuristics — In this series about the 10 usability heuristics, I have covered four heuristics on four different games: Visibility of system status on The Witcher 3 Match between system and the real world on Her Story User Control and Freedom on Baba is You Mass Effect: How to Indoctrinate Users with…

How the Mass Effect trilogy makes use of the fourth UX heuristic: consistency and standards — It has been a while since I wrote something; it almost feels like starting from scratch. I was checking my previous stories on heuristics and noticed I have covered three of the heuristics so far: Visibility of system status in The Witcher 3 Match between system and the real world…

Exploring Nielsen’s Heuristic with a game that allows you to rewrite the rules — In my last article about Jakob Nielsen’s Heuristic and games, I talked about the importance of a match between a system and the real world with a great example of a game that recreates a real-world system to immerse players in the game: Her Story. This time I will focus…

In the first article about Jakob Nielsen’s heuristic and critical systems, we talked about system status visibility — the importance of informing users about what is happening to empower their decision-making process. Usability Heuristics on Critical Systems — #1 Visibility of Status One of the biggest names in the UX world, Jakob Nielsen, focused a big part of his career on usability and came up with…medium.com

Exploring the alignment between in-game systems and the real world — In the first article about Jakob Nielsen’s Heuristic and video games, I talked about the visibility of system status and The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt. The importance of informing users about what is happening empowers their decision-making process. This time I will focus on the second heuristic, the alignment between…

One of the biggest names on the UX world, Jakob Nielsen, focused a large part of his career on usability and came up with several usability methods — including probably his most famous, the heuristic evaluation. The heuristic evaluation allows us to identify usability issues in software by looking at…

A UX case study focused on the visibility of status — Jakob Nielsen, one of the biggest names in the UX world, focused a big part of his career on usability and came up with several usability methods, the most famous one being the heuristic evaluation. The heuristic evaluation allows us to identify usability issues in software by looking at 10…