Finding Happiness in User Interface Design

This talk was delivered at Front-End Design Conference in St. Petersburg, FL on June 22, 2013.

In today's web design, we seem to have reached a level of aesthetic saturation. Design has struggled to find happiness in the minimal. We will explore how micro-interactions can bring a sublime sense of happiness to the user. During this talk, we will explore how the nuances of User Interface Design can positively make a user remember their experience. Isn't that what we all strive for as designers? We seek to evoke emotion. By the end of our conversation, we will have examined and come to the conclusion that happiness bears no extravagant and excessive design. Rather, happiness is born out of the microinteractions that tap into the user's psychological emotion.

Transcript

1. How do you Decide?
2. “Some minor unimportant activity takes place somewhere in one of my brain hemispheres and I suddenly want to go to Montana” - Don DeLillo
4. DESIGN is beautiful decision making
5. RICARDO VAZQUEZ @iamrvazquez
6. The most beautiful photography in the world. The most beautiful photography in the world.
7. LOGIC | EMOTION
8. DESIGN PRINCIPLES
9. ONE THING TO REMEMBER
10. WE ARE ALL dESIGNers
11. WE ARE Human
12. Let’s get Back To the Question
13. WE ARE IRRATIONAL people
14. WE ARE EMOTIONAL people
15. WE crave Happiness
16. WE Find it IN THe LITTLE things
17. MicroInteractions
18. UI/UX Design Principles
19. Our vision is optimized to see structure.
20. Principles of Visual Perception GESTALT
21. Seeing Holistically
22. Proximity Similarity Continuity Closure
23. Proximity
24. The relative distance between objects in a display affects our perception of how these objects are organized.
27. SIMILARITY
28. Objects that look similar appear grouped.
31. CONTINUITY
32. Our visual perception is biased to perceive continuous forms rather than disconnected segments.
35. CLOSURE
36. Our visual system is strongly biased to see objects that it can even interpret a completely blank area as an object.
38. Vision : Structure Gestalt Principles
39. Our AttentioN Is Limited; Our memory is Imperfect
40. LEVEL ONE
41. LEVEL TWO
42. DESIGN IS MEMORABLE
43. WE ARE ALL dESIGNers
44. WE SOLVE PROBLEMS EVERY DAY
45. We Make decisions based on our emotions
46. We Make decisions based on our HAPPINESS
47. FInd what you Love
48. FInd what you will not surrender
49. Use it FOR GOOD
50. Thank you.