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Gamification is a design tool. You might call it a buzzword or a temporal rage but it is gaining proper academic support.
The most concise definition that I have come across is:
Gamification is the use of game element and game design techniques in a non game context.
Gamification needs voluntariness (if you are forced in a Points,badge system it is ...
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If having the perfect design is preventing you from launching a website or completing a contract (and getting paid), you may want to re-think what you're selling/shipping/delivering.
Dans ses écrits, un sàge Italien, dit que le mieux est l'ennemi du
bien.
Great is the enemy of good. Perfection takes much longer than adequate. Most of the time, and ...
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An article on effective resumes includes an interesting correlation between eye movement and (what the writer defines as) effective resumes.
We know that correlation is not causation - and resume evaluation is quite subjective. So, it's a weak connection. However, an effective resume (according to the writer) appears to cluster information in chunks that ...
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Fovea is relevant in case of forms and resolving proximity issues for example.
If you put error messages too far away from the cause of the error (like, the field which was left out), people aren't able to make a connection.
However, if there are other red elements as well, they aren't able to make a connection either.
This is a screenshot from Jeff ...
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This idea comes from the basics. That humans have a peripheral and a central vision. Central is what you user to user to look at things directly and to see details you use the peripheral vision. This one allows you see things in the corner of your eye and understanding the world around us.
People use peripheral vision when they look at a computer screen and ...
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It may also be a strange application of the fundamental attribution error.
The essence of the FAE is that people assume that they are not responsible for their failures.
People may simply assume that they're not responsible for the error - they blame the problem on the environment. In this case, they think that the error message is actually an error - ...
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