UX Design Beyond the Internet: Three Offline Exercises for App Designers
While the term and job title of UX Designer was born recently out of the tech scene, the practice of user experience design has been crucial to product development since the first time someone handed a friend their latest invention and asked: “What would you do with this?”
The layout of a retail store, the design of a cash machine, the ergonomics of your fancy cheese knife; these things are not simply decided by chance and whim or, at any rate, in the search for perfection, they shouldn’t be.
There is always an argument for the great design being art in its ignorance to necessity, but ultimately form follows function in the products we use day to day. And they have been honed and refined during many years of what we would now call UX testing, analysis, and iteration.