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Many sites provide an array of methods to interact with their offerings, but excesses in decision-making pressure can render less empowered visitors into a cyclone of stress from the barrage of questions being asked. As an industry, we place a great deal of emphasis on getting visitors to make decisions, but are we turning a straightforward path into a labyrinth with our need to know?
"At a strategic level, it's identifying and understanding the audience and finding ways to communicate value with them effectively. At a tactical level, it involves looking more at interaction design and usability problems."
Slideshare deck containing: cognitive & social insights into how people respond to narrative, the context in which they are receptive to novel ideas, and the application of those insights to the design of experiences.
Setting limits is not solely about not using design elements. It is much more about focusing on the few genuinely important elements that are required to convey the message of your website, and adding in other design elements only when they support the key elements.
To bring UX to the heart of the business, you must persuade colleagues to trust your opinion and expertise. Handling critique well is an important way to earn trust. It’s easy to undo your hard work with rash disagreement. Never dismiss stakeholder feedback out of hand. Every designer makes mistakes, and there will always be approaches to a problem that you’ve not considered.
In this column, I've covered a lot of territory. I've discussed some very important concepts in decision architecture: anchoring, ordering, framing, and loss aversion. Each of these concepts plays a significant role in how people perceive the nature of a decision and the available options, as well as in driving the decision outcome itself.
When we understand how these concepts affect perception and decision making, we can use them productively in architecting better decision-making experiences for people and be more effective in helping organizations achieve their business objectives.