Top 10 UX Videos of 2023
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These are the videos published in 2023 that received the most views from our audience. Each video runs for 2–5 minutes, unless otherwise indicated.
- UX Resumes: 10 Things to Remove
Supercharge your UX resume’s effectiveness by prioritizing substance over style, reducing bias, and highlighting results. - Introducing a Participant to a Usability Test: A Demonstration
Facilitation experts demonstrate how to prepare a participant for the test session. Use a facilitator’s script to help remember the important information that participants need to know. - Awesome Resumes for UX Career Changers
Changing your career into user experience? Reduce stress and improve your job prospects by redesigning your resume to emphasize your UX education and job-transferrable skills. - Information Architecture: 3 Key Models
Navigation, taxonomies, and the full IA structure are different ways of modeling a product's structure. We review the differences and similarities between these three different IA models. - UX Strategy Components
Each component of a UX strategy plays an important role in helping teams work toward a better future state of the experience by aligning user needs with business priorities. - Common Fate: Gestalt Principle for User Interface Design
Things that move in synch are perceived as belonging to the same group and being different than other screen elements that stay put or move differently. - Content Strategy 101
Content involves 4 phases: planning, creation, maintenance, and removal. Done right, this enhances the business value of digital content and its impact on the user experience. - How to Use Empathy Maps
The empathy-mapping process helps distill and categorize knowledge of the user into one place, while the artifact serves as quick, digestible way to illustrate user attitudes and behaviors. - The System Usability Scale (SUS)
The SUS is a well-established 10-question survey administered at the end of a user test; it gives you a measure of the perceived usability of your product and enables you to compare it with others. - Usability Test Facilitation: 6 Mistakes to Avoid (6 minutes)
Become a better usability testing facilitator by avoiding common missteps, like asking leading questions or reacting to user behavior.
Bonus: Top 5 Videos from Last Year
These videos published in 2021 received so many views in 2022 that they would have been on the above list if they had been published this year:
- Five User Interview Mistakes to Avoid (6 minutes)
Probing vs. leading. Saying enough to make your participant comfortable but not so much you derail the research. 5 pitfalls in the user interview process are demonstrated so that you can avoid them the next time you talk with users. - Creating a UX Research Plan
Before starting any user research project, write down a research plan, preferably using a template that ensures that you don't overlook something. This keeps stakeholders informed and structures your own thinking. - User Story Mapping 101
User story maps visualize the activities, steps, and details users go through in a product or feature. Instead of heavy requirements documents, story maps communicate how the pieces fit together before design and development. - Design Thinking Activities
The 6 stages of the design thinking process can be supported by a very wide range of UX methods and activities. Don't limit yourself to the most commonly mentioned methods. - You ≠ User (UX Slogan #1)
The foundation of user experience is the difference between the people on the design team and the people using the product. You can't ask users to design, but you also can't ask the designers whether their own design will be easy for the target audience to use.
(We also have a playlist with all the top UX slogans.)