UI vs UX bullshit!
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Oh you really think that you know something about UX or UI?
As a kid I tried every single stuff what has buttons and i could caught my hands on.
I had to lie to my teachers to help them out with the media equipment in the classroom because connectionf a simple television to a vhs recorder was difficult for a teacher. My story was always the same: let me handle that we have the same stuff at home I know hot to control it.
I pulled to pieces everything what I could just to see how it works, my father loved precision mechanics so it was almost allowed to do this, and only stipulation was that I had to put everything back, so that it works :) Meanwhile I was learning how to draw, what was actually hell. For almost 6 months I drew almost nothing just cubes, spheres with or w/o shadows, and lame still-life pictures. I did not realize what I was doing, but this still helps me out a lot :)When I was working as a junior ad (somewhere in 1999) and tried to move to gui-interaction design it was Information Architecture and Usability what I had to learn because they got me there. I was asked about IA on a designer job interview and surprisingly had no idea about that, and I went mad. After some research realized that my professional knowledge is almost nothing in this subject and I use the right methods but not consciously, and completely miss the right lingo.
After this I was drawing and site-building layouts without any grid or device independence, but they where always precise, and we made sure that it looks close the same on every device or resolution (yeah fluid layouts, and flash :) We made AB tests, we achieved high conversion rates just putting the CTA to the right spot. It wasn't documented why and I did had to put the ideology behind a single sign-up form :)
So I say fuck all "UX experts" and here is why:
You can't draw.
Fine-motor skills like drawing are essential to get close as possible to human interaction with digital devices. At the time I draw something on the paper with my instrument I attend three steps ahead you :) So please if you can't draw things on a plain paper with pencil you should go back to the school.You drive a car (the car is just a symbol for isolation).
Put your self inside a box and you will never see real people doing real things. Driving a car is a great example how people with a big ego distance themselves from the "average". But wait whose are the people whom you doing this? Today I fire ignorant egoist people because I don't need workforce who looks down on the users or lives in an isolated world.
"I'm unique. I'm introverted. I'm an artist" ok f. off.You buy the latest iphone.
Somewhere 10% of the users have the latest gadgets so why we need to lick their asses?% :)
Yes I have one, but I also have an iphone 1, and a 6 year old android running kitkat :) And I always test things on these devices if it's possible, just to get closer to the average user :)You read all articles about ux.
80% of the current content on the internet in this subject is more or less related to a business interest (business blog, roundup-portal, etc ). Half of the articles are bullshit, and the the other half of the usable content is for a separated micro community covering more-or-less existing issues but almost no solutions. good luck finding the real stuff :)If you can draw something you can see at the second that it works or not, like a good carpenter :) so don't trust the carpenter who can't draw the furniture what you requested.
UX in the current form is really close bullshit,
mostly because how we create value by it.UI was bullshit, but now everything is on it's right place and even templatemonster survived the purge:)
ps: next time someone asks me to create an audio player application what combines the best features of Netflix, Spotify and some shitty joga app, I will kill that mofo.