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User Experience: The Biased “Genius Mentality” While Building a Product And How to Avoid Them

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We start filtering facts with our own understanding. The actual fact is that no individual can distance himself or herself from the genuine needs of user. Through proper user research and working with the authentic environmental evidences . We have to work with more responsibility in building or designing a product, an app or website for users. These common “genius mentality” happens due to ignorance of knowledge, ego or laziness. We should avoid it at all costs so that awe-inspiring products, websites and apps can be build and design.

If you are designing a product or an application for users, than build it based on research and evidence, not on your false beliefs and genius mentality.

We often had the notion of “genius mentality” of knowing everything. “This is how the screen might work”. “This is what we should have on the homepage”. “This is how the design might work”. “This is the feature that can help the user”. We start predicting without doing proper research. And build a product without real life scenario and facts. We start imposing on to the user our personal likes and dislikes on color, shape, form, features. It leads to the failure of a product, website and an app.

Genius Mentality: Designing for yourself

Time and again, you design for yourself. This mistake confronts the belief of carrying out research. Always design for the user who in fact uses your product, app or site. Probability are, they don’t crave or need the same stuff you do. You’re making speculation without evidences about your user experience (UX). It can lead to failed product and devoid of usability testing. Without other forms of conversion research, you’re leaving money on the table.
 
The expression “Human error” to a user experience designer sometimes hints at deeper more systemic problem. Often it’s the case that errors seemingly caused by people are actually facilitated or outright caused by poorly designed systems.
 
Don Norman in his book “The Design of Everyday Things”, shares an anecdote. He went to investigate the reason of the Three Mile Island nuclear power plant episode. “The operators were blamed for these failures: “human error” was the immediate analysis. But the committee I was on discovered that the plant’s control rooms were so poorly designed that error was inevitable: design was at fault, not the operators.”
 
We often come across pitiable user experience every day. Don Norman wrap up that designer must be familiar with both technology, psychology. Machines are designed with the conjecture. that people will make errors and would behave unsatisfactorily.
 

Here are some tips by which you can avoid bad user experience:

 
1. Simplicity is king. Taking up existing industry prototypes and using them to your improvement and benefit.
 
2. To illustrate is very essential. It can done through right iconography, gestures in the design for app or website.
 
3. With proper usability research design for your actual users.
 
4. One must have the facts of the target users, and their understanding of the product.
 
5. Without testing the usability don’t bombard users. With call to action or put in place a “cool new thing” that you feel is cool with your so called “genius mentality”.
 
6. Splitting down larger complex model into smaller ones. With quick-witted message is vital to make certain that users find what they desire.
 
7. Need to to refine the design or content to make sure that the users understand the right message.
 
8. It is important getting constant feedback from the users. Using that feedback and to improve the design or content decisions.
 
9. Take steps to the user experience which is different in mobile than your desktop. Your Android user experience might still be diverse from iPhone user experience.
 
10. Don’t sacrifice clarity for being creative.
 
11. Understanding the users as the central part of user experience. To break this curse of “genius mentality” user experience practices are put together.

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Development of Explainable AI (XAI)

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Artificial Intelligence (AI) is a rapidly evolving field that has the potential to change the way we live and work. The latest research in AI is focused on developing more advanced and sophisticated AI systems that can perform a wide range of tasks with greater accuracy and efficiency. 

One area of AI research that has gained a lot of attention in recent years is deep learning. This is a type of machine learning that uses neural networks to model complex patterns in data. Deep learning has been used to achieve breakthroughs in areas such as image recognition, natural language processing, and speech recognition. AI is also expected to have a significant impact on the field of robotics. Advancements in AI are making it possible to develop robots that can perform a wide range of tasks with greater autonomy and intelligence. This has the potential to revolutionize industries such as manufacturing, transportation, and healthcare

Another area of AI research that is attracting a lot of attention is the development of generative models. These are AI systems that can generate new data, such as images or text, based on what they have learned. This has the potential to revolutionize fields such as art and design, music, and writing. Another area of research is the development of explainable AI (XAI), which aims to make AI systems more transparent and understandable. This is important for ensuring that AI systems can be trusted and used responsibly. XAI has been recognised by AI researchers as a crucial component of reliable AI, and explainability has recently attracted more attention. To address growing ethical and legal concerns Explainable artificial intelligence (XAI) is a useful tool for as well as important How? and Why? questions about AI systems. However, despite the demand for explainability across several disciplines and the growing interest in XAI research, XAI still has a number of drawbacks.

The creation of AI systems that can clearly and transparently explain their decision-making processes is known as explainable AI (XAI). This is crucial in circumstances when an AI system’s decisions could have broad repercussions, such as in the legal, financial, and healthcare systems. Here are a few instances of XAI in action:

  • Healthcare: An AI system that diagnoses medical issues must be able to justify its findings by referencing the patient’s medical history, test results, and other pertinent information.
  • Finance: An AI system that evaluates loan applications must be able to clearly explain the reasons a loan was authorised or denied, taking into account elements like income and credit history.
  • Legal: An AI system that helps judges make sentencing decisions must be able to provide a clear explanation of how it arrived at its recommendations, taking into account factors such as the defendant’s prior criminal history, the circumstances of the crime, and relevant laws.

In each of these examples, the ability to explain the decision-making process of an AI system is critical for building trust and ensuring accountability.

It is important to be aware of the potential of this technology and actively seek ways to harness its power for the benefit of society as a whole. The latest research in AI is focused on developing more advanced and sophisticated AI systems that can perform a wide range of tasks with greater accuracy and efficiency. From deep learning, generative models, explainable AI and robotics, the potential applications of AI are vast and it is expected to play an even greater role in the coming years, leading to new and exciting opportunities for innovation and progress.

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Extended Reality (XR), an evolving technology

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Extended Reality, or XR, is a catch-all phrase that refers to a variety of technologies, including Virtual Reality (VR), Augmented Reality (AR), and Mixed Reality (MR). These innovations enable the development of immersive and interactive experiences that converge the real and virtual worlds. In the world of entertainment and gaming, XR has several applications. Virtual worlds and games that can transport users to other locations and eras can be created using VR and MR. The fields of training and education are further applications for XR. Users can learn and hone new abilities in a secure environment by using VR and AR to create realistic simulations and scenarios.

The performance and responsiveness of XR applications have recently improved because to the utilisation of edge computing and 5G. Edge computing allows data processing to occur closer to the user, which reduces latency and increases responsiveness. The use of AI and machine learning to enhance the realism and interactivity of XR experiences is another breakthrough. For instance, MIT researchers have created a virtual reality (VR) system that uses AI to create realistic scenes and characters that react to the user’s input in real time.

A rapidly developing technology, XR has numerous potential uses across numerous industries. There will probably be more advancements and use cases in the near future since it enables the construction of immersive and interactive experiences that blur the boundaries between the real and virtual worlds.

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Multi-material printing and innovation in hybrid manufacturing

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A type of 3D printing called multi-material additive manufacturing allows for the simultaneous printing of numerous materials, each with a variety of unique features. This technology has a wide range of applications and the power to completely alter how goods are created. The production of intricate and personalised products is one use for multi-material printing. It can be used, for instance, to print items with various textures, colours, and even degrees of hardness or flexibility. This makes it possible to produce items that would be challenging or impossible to make using conventional manufacturing techniques.

Engineering and prototyping both use multi-material printing. It can be used, for instance, to make workable prototypes of things like gears and bearings, that have different properties in a single print. This can greatly speed up the prototyping process and reduce the costs associated with creating multiple prototypes. Multi-material printing also has applications in the field of medicine. For example, it can be used to create customized prosthetics and other medical devices that have different properties in a single print. This allows for the creation of prosthetics that are more comfortable and functional for the patient.

New printing methods and materials have been used recently in multi-material printing. As an illustration, MIT researchers have created a technique for printing with several materials using a single nozzle, enabling the production of things with various qualities in a single print. the practise of “multi-material jetting,” which enables the use of a single print head to print numerous materials simultaneously. For instance, the J750 3D printer, and J850, which aims to “push the boundaries of 3D printed realism” from Stratasys can print with up to six different materials simultaneously, such as transparent materials, rigid and flexible plastics, and even color-changing materials.

Innovation in “hybrid manufacturing,” which mixes various production techniques including 3D printing, CNC machining, and casting to produce items with distinctive features. For example, researchers at the Technical University of Munich have developed a hybrid manufacturing process that allows for the printing of high-strength aluminium parts with embedded electronics. 

Multi-material printing is a rapidly evolving technology with many potential applications in a wide range of industries. It has the ability to produce complex and customized objects that would be difficult or impossible to create using traditional manufacturing methods, and it’s likely that we will see more developments in the near future. 

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