The President of Iceland

UX Podcast

S02E17 (#327). A linkshow. James and Per discuss two articles they’ve stumbled on. This time we feature articles about how certain features of e-commerce sites have to go, and how a design mistake impacted civic engagement in Iceland.

Article one is The lazy load, endless scroll, and color slicing have to go by Bethany Sadler-Jasmin.

“UX Designers have a unique opportunity to create safe havens online where we can help reduce some of that [cognitive] load or even eliminate it altogether. But more often than not, we inadvertently add to it instead.”

Article two is How do you accidentally run for president of Iceland? by Anna Andersen.

“Many of these [82] people are seriously vying for president (yep, my aunt Helga), some of them have undoubtedly signed up as a joke (nope, not the comedian), and at least 11 of them accidentally registered and had no idea that they were collecting endorsements for their candidacy.”

(Listening time: 40 minutes, transcript)

References:

• Full transcript for this episode
• Article 1: The lazy load, endless scroll, and color slicing have to go
  • By Bethany Sadler-Jasmin
    • Website: https://rebelsouldigital.com
    • Twitter: https://twitter.com/rebelsouldgtl
• Article 2: How do you accidentally run for president of Iceland?
  • By Anna Andersen
    • Website: https://annaandersen.com/
    • LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/annaandersen
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