Salutations

[gjl]

Hello,

I go by gjl. I'm a 22-year-old male from Australia, and work as a User Experience (UX) Designer, although I am more drawn to both extremes of the art-science spectrum than something closer to the middle (UX being closer to that middle). I am trying to pursue a career as either an artist/illustrator or a neuroscientist, or both. I do experience some math anxiety that hinders my comprehension and confidence with mathematical subjects, a flaw I am slowly working on improving.

I am glad to have found a community of likeminded individuals. I fail to put to words my knowledge of self–a problem many of us experience, I am certain–and am better suited to answering questions you may have (recognition over recall, after all).

 

[Pyropyro]

Welcome gjl

Well you can make one field as your main vocation and the other as your hobby.

 

[fishmanfresh]

Any themes you can share about UX design? Any metaphorical relations to physics/nature? I'm not a designer by trade but something which instinctively seems important are redundancies i.e. having several buttons/ways to do the same thing in order to accommodate several thinking/navigational patterns.

 

[gjl]

Any themes you can share about UX design? Any metaphorical relations to physics/nature? I'm not a designer by trade but something which instinctively seems important are redundancies i.e. having several buttons/ways to do the same thing in order to accommodate several thinking/navigational patterns.

I don't understand what you mean by themes. We do not rely too heavily on metaphors from science, although I do see a neuroscience/psychological extension of this field in the next few years, e.g. "how can this gamification platform elicit an increase in dopamine signalling in our users?".

To accommodate for different thinking patterns and styles will remove much of the standardisation of the field, however fairly comprehensive applications such as Adobe Photoshop do allow for multiple ways to generate the same outcome. Simplicity is well sought after in this field.

A metric I can see arising in this field is the quantification of the usage complexity in designed products and services. It is largely a problem of standards and best practice synthesised with novel solutions to new problems and will take some time to develop.

 

[redbaron]

Hi m8 I'm from Melbourne.