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– PODCAST – Digital Health Apps and Gamification

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By now, almost everyone has heard of them or even used one themselves: Digital health applications, for example, are apps that can be used to treat illnesses from the comfort of your own home. Whether it’s for recognising endometriosis or, as in the case of Lena’s master’s thesis, an app for pelvic floor training, the choice is diverse.
We spoke to Lena about how attractive such so-called DiGas are ultimately designed for end users and how gamification can even help users to use them better and more regularly.

– PODCAST – UX consulting in fixed-price projects

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Today’s podcast covers essential aspects of UX consultancy in fixed-price projects. Not only will we explain the differences between user experience (UX) and usability, but we will also highlight the important role of human-centred design (HCD), especially in terms of user-centred activities that can be implemented efficiently in budget and timeframe. We will highlight experiences from previous fixed-price projects, taking a closer look at both best practices and pitfalls to avoid.

– PODCAST – Design thinking in practice

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This time it’s all about Design Thinking!
Design thinking is a creative methodology originally from the human-centred design process to solve problems in general. Our colleague Angie Eck, describes what design thinking is in concrete terms, why diamonds are important in it and how she has used it in the context of software development.

Adobe Experience Design – Review

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tl;dr? A summary and pros and cons list can be found at the end of this article plus some useful shortcuts.

The German version of this article is published here.

What is Adobe Experience Design?

It’s Adobe’s missing piece for rapid prototyping of interactive wireframes and simple sharing of those. Design some screens for your app, pull some arrows between them to define interaction, check your work in the preview mode, share the link and do a live demo directly on your phone. The workflow is surprisingly easy.

The tool is currently available for Mac only in version 0.5.2. It’s a preview, hence we will be lenient and wait for features like layers and scrollable boxes.

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