Apps Are Making Us Dumber

Explore the impact of modern app design on cognitive processes and decision-making in this thought-provoking 46-minute Devoxx conference talk. Delve into the challenges of declining attention spans and increasing decision fatigue in today's digital landscape. Examine the ethical implications of UX design that minimizes user choice, and discover how augmented intelligence is shaping a new era of anticipatory software. Learn about the shift towards proactive and distraction-free design, and its potential to both help and harm users. Gain insights into creating effective user interfaces, implementing predictive models, and designing for cross-platform compatibility. Understand the importance of participatory design, mitigating risks, and maintaining consistency in user experience. Reflect on the cultural shifts driven by these design trends and consider how to balance innovation with user-centric approaches in application development.

Introduction
How to create a user interface
Search
Fonts
Responsiveness
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Predictive Models
Defaults
Features
Keeping your users
Make sure youre doing a model
Focus on the user
Explanation
textual ambiguity
textual ambiguity examples
graphical ambiguity examples
think outside in
low risk environment
mitigate risk
notifications
focus
yes or no
data
crossplatform
participatory design
predictive design
recap
be consistent
easy to find
participation
user interruptions