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Interaction Design Trends 2015 & 2016

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Persuasive Paths<br />

Everyone knows the importance of suggestion. Because your interface<br />

is how you directly communicate with the user, you should design<br />

it for persuasion.<br />

Colleen Roller, Senior User Researcher at Merrill Lynch, provides<br />

some tips for improving user decisionmaking. Some of these tactics<br />

are adapted for digital content from interpersonal communication<br />

techniques, so let’s dive into more detail below.<br />

Salience<br />

Our discussion of designing for scanning extends beyond just the F<br />

or Z pattern.<br />

Salience refers to when an object appears more important than its<br />

surroundings. Both you and the user want to achieve their goals, so<br />

why not create a design that satisfies both your needs?

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