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DON’T BECOME OVERLY HABITUATED<br />
When I have to design for a system that I don’t normally use, work gets hard. All of us,<br />
designers and users, become habituated to the systems we use most. My own habits as an<br />
iOS user are different from those of an Android or Windows Phone user. I still have a hard<br />
time using the back button on Android devices when I switch over from using my iPhone.<br />
Understanding the little details of each platform will help you be aware of polishes that<br />
users will really get pissed off about if you forget or ignore them. I once showed the<br />
drawing below to a class of mostly iPhone users and asked the Android owners to tell me<br />
what it was.<br />
They had no idea because it was using the language of another system. If you want to<br />
become a good UX designer, you have to become multi-system-lingual.<br />
An iOS app icon with a badge in the top right is unfamiliar to Android users.
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