Microinteractions - application design and user experience.

Micro interactions They are more than just animations and much more than the aesthetics of the design, they take into account the simplicity of the action, the target audience, the language, The user experience.

Micro interactions: application design and user experience

Micro-interactions are "moments" that have a unique effect around the achievement of one task, for example clicking a registration form button as an interesting summary of the action you performed on the form, or giving feedback to a post on Facebook in the context of social engagement.

Microinteractions” is a fairly young concept in the world of app design and user interfaces. You can find micro-interactions anywhere you look, such as turning on the light switch on an electrical circuit breaker, turning the volume knob on an amplifier, turning off and on an electronic device, slamming a car door, and more...

What all micro-interactions have in common is that they are all built and designed to accompany a specific task. One in a way that produces the maximum experience and the right context for the user.

Let's take VOLVO as an example, the company is known for the safety of its vehicles, the company invests a huge fortune in employing engineers who will produce the right door slamming sound that will convey security, isolation, acoustics and power. For us, everyday tasks are of course taken for granted, but in some cases, if we open this part of our mind, we can notice the subtleties and details that professionals have planned to reach the right context and the perfect experience.

Some tasks require a series of interactions such as filling in fields in a registration form, selecting dough boxes and other options. If the interactions include the set of actions of a registration form, then the microinteraction is clicking on the confirmation button of the form and the context is the confirmation of all the actions you performed in the form and a prompt for the next action.

The development of Internet technology (CSS, HTML5, frameworks) all of these brought with them amazing animation tools for activity, however most designers use these tools only because "it's beautiful" but without the right context this aesthetic has no complementary experiential value.

You want the application you are planning, besides the branding and the professional design template, to have clear language. This language must contain legality toMicro interactions. In other words: what each button does and how it behaves in different reaction modes when you activate it.

Of course, different factors must be taken into account, such as messages, error messages, success, continuation of the experience path, colors, motivation to action, and the like.

If there's one thing I've learned from microinteractions, it's that our users are very high maintenance.

Our users are impatient, they become frustrated quickly, and if something is not immediately clear they are happy to switch to another competitor without batting an eyelid!

Micro-interactions start with a trigger; this is the language of your communication with the user and your way to leading them in the desired experience. For the user, this communication should be clear and intuitive; it is clear to him where to click to perform which action, and it is clear to him what comes next and where the continuation of the route you have outlined for him is.

עיצוב user experience Good at application or data interfaces makes all the difference. If you are on the way to production user experience In your product, always remember that you want to criticize yourself from the point of view of your users.

Empathy is a human emotion, this means that the key to designing user interfaces for an application or data interfaces is user leadership and humanity. User interfaces designed to operate naturally and intuitively are much more understandable to the user.

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