Ya I work closely with our director of design (we are friends and I’m generally interested). I’m backend but have always had an interest in UX despite being awful at UI.

I’m wondering how to understand the end user better. It’s a relatively niche space and I don’t think it’s feasible to poll them or get extended feedback. Are there any good practices for narrowing down a user mindset in a more generic way?

I am a dev but want to learn about UX to be a better teammate with our designer. I often butt heads with “function over form” but i know there must be some balance between them that is better serving to pursue.

The other day I did some reading and learned the original quote was “function before form”. Which I thought was a rephrasing but was expounded to mean that first understand the user and what you want to provide them / what they are looking for then build an engaging form around it.

In other words form without function constrains usage. And function without form doesn’t inspire usage. They must both be present. One doesn’t outweigh the other but they serve different purposes, to understand the right form is to define the function.

Did I understand that correctly?

What do you and /u/Blukoi suggest to learn? Any books or courses? General advice or stand out points over your years working? Specifically on the practical and research side.

What??

Is this a meme or serious? How the fuck is that possible?

Haha amazing. Like asking the brain to explain itself.

I’ll look into making an account. Is this like a wiki chat bot you can ask anything to?

Right. I misunderstood symbolic to mean a third form of signal passing, in addition to analog and digital.

Ah I see. I had always heard analog vs digital. Thought there was some semantic meaning I was missing. Thanks for the answers.

Thank you. This explains static vs dynamic. But what does symbolic vs analog mean in this context?