Chapter 12: REDUCING WORK AND ELIMINATING EXCISE

    In this chapter I learned that digital products too often contain interactions that are top-heavy, which leads to requiring unnecessary work for users. There are four types of work when interacting with digital products and that includes, Cognitive work or Comprehending product behaviors, as well as text and organizational structures ,Memory work which is ,Recalling product behaviors, commands, passwords, names and locations of data objects and controls, and other relationships between objects The Visual work that leads the users eyes that should start on the screen, and lastly physical with things like mouse movements or keystrokes.

    There are different types of excises which in user interfaces is a primary cause of user dissatisfaction with software-enabled products, there for designers need to really pay attention to them. Another is navigation excuse which is one the most common problems in UX. Another is Skeuomorphic excise which is the transformation from the age of “industrial, mechanical artifacts to an age of digital, information objects. “There is also the Modal excise where it is considered the most disruptive forms of excise and breaks the flow. The stylistic excise where onscreen information is decoded from performing visual work.

    I learned to get rid of excise should be started with navigational excise since it’s the most prevalent type you can find in most digital products. There are ways are improving or elimination the navigation and that includes: Reduce the number of places to go. provide signposts. Provide overviews. Properly map controls to functions.   Avoid hierarchies. And don’t replicate mechanical models. There are overviews that help orient users and focuses on the content. Excises are something that needs to go and once gone will lead to a good interface for users.