What Are the Characteristics of Good UX?

User Experience Characteristics can be used to evaluate a products design! Each of them is necessary to provide a fully functioning design that will work in the Real World!

These fundamental characteristics are:

• Enjoyable
• Usable
• Useful
• Equitable

Why Each UX Characteristic is Important

So why do each of these traits so important? Well here we list each attribute and their importance contributing to beautiful User Experience!

1. Enjoyable

If a product is enjoyable, the user is thrilled with the pleasure of experiencing it. This allows for a positive/emotional connection to your design which will make your users closer to it!

Feelings will make your users stay longer on your page contributing to conversion!

2. Usable

Usable means to have a clear goal on your design. Accomplishing specific goals like adding stuff to cart or buying a product is what you are trying to make the user do!

Usable also means to make the goal easier to accomplish through:

• Clear Layout
• Functioning Design
• Clear Tasks
• Etc.

An easy way to do this is to assume the role of a user and ask yourself these questions!

3. Useful

Having a useful design means it gets the job done! This could be achieving one of the design goals like buying a product or completing a task like adding to cart.

Just for definition sake, Usability is the design working well and Useful is accomplishing the task!

4. Equitable

An Equitable design is extremely important when you develop any product. Equitable means to have an inclusive design for everything regardless of gender, age, disabilities, etc.

Some examples of an equitable design is a design with:

• Accessibility -> Screen Reader Accessibility, High Contrast
• Lots of Options for gender on a signup page (Male, Female, Non-Binary, Non-Conforming, Other)
• Language Choices
• Even Different Colored Emoji's!

So Now understand that it is really important for everyone to feel inclusive in your design!

Conclusion

So now you will understand the 5 Characteristics of Great User Experience Design and I hope you will include them in your future products!

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