5 Secrets Designers Use To Make The Best Apps

Ever wonder why some apps or websites just feel easier to use than others?

Didem Sahin
4 min readSep 11, 2024
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It all comes down to these 5 secrets of UX.

UX is short for user experience, meaning that the experience user has while interacting with a product, service or a system.

The goal of designing user experience is to make sure the interaction is easy, efficient, satisfactory and enjoyable even.

A product with a well designed UX is user friendly, accessible for everyone, functional, easy to navigate & conveys information clearly.

Think of a smartphone for example. What would you look for to say that it is well designed?

If you ask me, it should be easy-to-hold, buttons should be placed where I can easily reach and it should also have a user-friendly interface with high responsiveness to touch.

What about a streaming service? In this case, we would expect to search for shows and access our watchlist easily, and get relevant personalized recommendations. We would also expect minimal number of clicks and no unnecessary screens.

Whether the product is physical or digital, it interacts with us, humans. Humans are influenced by cognitive biases

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Didem Sahin

I’m an Industrial Engineer. Here, I write mainly about business & tech . Let’s support each other 😇