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Redesign of Brno iD account page
It’s easy to judge. Making things better for real, that’s the challenge. This lesson and more are my takeaways from working on a redesign of Brno iD.
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(Un)foreseen consequences – UX of Black Mesa research facility
Here is a playful way to jog our UX/design muscles: Let’s examine the design of Black Mesa facility from the original Half-Life in terms of safety and usability. This is a fun article inspired by The Design of Everyday Things.
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Grocery Delivery – User Flow
I’m on a quest for projects to practice my UX skills. UX Tools website offers a decent amount of UX Challenges for practicing with real-world exercises. Each challenge comes with a scenario, task itself, hand-picked tutorials and list of tools you can use. I picked User Flow challenge because…
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Front-end design for 2 services
Our team at Red Hat maintains a couple of internally facing services (called ODCS and CTS). Not everyone is familiar with the fact that these services run in the back-end. Sometimes people would visit the URL in their browser and wouldn’t be able to load any page. Then they would report particular service isn’t working. […]
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Embed Twine UX improvement
Embed Twine is a WordPress plugin I made that makes it easy to add Twine stories on WordPress pages and posts without having to insert the code manually. Recently, I finished The Psychology of UI Design and Website UX Reviews: First Impressions with Paul Boag. When I watched it I was on a look out […]
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Roborock Drink Delivery – Adding a delivery feature into the app as an April Fools’
Remember when R2-D2 worked as a waiter onboard Jabba’s yacht? Let me jog your memory: See? R2-D2 is working real hard to make everyone feel refreshed with a cool drink. Afternoons on Tatooine can get pretty hot. Now a lot of you probably already have a droid (aka robot vacuum) at home and might be […]
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Jobs DONE! (Red Hat Jira) Chrome/Firefox extension
Are there any Warcraft fans? Here is a browser extension for Jira that will boost your productivity! Check it out: https://github.com/rluks/jobsdone
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UX of Banking – Making a Payment with mBank
Few months ago, I stumbled upon Pete‘s Build for Mars. I really like the format they use for UX case studies and I thought I could try to replicate it for a Czech banking app (Don’t worry, I switched the app interface to English).
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Javascript Link Distinguisher (JLD)
I made this user script for Tampermonkey/Greasemonkey back in 2016. Browsers don’t distinguish between simple links to an URL and links that contain javascript. All links use the same style. It can be confusing for a user. This script is an attempt to reduce user confusion when browsing the web.
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Visual Story Points for Jira
Story points dialogue window in Jira is boring. Just look at this: Does it spark joy? No! What’s worse, it doesn’t provide any hint on what values are expected! What are users supposed to input? With input field such as this one, it could be anything – string, number, …
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Games Reseller
The exercise project from Usability/Interaction Design course at FH OOE. Date: 2015Team: Fabian Achammer & Roman Luks The aim of this project was to practice what we learned during course lessons. First, we picked the topic (website of a games reseller), then we researched existing solutions, came up with personas, created different sketches in Balsamiq, […]
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Usability evaluation of archive.org (2015)
During my studies at FH OOE I took a class on Usability/Interaction Design. The first task was to evaluate a website using guidelines (Mack & Nielsen). We were supposed to evaluate a (really) bad one but I wanted to try it on archive.org because I love what they do. Maybe my evaluation could help make […]
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How to Motivate Yourself to Clean Your Bookmarks? Use My Extension!
How many bookmarks do you have? Many? Do you feel a need to constantly bookmark every single page with a though that you’ll “get back to it later”? Perhaps you suffer from a chronic bookmarkitis! Don’t laugh. I’m super cereal about this. The digital age comes with many silly little kinks that are not easy […]
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How to stop yourself from binge watching Youtube?! Use “yt no recommendations”
I was suffering from binge-watching Youtube videos.
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Mouseman (3D character)
This was a project for Art Anatomy course at Masaryk University.
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Metaman
Metaman is a game prototype made during Meta Game Jam 2018.
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Thin Red Lines – a short story
I came up with this short story around 2019. It’s inspired by King, Lovecraft, and Bruce Sterling’s Beyond the Coming Age of Networked Matter. Jake’s voice is barely audible, “Thin. Red. Lines.” Peter isn’t sure whether Jake is speaking to him or to himself, “What’s that?” Jake’s voice is shaking as he speaks, “I… I […]
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Web games to play with friends and family
These browser-based games can be played online without installation. This makes them great for playing with friends, family, or colleagues.
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