{"id":1833,"date":"2016-02-09T02:07:49","date_gmt":"2016-02-09T02:07:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/softwaredaily.wpengine.com\/?p=1833"},"modified":"2021-11-04T01:51:55","modified_gmt":"2021-11-04T08:51:55","slug":"designing-for-drunk-users-with-austin-knight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/softwareengineeringdaily.com\/2016\/02\/09\/designing-for-drunk-users-with-austin-knight\/","title":{"rendered":"Designing for Drunk Users with Austin Knight"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-attachment-id=\"1835\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/softwareengineeringdaily.com\/2016\/02\/09\/designing-for-drunk-users-with-austin-knight\/austin-knight\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/softwareengineeringdaily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/austin-knight.jpg?fit=175%2C175&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"175,175\" data-comments-opened=\"0\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"austin-knight\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/softwareengineeringdaily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/austin-knight.jpg?fit=175%2C175&amp;ssl=1\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/softwareengineeringdaily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/austin-knight.jpg?fit=175%2C175&amp;ssl=1\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-1835\" style=\"border-radius: 50%; border: 1px solid #000000;\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/softwaredaily.wpengine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/austin-knight.jpg?resize=175%2C175\" alt=\"austin-knight\" width=\"175\" height=\"175\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/softwareengineeringdaily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/austin-knight.jpg?w=175&amp;ssl=1 175w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/softwareengineeringdaily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/austin-knight.jpg?resize=150%2C150&amp;ssl=1 150w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/softwareengineeringdaily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/austin-knight.jpg?resize=80%2C80&amp;ssl=1 80w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 175px) 100vw, 175px\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/p>\n<h3>\u201cYour product or your website should be so simple and so well designed that even a drunk person could use it.\u201d<\/h3>\n<p>In today\u2019s episode of SEDaily, Jeff and Austin discuss why designing for a drunk user is a competitive advantage. Austin also explains why engineers need to think about UX and how they can incorporate UX considerations into development workflows.<\/p>\n<p>Austin Knight is a designer and UX engineer at Hubspot.<\/p>\n<p>Austin will be speaking at the upcoming <a href=\"http:\/\/www.oreilly.com\/pub\/cpc\/5332\">Fluent Conference<\/a>, and Software Engineering Daily is giving away a ticket to Fluent, which will be held March 8-10 in San Francisco. To be entered in a random drawing for this free ticket, tweet about your favorite episode of Software Engineering Daily between now and February 22nd. Make sure to tag us <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/software_daily\">@software_daily<\/a> and Fluent <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/FluentConf\">@fluentconf<\/a> so we see your tweet.<\/p>\n<h3>Questions<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Why is UX design so important in 2016?<\/li>\n<li>How does UX testing drive modern UX design?<\/li>\n<li>Why should we consider the average internet user to be drunk when we design web products?<\/li>\n<li>What insights did you get from watching a drunk guy navigate your website?<\/li>\n<li>Why is there a conflict between what a user does and what a user says?<\/li>\n<li>How can you institutionalize harsh feedback into your tests?<\/li>\n<li>Is there any benefit in treating design like art, and intuiting how a product should be defined?<\/li>\n<li>Why should software engineers care about design?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Links<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/austinknight.com\/\">Austin\u2019s personal page<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/conferences.oreilly.com\/fluent\/javascript-html-us\/public\/schedule\/detail\/46448\">Austin&#8217;s talk at Fluent<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hubspot.com\/\">Hubspot<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/theuserisdrunk.com\/\">The User is Drunk<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.uxandgrowth.com\/\">UX &amp; Growth Podcast<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>\u201cYour product or your website should be so simple and so well designed that even a drunk person could use it.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a class=\"continue-reading\" href=\"http:\/\/softwaredaily.wpengine.com\/2016\/02\/09\/designing-for-drunk-users-with-austin-knight\/\">Continue reading\u2026<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1841,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[1363,1085,14],"tags":[321,226,385],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.4 - 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