Library Home: Universal Design for Learning (UDL): UX: User Experience

UX Best practices include:

Easy-to-read text

Consistent and predictable elements

Descriptive titles, headings, and labels
(html added description for screen readers that is invisible to public view)

Multiple navigation mechanisms
(tabs, arrows, mouse)

Skip links
(for screen readers)

Visual orientation clues
(links change color, have emphasized underline, not just color)

Two kinds of motivation in scholastic achievement:

long-term goals
ongoing experience

GAMER FLOW

Image Source: 7 steps to achieving flow in UX design

UX Links

FLOW & GROW

Image Source: How to ‘Flow’: Here’s the most magical chart you’ll come across today
1: Your starting point.
You move to “2”. You improve your skills to the point where you get bored - If you’re bored (“2”), you will need to find a way to increase the challenge.
OR
You move to “3”. You challenge yourself at a level that stresses you out - If you’re anxious (“3”), you will need to work on improving your skills to get back in the Flow.

Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

Csikszentmihalyi: “Flow activities lead to growth and discovery. One cannot enjoy doing the same thing at the same level for long. We grow either bored or frustrated; and then the desire to enjoy ourselves again pushes us to stretch our skills, or to discover new opportunities for using them.”

Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi: All About Flow & Positive Psychology (+PDF)
Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi: Flow, the secret to happiness | TED Talk
Csikszentmihalyi and Happiness - The Pursuit of Happiness
Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi - FLOW - YouTube
Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi: Motivating People to Learn (2002)
Optimal Experience and Personal Growth: Flow and the Consolidation of Place Identity (2016)
"First, results from the preliminary analyses indicate that the effects of either gender or age have no impact on the individual’s subjective experience of flow. "
Positive psychology. An introduction.
"...positive features that make life worth living. [:] Hope, wisdom, creativity, future mindedness, courage, spirituality, responsibility, and perseverance..."