How to design a failure heavy user experience

1. What are the 5 key concepts of user experience design?
2. What are common mistakes user experience designers make?
3. What is failure mapping?

What are the 5 key concepts of user experience design?

Summary: The principles of scale, visual hierarchy, balance, contrast, and Gestalt not only create beautiful designs, but also increase usability when applied correctly.

What are common mistakes user experience designers make?

Some of the most frequent UX design mistakes include: Striking the wrong balance between aesthetics and functionality. Ignoring user needs and feedback. Bombarding users with pop-ups.

What is failure mapping?

Failure mapping, in relation to web design, is a system that recognizes patterns of events or conditions that have a direct relationship with subsequent failures. E.g. not including a clear call to action from a 'basket' page to the 'checkout' pages.