The UX Superpower Holding Your Product Back

[@arshadm10]

This is nice! expecting more this kind of UX study videos❤

[@aminansar5294]

Very valuable. Thanks a lot!

[@kishorekumarseenivasan]

it was an insightful video 👏

[@teegees]

This is an interesting discussion. Personally I would not call an animating button or click sound as a micro interaction. Yes it provides feedback but it happens after the user has interacted with it. There is no interaction between the user and the sound or animation. To me micro interactions are like a single button morphing into two buttons once clicked. Or an entire flow happening inside an overlay on top of the main UI (whether modal or not). Another example would be configuring some settings inside a contextual overlay (like a tooltip) that appears when hovering over an icon. In these examples the user is interacting with a “temporary UI” which isn’t part of the main UI.

[@AMDesignAndDev]

If you're talking about personally, then you're free to call things whatever you want. But if you study microinteractions, you will figure out what these actually are in terms of the UX industry. Read more about the book I shared and NNgroup (leader in UX about it). www.nngroup.com/articles/microinteractions/ Microinteractions are usually what happens as a result of the user, or as a system state for the most part. Entire flow happening inside a modal or overlay is not a microinteraction. Tooltips sure are a micro interactions, as they happen as a result of a user action.

[@teegees]

So yeah most of the examples are about the UX best practice of providing useful feedback once some action is taken by the user. I’m not sure I agree with Saffer’s use of the term as it feels more like a misnomer to me. In a micro interaction there needs to be interaction, not just feedback. Just my opinion...

[@AMDesignAndDev]

The feedback is based on interaction, or based on the system providing feedback, read more here: www.nngroup.com/articles/microinteractions/