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Read a product’s shape, labels, placement, and response as clues about how it wants to be used. You will spot affordances, signifiers, and feedback without turning them into a technical vocabulary exercise.

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Trace where a person slows down, hesitates, repeats work, asks for help, or gives up. You will distinguish minor inconvenience from friction that changes what people can realistically do.

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Notice the sticky notes, screenshots, side texts, saved templates, and unofficial shortcuts people create to get through a system. You will use workarounds as evidence that a design does not fully fit real behavior.

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Compare how the same design feels different when someone is tired, rushed, carrying bags, using a small screen, speaking another language, or sharing space with others. You will practice reading context before judging whether a design is good or bad.

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Follow a service from the first need through waiting, asking, paying, receiving, and fixing problems. You will see how separate moments combine into one experience, even when different people or systems handle each part.

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Inspect how required fields, wording, order, examples, error messages, and default choices guide what people enter. You will see how forms can include, exclude, speed up, or distort people’s answers.

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Look at entrances, seating, lighting, paths, counters, signs, barriers, and quiet zones as instructions for behavior. You will reason about how spaces invite, block, sort, or pressure people without saying much out loud.

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Identify how rules, eligibility requirements, deadlines, fees, permissions, and penalties shape people’s options. You will treat policies as designed systems that affect access and behavior, not just background rules.

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Look past whether a design “works” for an average user and ask who benefits, who pays the cost, and who is left out. You will connect design choices to outcomes such as access, privacy, safety, dignity, speed, and stress.

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Practice writing observations before proposing fixes: what happened, who was involved, where friction appeared, and what outcome followed. You will build the habit of staying curious long enough to understand the situation before jumping to a solution.

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Review this chapter with practice based on your mistakes.