The Best of UX Collective
20+ most popular UX Collective articles, as voted by our community.
Curated stories on user experience, usability, and product design. By @fabriciot and @caioab.
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The many deaths of UX design
How UX was proclaimed dead (again), what do AI and Elon Musk have to do with it, and what poses a real treat to the discipline of design.
Product design is going down a weird path, but we can still save it
A casual analysis of our current design industry compared to the old days and principles, and why it's important to step back and re-think…
UX lessons from a 17th-century warship disaster
The tragedy of the Vasa: Why the crown jewel of the Swedish navy sank on its maiden voyage and what UX professionals can learn from this
UX lessons from a poet who invented social media in the 18th century
How a German poet turned his apartment into Facebook in 1747, and the most crucial UX lessons we need to learn from this
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2023 visual design trends guide
The rise of motion design, parallax, immersion, contrasting UI styles, imitations and more
«me. As always the 2023 edition is prepared in a similar manner — with thoughtful consideration that took a few weeks of thorough»
I’m a designer at LinkedIn. Here are 4 tips to attract more recruiters
Understand how recruiters source candidates on LinkedIn and how to optimize your profile to improve your chances of being found
How designers can start using AI at work today
Existing and future use-cases for AI in web and product design
Navigating the AI revolution: how designers can stay competitive
Artificial intelligence is changing the way we design and the skills required to succeed in the design industry.
«Customer service will also benefit from AI. Current chatbots may not meet customer expectations, but they might replace more human managers in the future.»
Gamification gone wrong: stop the streaks
UX friends, please streak with caution! A look at how we want streaks to work versus how they actually work.
«In 2018, a study showed that people tended to complete time-sensitive tasks first rather than tasks that were not as time-sensitive but were more important.»
UX Collective on Accessibility
Designing for accessibility is not that hard
Seven easy-to-implement guidelines to design a more accessible web ❤️
Getting WCAG color contrast right
Actionable tips on how to nail WCAG 2.1 color compliance.
UX Collective on CX
How Airbnb Proved That Storytelling is the Most Important Skill in Design
The company’s biggest breakthrough innovations start with text.
How Netflix does A/B Testing — uxdesign.cc
Have you ever wondered why Netflix has such a great streaming experience?
UX Collective on Design
Handy design tools for everyone
Hand-picked designer tools and tips to make your experience more enriching.
Design is not a formula, it’s an odyssey: replacing the Double Diamond
Double-Diamond and Design Thinking are inaccurate. There’s a better way to think about process.
UX Collective on Design Thinking
Why Design Thinking is failing and what we should be doing differently
I have and always will be an avid supporter of the design thinking methodology. I have held talks and workshops about Design Thinking &…
Japan in the eyes of a user experience designer
Join me on my journey of exploring the land of the Rising Sun with my obsession to understand why things work the way they do.
UX Collective on Gamification
Gamification: A guide for designers to a misunderstood concept
How to build a gamification system the right way and how Fitbit, Waze, and Duolingo use it to enhance their products.
The Surprising Relationship Between Gamification And Modern Persuasion
I know gamification works and want to show why using science, Facebook and concrete examples.
UX Collective on Mindful Ux
Designing for suicidal users: preventing suicide the modern way
Every month, over half a million people in the US make suicide-related searches on Google. The automated response that is supposed to stop…
WTF is Your Metric Doing to Your Customers?
How To Avoid The Unintended Consequences Of The “One Metric That Matters”
UX Collective on Product Design
Research vs Vision: the origin story of Sony Walkman, Mini Cooper, and the iPhone
It’s always interesting to watch how companies approach the building of their new products. During the market research phase, companies…
Psychological principles every product designer should know
Psychology is a crucial element in designing the right kind of systems, interfaces and experiences for your users/customers.
«Anchoring bias has a huge impact on negotiations and the pricing of the products and influences how much the customer is willing to pay.»
UX Collective on Prototyping
3 rapid prototyping exercises to improve your UX skills
This one quote from Hustle, really stuck to me:
4 myths busted about high-fidelity prototyping
Busting some key misconceptions about the world of hi-fi prototyping from a perspective of a designer.
UX Collective on UX
The heuristics of Neurodesign
A guide to design for the brain with intention and results.
«Neurodesign is an emerging field of design practice that accounts for how our brains are wired to create designs that promote simplicity, emote joy, and drive action»
The State of UX in 2017
Here’s our take on looking at the past, understanding the present, and anticipating some of the UX Trends in 2017.
UX Collective on Visual Design
The State of UX in 2019
From the tools we'll use, to our process, to the behaviors that will change the way we design — here's a list of what to expect for User Experience (UX) Design in the next year.
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Excel is your most overlooked design tool
A designer’s perspective on the world’s #1 spreadsheet tool — how to build infographics, dashboards, presentations & more
Introducing yourself without saying your title
“I’m a Senior Director of Experiential Design and Brand Experience for North America and EMEA.”
«It reminds me of why. Stating my role out loud (“designer”) as opposed to my title is a good reminder of what brought me to this profession in the first place»
The business power of design: understanding Airbnb’s redesign
In software, design can be one of the most important levers of growth.
The colors of game design
What if game design could be summed up into four “primary colors” and their mixtures? This simple tool might help you organize your ideas.
Midjourney and DALL-E: a new kind of creativity
I’ve been playing with AI-generated art via Midjourney and DALL-E, which take text prompts and turn them into images. That may not sound…
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