9 Best Articles in 2021
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7 Rules for Creating Gorgeous UI (Part 1)
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1468 saves · From 2014 · Erik D. Kennedy · A non-artsy primer in digital aesthetics
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Laws of UX
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2 min read · 1198 saves · From 2018 · 01Users often perceive aesthetically pleasing design as design that’s more usable.Learn More
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How Technology Hijacks People’s Minds — from a Magician and Google’s Design Ethicist — Medium
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~16 min read · 1090 saves · From 2016 · When using technology, we often focus optimistically on all the things it does for us. But I want you to show you where it might do the opposite.
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Design Better Forms
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5 min read · 1050 saves · From 2016 · Andrew Coyle · Common mistakes designers make and how to fix them
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UX Mapping Methods Compared: A Cheat Sheet
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7 min read · 986 saves · From 2017 · Understand similarities and differences among empathy maps, customer journey maps, experience maps, and service blueprints.
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Why Product Thinking is the next big thing in UX Design
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7 min read · 948 saves · From 2015 · Nikkel Blaase · Life’s too short to build something nobody wants…
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The Design Sprint — Google Ventures
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4 min read · 926 saves · From 2015 · The sprint is a five-day process for answering critical business questions through design, prototyping, and testing ideas with customers.
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The Most Important Rule in UX Design that Everyone Breaks
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9 min read · 864 saves · From 2017 · Jeff Davidson · In Product Design, and Possibly Life Management
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The State of UX in 2019
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20+ min read · 834 saves · From 2017 · 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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Shit’s broken: why we need Mindful Notifications & how to Design them
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2 min read · 105 saves · Jan 12th · Notifications today impede our focus, get in the way of our plans, cause cognitive overload, and are too often devoid of meaning. Here’s how we can improve.
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5 academic research papers every designer should read
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5 min read · 80 saves · Jan 5th · Canvs Editorial · Influence of website design and brand’s content, usability, aesthetics, pleasurable interaction, service quality, on its users’ experience.
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State of JS 2020
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3 min read · 66 saves · Jan 13th · As crappy as 2020 was, JavaScript as a whole still managed to somehow move forward. As the language itself keeps improving thanks to new features like Optional Chaining and Nullish Coalescing,…
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The State of UX for 2021
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6 min read · 57 saves · Jan 4th · Changes to the way we interact with the world, both digital and real, have impacted the current state of UX and formed a foundation for the UX trends of 2021.
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A comprehensive list of UX design methods & deliverables (2021)
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46 saves · Jan 18th · Fabricio Teixeira · The most common tool, methods, processes, and deliverables that designers use throughout the digital product design process.
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Visual Hierarchy in UX: Definition
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5 min read · 29 saves · Jan 19th · A clear visual hierarchy guides the eye to the most important elements on the page. It can be created through variations in color and contrast, scale, and grouping.
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The rise and fall of Invision
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~15 min read · 28 saves · Jan 7th · Sean Dexter · The sad slide of the once-darling design co.
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Create a button component with Figma Variants + Auto Layout
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9 min read · 16 saves · Jan 11th · Justin Huang · Early this year, I posted an article about create button components using Figma’s Auto Layout. Over the past few months, Figma had…
