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UX Planet
5 Types of UI Notifications
UX Planet
~16 min read · Sep 13th · And essential rules on when and how to use each type · Shared by 14
UX Planet
The Honeycomb: Seven Methods to Exceed User Experience Expectations
UX Planet
7 min read · Sep 9th · Integrate the UX honeycomb across your product life cycle to clarify and optimize, whether for go-to-market or refinements. · Shared by 6
UX Collective
UX Chunking: a new digestible product design process
UX Collective
~18 min read · Sep 16th · Trying to follow an iterative UX design process and don’t get lost in the loop is becoming more difficult every time. Let’s fix that. · Shared by 75
UX Collective
Towards a factory model of designing user interfaces
UX Collective
~14 min read · Sep 8th · Explorations of the component properties in Figma to rethink UI Design Systems for Speed, Configurability and Reusability. · Shared by 10, including Adham Dannaway
epicpeople.org
User Research & Engineering: Better Together During Discovery
epicpeople.org
9 min read · Sep 6th · by & , Spotify When we think about the “Discovery” phase in the product development process, we often picture product owners, design, and researchers working to understand a problem area, the needs of… · Shared by 5
UX Collective
Is the iPhone 14’s new Dynamic Island plain stupid or the next revolutionary UX pattern?
UX Collective
~14 min read · Sep 8th · Through sharing projects and experiences from my own design career as a product design lead, I will help you determine if you think Dynamic · Shared by 126
Nielsen Norman Group
Antipersonas: What, How, Who, and Why?
Nielsen Norman Group
6 min read · Sep 12th · Antipersonas help anticipate how products can be misused in ways that can harm users and the business. · Shared by 88, including Paul J. Adam, Thomas Pleil
The Verge
The open elevator door button puts kindness at our fingertips
The Verge
4 min read · Aug 31st · The "wait, someone’s coming" button. · Shared by 80
scale.com
Text Is the Universal Interface
scale.com
10 min read · Sep 10th · Roon guest-authors a post on large language models and the future of computing. · Shared by 63, including Gio Tiongson, Tiago Forte
Smashing Magazine 🇺🇦 🏳️🌈
UX Checklists For Interface Designers — Smashing Magazine
Smashing Magazine 🇺🇦 🏳️🌈
5 min read · Sep 8th · UX checklists with best design practices, accessibility guidelines, design system checklist, tables UX checklist, UX research methods, form design UX and flowcharts. · Shared by 29
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Designing Better Inline Validation UX — Smashing Magazine
Smashing Magazine 🇺🇦 🏳️🌈
~17 min read · Sep 22nd · Inline validation in web forms is useful when it works, but frustrating when it fails. Too often it leads to an endless stream of disruptive error messages or dead-ends without any chance of getting… · Shared by 133, including Neil Lee
UX Collective
What a 52-year-old watch can teach us about UX and Digital Product Design
UX Collective
~19 min read · Sep 21st · A look at cutting-edge watch design of the 1970s and the lessons we can learn and apply to UX and digital product design today. · Shared by 111, including Ines Bieler
Nielsen Norman Group
Five Ways to Recruit Participants for User Research (Video)
Nielsen Norman Group
Aug 25th · Getting representative members of the target audience as your test participants is essential for user research validity. You can outsource recruiting to an agency, or do it yourself. Each method has… · Shared by 59
UX Magazine
How Snapchat and Netflix Break UX Design Principles
UX Magazine
Aug 26th · Breaking UX principles on purpose? No way! However, Snapchat and Netflix didn't hesitate in doing so. And after all, who says we can't occasionally break UX guidelines if it’s for the good cause? · Shared by 92
Nielsen Norman Group
Accidental Dismissal of Overlays: A Common Mobile Usability Problem
Nielsen Norman Group
10 min read · Sep 19th · Overlays often need to be dismissed in a manner that goes against users’ expectations. · Shared by 136, including Paul J. Adam
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builtformars.com
UX analysis of HBO Max: the worst-rated streaming service 🤯
builtformars.com
8 min read · Sep 6th · HBO Max suffers from poor UX judgement, a lack of finesse and a focus on style over function. Let's learn from their mistakes, only on Built for Mars. · Shared by 274
Growth.Design
Typeform: How to offboard users the right way
Growth.Design
Aug 31st · This offboarding case study shows how Typeform's cancellation experience could be improved. You'll also learn a key retention strategy that can reduce churn. · Shared by 262, including Stef Walter
Nielsen Norman Group
Infinite Scrolling: When to Use It, When to Avoid It
Nielsen Norman Group
8 min read · Sep 5th · Infinite scrolling minimizes interaction costs and increases user engagement, but it isn’t a good fit for every website. For some, pagination or a Load More button will be a better solution. · Shared by 214, including David Hellmann, Stef Walter
Growth.Design
Zeigarnik Effect: Why it's hard to leave things incomplete
Growth.Design
Sep 13th · Learn what the Zeigarnik Effect is and how to apply it to improve your product without relying on unethical dark patterns. · Shared by 192
engineering.fb.com
How Instagram suggests new content
engineering.fb.com
7 min read · Sep 6th · Here's how Suggested Posts was designed to be a marriage between familiarity and exploration for people using Instagram. · Shared by 189, including Stephanie A Kowalski
UX Collective
Five areas Figma need to improve on to stay a step ahead
UX Collective
20+ min read · Sep 3rd · Figma are dominating the product design tools space, but here are five areas I think they need to work on to maintain their market lead. · Shared by 178, including Neil Hart 💙
Smashing Magazine 🇺🇦 🏳️🌈
What Makes A Great Toggle Button? (Case Study, Part 2) — Smashing Magazine
Smashing Magazine 🇺🇦 🏳️🌈
~16 min read · Aug 29th · The problem of how to design an effective toggle button that shows the selected option clearly is a long-term open question among UI/UX designers. In this second part, Eduard Kuric explains a complex… · Shared by 158
UX Collective
We love to hate Clippy — but what if Clippy was right?
UX Collective
9 min read · Sep 15th · How Clippy shaped the design world. · Shared by 153, including Danny Preussler, 🇺🇦 Слава Україні, Esther Schindler
Smashing Magazine 🇺🇦 🏳️🌈
Making Sense Of WAI-ARIA: A Comprehensive Guide — Smashing Magazine
Smashing Magazine 🇺🇦 🏳️🌈
~11 min read · Sep 13th · In this article, Kate Kalcevich explains when to use ARIA and how to use it properly so that you can use ARIA in a way that’s helpful to the many disabled people who use [assistive… · Shared by 153, including Elijah Manor, AJ Ghergich
ashleemboyer.com
Should I Use a Button or a Link?
ashleemboyer.com
9 min read · Sep 6th · Despite being answered time and time again, the button vs. link question prevails. · Shared by 150, including Hannah Milan, Web Axe, Stef Walter, David Hellmann
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medium.com
7 Rules for Creating Gorgeous UI (Part 1)
medium.com
20+ min read · From 2014 · A non-artsy primer in digital aesthetics · Shared by 1480, including Alligator.io 🐊, Chris Messina, Brad Brooks, Kenneth Kalmer, Casey Smith, Fabricio Teixeira, Rodrigo Prior, Herbert Bay, Christopher Allen, Ryan Boren, Brent Summers, Kris Fannin, Thomas Power, Gabriel Weinberg, Glenn Oberholzer, Richard Hale, Daniel Williams, Nando 💪🇦🇺🇦🇷, Lluís Codina, Courtney Bolton ★
lawsofux.com
Laws of UX
lawsofux.com
3 min read · From 2018 · 01Users often perceive aesthetically pleasing design as design that’s more usable.Learn More · Shared by 1274, including Balaji Srinivasan, Tamara Sredojevic, Scott Berkun, Susan Dybbs, Adham Dannaway, Curadoria | Update or Die!, Stef Walter, Fabricio Teixeira, designshard, Nilan 🇱🇰 නිලාන්, Yazeed Al Oyoun, Oliver Pitsch, Philip Junker, Artnome, Chris Coyier, Data Science Renee, 🎆 🌸 Samuel Hulick 🌸 🌄, Casey Smith, Josep M. Ganyet, Nick Finck
medium.com
How Technology Hijacks People’s Minds — from a Magician and Google’s Design Ethicist — Medium
medium.com
~16 min read · 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. · Shared by 1166, including fernand0, Parin Vachhani, Leo Polovets, Ryan Boren, Ernst-Jan Pfauth, Brent Summers, Tristan Harris, Kenneth Kalmer, Curadoria | Update or Die!, Matthias Sala, Nir Eyal, Thomas Power, Chris Messina, David Cant ~👷♂️, Courtney Bolton ★, Howard Getson, Matt Navarra, Rand Fishkin, 🟣 Antonio Vieira Santos #FutureOfWork #InnoTrans2, hiten.eth
UX Collective
Design Better Forms
UX Collective
5 min read · From 2016 · Common mistakes designers make and how to fix them · Shared by 1065, including Christoph Janz 🇺🇦🎗🕊, Nils Hitze, Chris Messina, Fabricio Teixeira, Tibor Martini 🇺🇦, Mark Kaigwa, Courtney Bolton ★, Brent Summers, Matthias Sala, Dominik Grolimund, Luca Hammer, Casey Smith, Dennis Lembrée, Aleyda Solis 🇺🇦, Susan Weinschenk PhD, Alligator.io 🐊, Web Axe, Zain Fathoni, Parin Vachhani, Easy Chirp
Nielsen Norman Group
UX Mapping Methods Compared: A Cheat Sheet
Nielsen Norman Group
8 min read · From 2017 · Understand similarities and differences among empathy maps, customer journey maps, experience maps, and service blueprints. · Shared by 1028, including Gabriele, Thomas Power, James Young, René Clausen Nielsen, Mark Kaigwa, Fabrice Liut 🍌🥑😌, Bjoern Negelmann, Stephanie A Kowalski, Nando 💪🇦🇺🇦🇷, Fabricio Teixeira, designshard, Katja Evertz, Nicolas Berg, Greg Meyer, AJ Ghergich, Klaus Eck, von Moerenburgh, Grégoire Japiot 🌻, Tillmann Allmer, Mara Averick
medium.com
Why Product Thinking is the next big thing in UX Design
medium.com
7 min read · From 2015 · Life’s too short to build something nobody wants… · Shared by 971, including Chris Messina, Tibor Martini 🇺🇦, Nando 💪🇦🇺🇦🇷, Oliver Pitsch, ThomNagy, Klaus Eck, Martin Recke, designshard, Moritz Meenen, Dominik Grolimund, Herbert Bay, Aleyda Solis 🇺🇦, Greg Meyer, Christoph Magnussen, Lailo, Thomas Power, Casey Smith, Marc Steffen, Scott Williams, Tris Hussey
GV
The Design Sprint — Google Ventures
GV
5 min read · From 2015 · The sprint is a five-day process for answering critical business questions through design, prototyping, and testing ideas with customers. · Shared by 963, including Mark Kaigwa, Tibor Martini 🇺🇦, Moritz Meenen, Thomas Power, Courtney Bolton ★, Greg Meyer, Tom Bruehwiler, David Luescher, Chris Messina, Grégoire Japiot 🌻, Zain Fathoni, Damian Madray, Aleyda Solis 🇺🇦, ThomNagy, Katja Evertz, Alex Barrera, Dominik Grolimund, Kunal Bhatia (✈️ NYC till 9/23), John Zeratsky, Marko Saric
UX Collective
The State of UX in 2019
UX Collective
20+ min read · 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. · Shared by 951, including femke, Fabricio Teixeira, Adham Dannaway, David Teodorescu, Moritz Meenen, dcancel.eth, designshard, Val Head, Daniel Boos, Sachin Rekhi, Stu Collett, Stef Walter, Tatiana Mac, hiten.eth, Chris Peterson, Gisele Navarro, Mike Davidson, Jacob Cass, Chris Messina, Herbert Bay
Prototypr 👁️✨
The Most Important Rule in UX Design that Everyone Breaks
Prototypr 👁️✨
9 min read · From 2017 · In Product Design, and Possibly Life Management · Shared by 893, including Fabrice Liut 🍌🥑😌, Matthias Lampe, David Hellmann, Nick Floro, ThomNagy, designshard, Adrian Zumbrunnen, Dominik Grolimund, Josep M. Ganyet, Gabriele, Chris Love - PWAs 📳📱& SEO 🔎, tjalve, Zain Fathoni, Lluís Codina, Tim Herbig, Thomas Pleil, Erick Mazer Yamashita, Dez S. Papp, Amel Mehenaoui, Joe Germuska
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