9 Best Articles in 2021
medium.com
7 Rules for Creating Gorgeous UI (Part 1)
medium.com
20+ min read · 1471 saves · From 2014 · A non-artsy primer in digital aesthetics
lawsofux.com
Laws of UX
lawsofux.com
3 min read · 1223 saves · From 2018 · 01Users often perceive aesthetically pleasing design as design that’s more usable.Learn More
Unsplash
Unsplash | Free High-Resolution Photos
Unsplash
2 min read · 1183 saves · From 2015 · Do-whatever-you-want high-resolution photos. Download 10 new free photos every 10 days.
medium.com
How Technology Hijacks People’s Minds — from a Magician and Google’s Design Ethicist — Medium
medium.com
~16 min read · 1102 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.
colorhunt.co
Color Hunt
colorhunt.co
1080 saves · From 2015 · Curated collection of beautiful colors, updated daily.
UX Collective
Design Better Forms
UX Collective
5 min read · 1062 saves · From 2016 · Common mistakes designers make and how to fix them
Nielsen Norman Group
UX Mapping Methods Compared: A Cheat Sheet
Nielsen Norman Group
8 min read · 997 saves · From 2017 · Understand similarities and differences among empathy maps, customer journey maps, experience maps, and service blueprints.
medium.com
Why Product Thinking is the next big thing in UX Design
medium.com
7 min read · 954 saves · From 2015 · Life’s too short to build something nobody wants…
GV
The Design Sprint — Google Ventures
GV
5 min read · 940 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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Dark patterns, the tricks websites use to make you say yes, explained
Vox
10 min read · 391 saves · Apr 1st · How design can manipulate and coerce you into doing what websites want.
Smashing Magazine
A Complete Guide To Accessible Front-End Components — Smashing Magazine
Smashing Magazine
20+ min read · 196 saves · Mar 22nd · In a new short series of posts, we highlight some of the useful tools and techniques for developers and designers. Recently we’ve covered [CSS Auditing…
Print magazine
30 of the Best Book Covers of the Year (So Far)
Print magazine
3 min read · 167 saves · Mar 31st · We’re elated by the design that has been dancing across bookshelves of late. Here are 30 of our favorite covers of 2021.
Nature
Adding is favoured over subtracting in problem solving
Nature
4 min read · 104 saves · Apr 8th · People tend to solve problems by adding features.
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How to Design Better Icons
Prototypr.IO
5 min read · 81 saves · Mar 30th · Interface iconography tips & tricks.
UX Collective
Accessibility vs Design trends
UX Collective
10 min read · 80 saves · Mar 23rd · Neumorphism? Glassmorphism? Material Design? All design trends can be accessible.
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Pictures of websites
matthewstrom.com
~11 min read · 69 saves · Mar 17th · A taxonomy of the work of a UX designer
Print magazine
Design Matters: Robyn Kanner
Print magazine
36 saves · Mar 29th · Transcript Debbie Millman: When we think back to the Biden/Harris campaign and its visual identity, what did we see? On websites, campaign literature, television backgrounds and buses, we saw deep…
UX Collective
Measuring design debt
UX Collective
20+ min read · 35 saves · Apr 6th · The second part of the ‘Design debt 101’ series
learnui.design
Gradient Generator Tool
learnui.design
2 min read · 21 saves · Feb 24th · Create beautiful, smooth gradients across a wide range of hues.
