Gabriel Weinberg
Mental Models I Find Repeatedly Useful
Summary · · Update: Since this post came out, I co-authored a book about it called Super Thinking. Get notified about book updates here (currently… · Shared by 5674, including Konrad Weber, Tim Herbig, Data Science Renee, Thomas Schwenke, Klaus Eck, wahalulu@fosstodon.org Marck Vaisman, Matthias Sala, Antonio Vieira Santos, Pat Kua, Sid Sijbrandij, John Jantsch, Christiane Link, Leo Polovets, Craig Mod, Melanie Deziel (she/her), designshard, Dr. Marigo Raftopoulos, Stefan T, Chris Messina
medium.com
Why Product Thinking is the next big thing in UX Design
7 min · · Life’s too short to build something nobody wants… · Shared by 1486, including Chris Messina, Tibor Martini 🇺🇦 @tibor@mastodon.social, 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
Nielsen Norman Group
UX Mapping Methods Compared: A Cheat Sheet
8 min · · Understand similarities and differences among empathy maps, customer journey maps, experience maps, and service blueprints. · Shared by 1363, including Gabriele, Thomas Power, Stephanie A Kowalski, James Young, Mark Kaigwa, Fabrice Liut 🍌🥑😌, Bjoern Negelmann, Tillmann Allmer, Jonathan Kogan, Fabricio Teixeira, designshard, Greg Meyer, Grégoire Japiot 🌻, Nicolas Berg, AJ Ghergich, Klaus Eck, Nando 💪🇦🇺🇦🇷, von Moerenburgh, Katja Evertz, Mara Averick
lawsofux.com
Laws of UX
3 min · · 01Users often perceive aesthetically pleasing design as design that’s more usable.Learn More · Shared by 1285, including Balaji, Tamara Sredojevic, Artnome, Susan Dybbs, Adham Dannaway, Josep M. Ganyet, Stef Walter, Fabricio Teixeira, designshard, Nilan 🇱🇰 නිලාන්, Yazeed Al Oyoun, Oliver Pitsch, Philip Junker, Scott Berkun, Chris Coyier, Data Science Renee, 🎆 🌸 Samuel Hulick 🌸 🌄, Casey Smith, Curadoria | Update or Die!, Nick Finck
designsmarts.co
The problem with dropdown fields (and what you should use instead)
7 min · · The dropdown is often used in a way that makes user input more difficult. Learn about the advantages and disadvantages of using them. · Shared by 178, including Chris Heilmann codepo8@toot.cafe, Jacob du Toit, Benoist Lawniczak, Harsha Mv, Jochen Burkhard, Matt, Gabriele, Oliver Raduner, David Teodorescu, Esther Schindler, Josep M. Ganyet, tcherno, CSS Weekly, Steven Sinofsky
UX Collective
Great products do less things, but better
3 min · · When feature bloat can hurt more than help your business goals. · Shared by 107, including Adobe XD, Teresa Torres, philipptemmel, Massimiliano Aroffo, Rand Fishkin, Nick Floro, rudolph regter, Adham Dannaway, George Waititu, Steven Sinofsky, Katja Evertz
UX Collective
The league of evil designers
7 min · · “So, you want to join the league of evil designers? Let’s go through your application.” · Shared by 101, including Marius Bleuer, Gabriele, Fabricio Teixeira, Chris Heilmann codepo8@toot.cafe, Massimiliano Aroffo
InVision
The New Design Frontier by InVision
5 min · · InVision surveyed thousands of companies to explore the relationship between design practices and business performance. What we discovered will transform the way you work. · Shared by 79, including Michael Zumstein, James Young, Daniel Bentes, Niklaus Gerber, Nick Floro, Mark Kaigwa, David Teodorescu, David Hellmann, Oscar MacDonald, UX Design Weekly, Cameron Yick ~ @hydrosquall@vis.social on mastodon, Jonas Hartmann
Creative Bloq
Can green UX save the world?
5 min · · Green UX may just be the cure for the net's contribution to climate change. · Shared by 62, including Marius Bleuer
UX Collective
A step-by-step guide to agnostic UX personas — free downloadable
7 min · · Don’t boot off personas just yet create age, gender, and location agnostic personas instead · Shared by 59, including Boris Périsset, Niklaus Gerber, Jacob du Toit
Nieman Lab
Habit formation: How The Wall Street Journal turned user-level data into a strategy to keep subscribers coming back » Nieman…
4 min · · The Journal went on a quest to identify the user actions — an app download, an article share, repeat reading of a particular reporter’s stories — that can turn a new subscriber into a loyal one. Then… · Shared by 56, including Martijn, Niklaus Gerber, Vincenzo Tremonte, Elena Neira, Nieman Reports, Anita Zielina, Robert Rose, Pieter van Diggele
UX Collective
Why are you not designing your day-to-day experience?
5 min · · When designing everything around you becomes second nature. · Shared by 56, including Simone Corsi 💻🚀, Fabricio Teixeira, Niklaus Gerber, Merkstatt@troet.cafe 📯, UX Design Weekly, Mobile Patterns
medium.com
Design for a Vision
7 min · · To create unique and compelling products, you have to make space and time to hone your design vision. · Shared by 55, including Fabricio Teixeira, Michelle Boisson, designshard, Christian P. Stobbe
screensizemap.com
Screen Size Map for Responsive Webdesign
1 min · · An interactive map that illustrates the responsive and adaptive device landscape. · Shared by 45, including Chris Heilmann codepo8@toot.cafe, Oscar MacDonald, Charles Arthur, sascha aßbach, Benoist Lawniczak, Oliver Raduner
UX Collective
UX: do less, but with feeling
13+ min · · We were all taught (or have learnt) that there are two parts to experience: ‘What do users need to do?’ (Pragmatism) and ‘How do users… · Shared by 42, including tcherno, Niklaus Gerber, Oleg Baskov
UX Collective
Making more informed design judgements
4 min · · If we want to be better designers we must learn to see from perspectives that are not our own. · Shared by 34, including Fabricio Teixeira, Gabriele, Michelle Boisson