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A regular selection of the best UX posts from English-language resources.

Not only fresh articles with author's comments, but also a library of useful materials!

Russian materials are collected here @uxhorn

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Understanding contrast ratio and accessibility

A guide to sharing insights in ways that stick

Ethics in designing habit-forming products. Two methods to evaluate our motives when purposefully designing habit-forming products

How to build collaborative human-robot interfaces. The challenge of designing affordances on ever-evolving robots


Fresh articles by Nielsen Norman Group:

Design Thinking: Study Guide. Collection of links to NNG articles and videos to learn about design thinking

Problem Statements in UX Discovery

🎥 How to fit big tables on small screens

🎥 Identify and document your UX methods


Analysis: The Peloton experience. An in-depth analysis on six human factor principles and laws of UX and how they helped shape the existing Peloton interface into what it is today

Opinion: The real reason you’re not more productive at work? It’s not boredom—it’s bad UX

Interesting: Arun Venkatesan describes the career history of industrial designer Richard Sapper, who also influenced computers (the red button on the IBM / Lenovo ThinkPad is his idea). He is from the same German constellation as Dieter Rams, but used different approaches. Thanks 2 pdigest

💵 Opinion: Why Does stress have a beneficial effect?

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Fast and cheap ways to find UX Research participants

Three fundamental tips to enhance your team’s user research insights

🎥 Heuristic Evaluation: The UX First Aid Kit for Your Product

🎥 Megan Blocker - A Selectively Scrappy Approach to ResearchOps

Survey Practice discusses visualizing respondents' responses to open-ended questions. The authors show graphs. Thanks 2 Sowhater

Fabiola Einhorn of athenahealth provides best practices for remote healthcare interfaces. They are based on her many years of practice and numerous UX studies. Thanks 2 pdigest 4 link

Using objectives and key results to inform UX design

Designing for emotional delight

Design edge cases and where to find them

Beginners: How to conduct consumer research surveys? Roadmap, Tips, and Best Practices

Interesting: 10,000 women die in car crashes each year because of bad design

💵 Design polls on social media are not working

💵 User Research crash course for Product Managers

💵 Opinion: Fast AI isn’t always good UX. When “don’t make me think” doesn’t apply

💵 How to make digital & physical interaction feel connected

💵 Product Archaeology in UX: What it is, why it matters & how to do it

💵 Choose Correct Menu Icon for your Navigation. Explaining all different types of menu icons & their usage

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Emotions in video game UX. Designing experiences to leverage subjectivity in perception

Optimizing research’s impact on the product roadmap and strategy. Doing research isn’t enough — you need to convince people to act on it

How to find and deal with edge cases in UX design. Learn how to identify and address edge cases when working as a UX designer


Fresh articles by Nielsen Norman Group:

Study Guide: Quantitative Research

Service Blueprints: How to Choose What Experience to Visualize

🎥 Don't Overthink UX ROI

🎥 Video Game Design and User Experience


Case study: Building a better kitchen user experience

Opinion:

Jason Hreha about the Death of Behavioral Economics. Thanks 2 UX News New UX

A Look at Skeuomorphic UI Design

Interesting: Elise Blanchard understands why links in browsers are usually highlighted in blue. She has taken apart a bunch of interfaces from the late 80s and early 90s and refers to a specific point in the version update history of the classic Mosaic browser on April 12, 1993. Thanks 2 Pdigest

Eli Penner talks about some web animation experiments he spied on in games. Thanks 2 Pdigest

💵 Are you creating usability reports no one’s reading? Consider rainbow spreadsheets instead

💵 Should researchers make design recommendations? Academic objectivity vs. real world projects

💵 A/B testing v.s. preference testing. Is preference testing a viable alternative to split testing?

💵 Why you should think accessibility from the design phase?

💵 4 design frameworks you probably haven’t heard of and how to start experimenting

💵 Systematic and Sustainable Mobile App Design in 9 Steps

💵 Creating a positive culture around accessibility. Baking inclusive design into your business is a recipe for success

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​Never underestimate the importance of kerning

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Learning the value of aesthetics in product at UX+

5 tips for evaluating the design value you make

Shopify's Katie Del Angel shares UX Research Experience to improve Accessibility with fable. She gives an example of several scenarios. Thanks 2 pdigest

UI Images 10 best practices to help you master images in UI design

Fresh articles by Nielsen Norman Group:

Structuring Intranet Discovery & Design Research

🎥 A Designer's Identity. What does it mean to be a "designer?" Let's broaden the definition, based on the purpose, not the discipline

🎥 Translating UX Concepts into Design Practice. Edgar Anzaldua presents a 6-year case study of learning and applying ever-more subtle UX concepts and growing his influence


Beginners: Startup founders guide to user interviews

#tips #design #accessibility #practice #UI #intranet #discovery #NNG #terminology #prototyping #beginners #guide #interview

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Mental hijacking. A mental model to use and abuse

Improving the filtering UX for enterprise solutions

Gestalt Principles at the rescue

Analyzing the new Tesla update “2021 .24.5”

A Comparative Study of Dark Patterns Across Mobile and Web Modalities. Thanks 2 Product Science

The 4 questions to ask yourself before creating an interactive visualization

UX design: MAC or PC - what’s the difference

Elements of design: The wows and hows of abstract art

The mind of a designer

Understanding elements of design the fun way


Fresh articles by Nielsen Norman Group:

Study Guide: Facilitating UX Workshops

🎥 Social Proof in UX. Users take cues from other humans: if many others like something or do something, that makes people feel that this thing must be good

🎥 Triangulation: Combine findings from multiple User Research methods


Interesting:

Where does the impetus for change come from?

4 keyboards innovations. Keyboard seems irreplaceable, still innovations are made to try to disrupt it


Opinion: Why empathy with your users is not enough

💵 Designing products with love. Creating love-love-love scenarios

#mental #darkpatterns #vizualization #design #mindset #NNG #guide #workshop #triangulation #interesting #prototyping #opinion #scenarios

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