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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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A list of tools and recommendations for a successful UX process from research to design

Disabled buttons in user interface

🎥 'A Lens a Day', conversations about Information Architecture. Thanks 2 UX News New UX

Applying Dieter Rams design principles for creating compelling digital products

Why reCAPTCHA is the worst UX decision for your business

Using video games to learn about product onboarding


Fresh articles by Nielsen Norman Group:

How to write a mission statement for a UX Team: A case study in design operations

Online shoppers take note of socially conscious retailers

🎥 Advanced user testing methods for accelerating innovation

🎥 Working memory and external memory


Case Study:

Building an onboarding portal

Re-design a Startup Product


Interesting: UX and Interior Design - a match made in heaven

💵 Improving data quality in online studies. Techniques and strategies for UX Researchers, Market Researchers, and anyone doing online research

💵 A small selection of historical primary sources of basic interface techniques from Olesya Vdovenko: categorization, layout, etc. Thanks 2 pdigest

💵 Accessibility: The art of designing for everyone. 7 guidelines for creating a more inclusive web experience

💵 Opinion: How UX research revolutionized the checkout process

#process #tools #IA #prototyping #onboarding #game #NNG #methods #memory #case #startup #interesting #strategy #techniques #accessibility #opinion #checkout

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Rows and Columns. Part 1: Jump-starting Analysis Using Spreadsheets & Part 2: Using Formulas to Tally Data

Do people use all available response options

Designing Accordions: Best practices

A comprehensive guide to AI assistant design

Francesca Valentini has compiled a list of design games and tests, many have been known for a long time, but the selection is good. Thanks 2 pdigest

Guide to human-centered product design and delivery

Tools to make a great product design process

Demystifying remote user testing at Meesho

Interesting: From nearly $1 million in debt to a household name — James Dyson dishes on his biggest hits and misses


Opinion:

Let’s talk about User Research project plans

What Is a Good User Experience?


Beginners:

An Introduction to UX Research

The ultimate beginners guide to UX research in 2022 (From Google & IDEO UX researchers)

Why understanding business objectives is imperative to good design

Books that helped me become a better writer that have (almost) nothing to do with writing

So you’re a non-native English UX writer. What now?


💵 A survival guide to user interviews

💵 Figma Guide for Auto Layout & Constraints

💵 Design insights, thanks to the pandemic. Cognitive leaks, changing user expectations and improved design awareness

💵 Deathloop — UI in videogames. Looking at how AAA games handle User Interfaces

#excel #data #analysis #feedback #prototyping #guide #game #AI #tools #process #methods #interesting #opinion #strategy #beginners #uxwriting #figma #design #patterns

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It’s wednesday

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21 UX laws that inadvertently influence user behavior

Everything about user research and biases

7 simple ways to boost your websites's CX

Inclusive design is the key to great user experiences

User research and fast and rigorous user personas — CXL Review


Fresh articles by Nielsen Norman Group:

Prioritize Quantitative Data with the Pareto Principle. Prioritize the 20% of your website or app responsible for 80% of a critical metric to generate substantial improvements for less effort

How to Handle Category Outliers in Your IA

🎥 Design Thinking Learner's Journey. Research with people who are learning Design Thinking shows that they progress in a nonlinear manner through 4 phases of increasing competency and confidence

🎥 Enterprise User Experience. Trends for improving the user experience for enterprise software and other internal design projects

🎥 Better UX Deliverables. Communicating UX work and findings to the full team, stakeholders, and leadership requires engaging deliverables. Amanda Gulley shared her experience improving the design and usability of UX deliverables at a UX Conference participant panel


Interesting: The history of typography - retracing letter forms from hieroglyphs to Helvetica


Beginners:

Algorithms vs heuristics

UX Laws to improvise your next design and 7 Important UX Laws (with examples)


Opinion:

Your user might not be your buyer

Why Tesla Bot & Amazon Astro shows you the future of interaction design is already here


Case study:

The Onboarding Experience

A WhatsApp feature for busy users

New Mobile UI/UX for Assistive Music Technology

Mapping the User Journey of Buying an Air Fryer

Journey of ordering my smart watch

My journey to the nearest pizza outlet

My Journey of buying a Table Fan

User Journey Mapping purchasing Bluetooth earphones


💵 User-centred vs human-centred design. An important distinction for methodology planning

💵 The 3 Categories of Ergonomics and Their Impact on the User Experience

#laws #bias #CX #accessibility #persona #NNG #quantitative #pareto #IA #desigtninking #CJM #enterprise #interesting #typography #heuristics #opinion #case #HCD #methodology #ergonomics

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A Framework for Decision Driven Research. A UXR-tested and approved framework for doing more focused and impactful user research to enable better, more efficient decision-making

Rules of UX: Perspective of Psychology in UX Design

How to estimate SUS using the UX-Lite

Project management for UX researchers. 5 key skills for successful and impactful research

3 key workflows for user-centric products

Why web accessibility is even more important in 2020 and in the face of COVID-19

Human-centered design with Canva’s Nadia Surtees

Data Storytelling — turn data into high impact visual stories that stick with your intended users

Content design helps teams consider the larger story

How discord meets its users: A standpoint from human cognitive psychology

Mental Models in research synthesis — Setting the user free into 3 dimensionality

Opinion: Let’s take UX Research more seriously. A case in expanding value


Beginners:

13 Laws of UX (again, yes)

7 reasons why UX is more than beautiful interfaces — for the last time


Case study:

Calibrating extraction on Nespresso’s UX

Implementing scarcity error on an open-trip app


💵 17 tools that will streamline your UX Research

💵 Learnings from working in the real world after UX bootcamp

💵 Designing accessible websites: guidelines that every UX designer needs to know

💵 Opinion: Prisoners of experience

#framework #research #psychology #SUS #management #workflow #accessibility #storytelling #content #uxwriting #opinion #beginners #case #tools

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Amplifying Research Impact

UX User Interviewing 10(+)1

Top web design books you need to read

7 Magic “Mores” to Improve UX/UI. An easy way to identify problems and optimize your website or app

Beginners: The differences between UI and UX — Two often fused terms

Opinion: The future of design: a bureaucratic dystopia

Interesting: High-speed threats in a shared public space


Case Study:

Research: LINE Apps

User-Centered Redesign & Visual Improvements of UBA Mobile Banking App

New Mobile Blockchain UI/UX for Technological Literary Revival


💵 Heuristic evaluation. User experience design learning series

#research #interview #tips #beginners #opinion #interesting #case #heuristics

Have a great weekend and take care of yourself ❤️

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Driving user centricity: Remotely building an experience vision

Product Solutioning: How to decide what to build

Games UX Testing with artificial intelligence

Artificial intelligence and chatbots — creating positive experiences

How a strong relationship between Product Management and UX delivers richer value for Envato users

5 pillars of effective landing page design


Fresh articles by Nielsen Norman Group:

Study Guide: Context Methods

UX-Maturity Stage 3: Emergent. A company’s UX efforts at this stage are functional and promising, but inconsistent and inefficient

🎥 Product & UX Partnerships. Product management and user experience should partner throughout product development. But how? Here are 5 tips

🎥 The Aesthetic Usability Effect and Prioritizing Appearance vs. Functionality


Book Review: Will the Machine Take Over? Ethics in Artificial Intelligence

Opinion: The start of a new era for Responsive Web Design


Case study:

The world of Product Designers

Gamification Features for Campaign.com

Optimizing kitchen experience

Redesign the Skilvul app

Redesigning the Liquiditeam homepage for better a11y


💵 The business impact of design in 2021 — stats included

💵 Why you should develop a UX roadmap. An underused tool for buy-in, alignment, and impact

💵 Opinion: New technologies are useless. But ergonomics and designer can find them purposes

#process #product #game #AI #landing #NNG #guide #methods #maturity #management #video #aesthetic #book #opinion #responsive #case #redesign #design

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3 out of 5 users have this issue. An important article about sampling in qualitative research and an attempt to take a different look at the problem of indicating the number of people who were wrong

Every inexperienced UX designer makes this mistake

10 tips for observing usability testing sessions

Three ways to measure a user’s prior experience

Attract users’ attention with update alerts

Creative Navy reviewed methods to help simplify first-time use of physical device interface (and beyond) - Thanks 2 pdigest 4 link

A simple solution for the user recruitment problem in UX research

User experience design process - a simple & practical approach

The problem with “click here” and “learn more” links

The most accessible button color for colorblind users

How to say goodbye to your users smartly

Product lifecycle & post launch experiences


Opinion:

When to skip UX Research (it's better not to do it)

The toxicity of performative UX. Over the past couple years, the User Experience field has become the hot topic — much to the field’s detriment


Case Study:

Edumart: Online Course App

Digital consumer banking experience for Millennials

#process #design #tips #usability #experience #update #methods #physical #recruitment #link #prototyping #accessibility #product #opinion #case #millenial

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How to recruit difficult users — busy professionals, specific or sensitive users — more smoothly, on a tight budget and time constraint

The ethics of session-replay tools

What we have learned from working on digital accessibility

Accordions. While accordions may seem like a simple component, there is more to them than meets the eye. When designing these components, there are a few things to consider, and that is what we will look at today in this cheat sheet

What metrics are the most important for your product by Intercom

Fast and responsive hero videos for great UX

Designers: 20 awesome Figma plugins to improve your workflow

Beginners: If you're transitioning to UX, you may be new to UX research. It's a huge topic, so where do you start

Opinion: Design is not art, and UX is not design. Why designers have ditched the art persona and hijacked the UX industry


Interaction Design Foundation:

What is Good Design

What are Color Modes

How to use Grid Dystems

Understand Color Symbolism

What is Type

What Is Type Anatomy


Case Study:

How we scaled user research for the early Digit Beta

Design Thinking: Enhancing the experience of users’ utility space

Improving the loan application and savings process for cooperatives in Nigeria

Poor user experience for travelers in 2021


💵 Beginners: How to figure out the user’s backstory? Understanding the user’s actual needs and preferences is not sufficient. Spoiler: here it is the source from Intercom

💵 EV Chargers: How It Works. An Engineer’s and User’s Perspective

💵 Opinion: Why the Human Factor Slow Down the Emergence of New Tech

#recruitment #ethical #accessibility #prototyping #metrics #accordion #video #guide #design #plugin #figma #beginners #uxwriting #opinion #IDF #terminology #case #designthinking #automotive

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10 types for great UX research

UX In Cars. A Status Report

User experience and designing for UX accessibility

Diary studies “Qualitative Research Method”

The Difference: User Journeys vs User Flows

The KLAD method: a quick way to analyze an audience based on personas

Horizontal versus vertical rating scales

Five foods for thought from 2021’s top UX design podcasts

How designers can prevent user errors

Opinion: Hick’s Law — is it what you think?


Case Study:

User research on one of the most active & popular CBCs in India

Designing a Website for Finding Apartments

Redesign MyIndiHome (Payment Feature, Details Internet Data Usage Feature, & Redeem Point Feature)

Designing an online photography platform for a studio


💵 Dysfunctional systems: Why are we designing for addiction?

💵 Why are NPS and personas so enduring despite their flaws

#methods #automotive #diary #Userflow #journey #KLAD #scale #rating #podcast #errors #prototyping #law #case #opinion #redesign #design #NPS

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