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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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Sharing power with survivors in UX research

User Research — The ultimate guide for product managers

Measuring user experience for human-robot collaborative interfaces

Daily UX writing challenge — Flight Canceled!✈️

Effective UX Strategies for educational websites

💵 Product scientists are essential to connecting product, AI, UX, and Ops

🗞 Weekly: How Dogfooding improves company culture

Book: Just enough research

Process: Human-Centered design and its use in the lab

Experience: Empathy as a skill — How social work helped me become a UX Researcher

Career: Tips for building an amazing UX Research portfolio

Case Study: Farmtail


Prototyping:

Payment system rating in Exness

Are you sure you want this button?


Opinion:

Mobile onboarding looks nice, but it’s often a bandaid for poor UX

💵 Present actionable insights that stakeholders actually care about. Synthesize research and provide recommendations that deliver business value

💵 Design: Designing for errors in UX design


Beginners:

How to get nice insights from a user testing ✨

Useful tips for designing VUIs


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Make card sorting even more impactful with this simple scoring formula

Personas — don’t miss the forest for the trees

What is product metrics map and how to build it

3 pitfalls of fast-paced UX research

3 practical uses of the UUP UX metric


Fresh articles by Nielsen Norman Group:

Accidental dismissal of overlays: a common mobile usability problem

Dot coding: an activity to elicit perspectives in UX workshops

🎥 "Why" Beats "What" in UX (UX Slogan #6)

🎥 The number one reason for not doing UX Research


Process:

Fuel decision-making with rapid user testing

Design Thinking — Developing new ideas

Enhancing the user experience of the storage area


Opinion:

Defining user experience

The different faces of Jobs to be Done (JTBD)


Prototyping: Text fields in UI Design — 7 common styles

Beginners: Want to invest in UX research? First, ensure your company is insights-ready

Interesting: Emojis mean business — The characters transforming business messaging


Design:

Terms every UX designer should know

The 5 biggest UX design mistakes companies make and how to avoid those errors

Motion design: how to win hearts & minds of your users?


Case Study:

Tinder: UX Research case study

Tinder App

Tinder premium plan

Improving the User Experience of parking areas

Shopee

Illustrating design thinking process by improving UX of Home Office

Ideabox by Telkom Digital Amoeba

Go food app and new delivery feature

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How can you help team members adopt the research insights better?

How rapid usability testing is changing UX Research

Diary studies paired with thoughtful communication can deliver valuable insights to researchers & stakeholders alike

Building a case for qualitative research

How to thrive as a UX research manager

5 ways to use data visualization in your content to increase traffic

AI and machine learning: The power behind today’s best customer-research platforms

💵 The ups and downs of the UXR job market. How things have changed over a volatile year for technology

Design: Think introverted; act extroverted. How to be a design leader and still be yourself

Process: The 5 maturity levels of atomic research - How mature is your organization? by Axel Johnston

Experience: My journey with the design thinking process

Interesting: What a 52-year-old watch can teach us about UX and Digital Product Design


Opinion:

UX Leaders’ getting a seat at the top table

Personas should be living and breathing

User experience (UX) design is a philosophy


Beginners:

Top 5 books for UX Researchers

User research guide for an Idea, MVP or a Feature. Behavioural vs Attitudinal and Qualitative vs Quantitative

Research fundamentals

Usability heuristics — principles that differentiate good and poor UX


Case study:

Disney+ Hotstar

Rethinking navigation at ReviewTrackers

Mycare 👩‍⚕️

Rethinking the way to implement water drinking habit

Arcade UX/ UI

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Upcoming UX Conferences to attend in 2023

Guide: Usability heuristics analysis

Business software UX & NPS benchmarks (2022)

💵 Gestalt Perception: The interplay between UX Design and User Psychology

🗞 Weekly: Better UX research review meetings

Process: Our rapid prototyping process with android automotive

Book: Practical user research for enterprise UX

💵 Experience: Why I used Notion to document my UX Research case study

Opinion: Democratizing UX research — yes or no?


Design:

Spinning up a research plan for product designers

UI Animation — How to apply Disney’s 12 principles of animation to UI Design


Beginners:

Introducing business design patterns. What they are, their ROI, and further considerations

Simple research Plan UX


Case Study:

Online messaging tool

Landing Jobs

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Customer Experience will kill your business if you ignore this

Logistic management system using location-based guidings to mimic the modern network mesh (Hypothesis)

How the psychology of colour drives your decisions

Improving the accessibility of parking areas during monsoon season

Citymapper: problem-solving through Design Thinking

💵 UX research analysis and findings — How a UX Researcher can be their own Project Manager

Prototyping: Apple Dynamic Island — What’s good and bad about it

Interesting: Research vs Vision - the origin story of Sony Walkman, Mini Cooper, and the iPhone


Fresh articles by Nielsen Norman Group:

AR-Onboarding walkthroughs in mobile Apps

Who does DesignOps? Common DesignOps roles and partnerships

🎥 Audience-Based website navigation

🎥 Types of user pain points


Opinion:

Empathy is just the gateway

Designing for “delight” is dead

Why lyricists can make great UX Writers


Design:

Introducing business design patterns. What they are, their ROI, and further considerations

Accessible design fundamentals

Analytics Dashboard? Guide with questions [Design Techniques]

The evolution of User Experience Design


Beginners:

Impact of cognitive bias in UX Research and how to overcome it

Spinning up a research plan for product designers

Are you interviewing users? Remember these 8 rules!


Case Study:

How a card sort helped a top financial firm create an intuitive IA

UX of tenure selection in a loan application

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Make your research reusable: introducing the information library for UX Research

Designing User Experience for the Metaverse

Practical guide to collecting feedback and data

How to do a website UX audit? Step by step complete guide

💵 UX research analysis and findings. How a UX Researcher can be their own Project Manager

Process: Usability testing complex systems on domain experts


Prototyping:

7 crucial tips for building dashboards users actually love to use

Progress indicators: 4 common styles

Your app needs a new search bar to grow

💵 Working with Webflow templates


Beginners:

User interviews: essential guidelines for their conducting

Experiences for everyone in everywhere. Experience design on brands, products and services

User-Centered Design


Opinion:

The best way to start a new project — CAQ Matrix

User-Centered Design — The importance of user personas

💵 6 UX failures that diminish goodwill & how to solve them

💵 Experience: The magic of 5 a.m. A lot of people are concerned when they hear I wake up at 5 a.m. but it’s not really as dire as it might sound

Case Study:

How we redesign user experience in KAI Access

Kitabisa Donation and Fundraising for Initiatives

Redesigning Kitabisa apps

Creating more transparent and replenishing pathways to activism

Waste4Change

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A new approach to focus groups

Five analytics UX challenges SaaS products face

💵 People don’t always fully understand UX. Here’s how to address that

8 actionable tips to 3X your blog traffic using UX

Prototyping: Bottom tab bar design best practices

🗞 Weekly: User Research vs. Vision

Design: Into design systems weekly — Build design systems with Figma tokens & more

Interesting: Three lessons from a man who averted nuclear war by not trusting a computer


Opinion:

Changing the mindset of male dominated society through UX

💵 The myth of customer centricity

Design thinking doesn’t always lead to the best solution


Process:

Accessibility should be a priority in your design team

What do you need for an effective and engaging team retrospective?


Beginners:

User Interviewing 101. How to connect more empathetically and get more out of interviews

Usability testing tip: avoid diminutive terms when talking about tasks

How does UX audit contribute to higher sales in the online marketplace?

How UX research can improve your product’s chances of success


Case Study:

Gamification feature in campaign ForChange

Wicked problems, city mobility

Waste4Change Mobile App

Redesign of Crowde Website

Amartha Gold investment

Mendesain Ulang Tampilan web apps

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Emotional & Cognitive processing of software design

Busting the myths about Agile Development and User Research

Process: How to build a Design Thinking culture

Prototyping: Dashboards. Go beyond data visualisation

Beginners: How to conduct unmoderated user testing

Opinion: From surviving to thriving — 4 trends driving conscious experience design

Design: Visual hierarchy in visual design

Experience: Unleashing the power of the employee with a great User Experience

Interesting: What keyboard layouts can teach us about the world


Assistive technology:

What is it? Why should you include assistive technology testing in your user research?

Recruiting and preparing for research sessions


Fresh articles by Nielsen Norman Group:

UX Stakeholders: Study Guide

How K-Pop apps create the illusion of private messaging with celebrities

Successful onboarding for new hires in UX roles

🎥 Why UX? — Key arguments why companies should have systematic user-experience processes

🎥 Visual Hierarchy


Case Study:

Sports Venue Booking App — YellowCard

A generative research about the “escrow payment” feature

Enhancing the user experience of a living room

Creating a more engaging Balcony experience

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Usability heuristic frameworks: Which one is right for you? Going beyond Nielsen’s Usability Heuristics (with Infographic)

UX Audit vs Competitive Audit: Two of the most important aspects of the UX research process

Information architecture: how to make it worth your time & money


Prototyping:

User research for a product page

Web usability practices: Breadcrumbs as a part of user experience

How to design user-friendly buttons


Process:

How to work with difficult stakeholders

2 rituals to energize your cross-functional remote team


Beginners:

If you’re a UX bird, I’m a UX bird. How empathy maps can help your understanding of users soar

What is systems thinking and how can it improve your user experience?


Opinion:

Tracking the impact of UX Research — a framework. Why we should measure research (even if no one asks us to)

User-centered, human-centered, or humanity-centered design?

What is not research?


Fresh articles by Nielsen Norman Group:

Personas: Study guide

🎥 Strategic & reactionary user research

Why field-study sessions go wrong: 5 common problems

Augmented-reality calibration in mobile apps: 10 guidelines

🎥 UX Design Prioritization Methods

🎥 Vertical Navigation


Case Study:

Understanding learners on their journey of acquiring skills outside academics

Redesigning an onboarding journey of a securities market

Drop restaurant management App

Mixed methods UX Research: A blockchain community case study

E-commerce microsite

Krealogi - simple customer relationship management (CRM)

Who wants to hear a spell? Jewelry Abra-Kadabra 🪄✨

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A complete guide to UX Research for web 3.0 products

Usability testing: Math behind magic number 5

What percentage of participants think aloud?

Run activity based interviews to maximize your time with users

Usability testing a mobile app remotely: 4 simple methods

User onboarding checklist for businesses

These five software topics are boring but important (Performance, simplicity, building for users, accessibility, every new tool should be used)

💵 Information architecture: how to make it worth your time & money

💵 Another 5 influential unseen factors that change the user experience


Process:

User Interviews — The less romantic parts about a PMs most desired work

10 ways to build a customer-centric culture in tech organizations


Prototyping:

Instagram addiction and possible design solutions

Website hero section: 6 design best practices


Opinion:

Simplicity and UX

💵 Is UX Dead? — resetting the expectation of a UX career


Beginners:

How to make sure your user experience is complete

Questions to ask when you conduct a user research interview

A practical guide in user research, a 5-step process of doing your first one, and some best practices

Tips on user experience and usability, or how to make customers love your product


Case Study:

Motivate you to study — Online Course App

Online learning application (Digitalku)

Edutech: Acourseline

S-Course: Prototype learning management system

💵 Mood Tracking App

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People don’t read online — they scan. This is how to write for them

Design Thinking improves your data science

A simple guide to setting survey questions. How to ask the right questions for your next survey

Being prepared for unpredictability during remote usability testing

My current method to manage and run usability testing in 2022 — writing questions and metrifying interfaces

Designing with users’ perspectives

Gamification in product design (UI/UX)

Quiz — Check your knowledge about Gestalt Principles

🗞 Weekly:  From head of UX Research to freelancer

Career: How do you measure your growth in a career in UX?

Opinion: The need for empathetic research — From consumer to human insights

Interesting: GENESYS — An interactive computer-mediated animation system


Process:

Double Diamond

Bringing user-centered thinking to your organization: 7 things to consider


Beginners:

How to get into UX research

Empathy Map, User Persona and User Flow


Case Study:

UX Research Report Study Case: Disney+ Hotstar

Aplikasi Pemesanan Kos-kosan Online

Journey of building an Art gallery app

Track all your expenses easily with Expensify

Jago Last Wish

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HEART framework for measuring UX

How to run User Research projects effectively

9 things to remember when doing the evaluation

3 practical tips to selling design research in your company — short thoughts about design

How to build a killer product proposition with user research

Visual Notes for “Just Enough Research” by Erika Hall

UXers, we need to stop bashing ‘assumptions’ and start aligning them

UX is more than usability

The importance of User Experience Research when building education technology tools

6 reasons not to use Grammarly for your writing

💵 Why ignorance is the natural state of mind for a UX researcher

Process: Why user research doesn’t happen. And what you can do to change that

💵 Career: What employers want from UX Research candidates

Interview: Sustainable, conscious, and user-centric design — An interview with Abhishek Dahiya, CDO at intive

Experience: User Research — What I learned in my first year at a large tech company

Opinion: “Too many clicks!” — Bad UX?

Interesting: A Gardener’s Guide to DesignOps


Beginners:

Top 8 ways used by Product Managers to understand the users

How to get user feedback

💵 Common mistakes in UX research


Case Study:

Shopee Revamp: Delivery Option

Design Sprint. Inside a design sprint at a Neoland school bootcamp

Employing User Experience design to clarify a company’s ethos and reduce website friction

Travela Hotel Booking App


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Fact-Based UX: Qualitative, Quantitative, or Quali-Quantitative Research?

UX and NPS Benchmarks of Ticketing Websites (2022)

Remote or face to face user research? A flexible approach

5 tips for successful research interviews: Remote & Stress-free

How to overcome social desirability bias in your research

The most frequent UX mistakes. Part 1 — Usability Testing

Landing page and Homepage: What is the difference regarding UX?

Experience: User Research — What I learned in my first year at a large tech company

🗞 Weekly: Really old UX research

Instrument: New features to speed up analysis when customer feedback feels like a firehose

Design: Designing for users with disabilities: 10 factors to consider

💵 Interesting: The UX of a Banana


Prototyping:

How to save your dashboard from sinking

Applying the 8 golden rules of user-interface design


Process:

UX insight reports are for the toilet (stalls)

Utilizing UX Research to prioritize new features

Level up your team’s accessibility expertise with this free course

5 steps to product testing success


Opinion:

What’s really the future of browsers?

UXers, we need to stop bashing ‘assumptions’ and start aligning them

The occasional badassery of UX Research skills


Beginners:

How user interviews can be done right, reusable, and in a few clicks

Ethnography in Product Management

The 5 Whys — How to make the most of this method

Why a bad User Experience can bias your MVP

Case Study:

How we made our product web accessible

Maker Vault User Research

LearnUX — Becoming an expert designer

Bllocc — Link shortener web App

Butcher’s Reservation and Delivery App

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Experimental design using STAR

Insights for the future of UX Research: A recap of dscout People Nerds Conference 2022

When the MoSCoW prioritisation method meets a card sort

Importance of user centred analysis

Toward a more accessible Metaverse

Should you do UX Research yourself, or hire an agency?

💵 4 writing crimes every UX Writer should never do

💵 Stop dividing generative and evaluative research

💵 9 frictions in freemium music apps. Psychological play in Spotify and YouTube Music

Prototyping: The evolving philosophy behind ticketing systems at Intercom

Design: What is Persona and how to develop it to enhance the design process?


Experience:

Bit by the UX fairy. How to pull from past experience to improve your UX practice

How I went from unemployed to a self-made UXR @ Google & Disney with no UX education


Opinion:

Why instagram cannot be replaced anytime soon?

What Design Thinking and Human Centered Design can learn from Marketing Research

How meditation helped me become better at UX-design


Beginners:

UI vs UX vs Product Design: What’s the difference?

How to meet your users: User survey tips and tricks


Case Study:

Using UX design to improve mobility in the public transport of Paris

Improving the search experience of an online marketplace

Culture & Heritage - solving a wicked problem through the process of design thinking

KFC Malaysia

Connecting volunteers to opportunities

Jago last wish an innovative feature for the future

Medlo: For a doctor appointment App

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