The most relevant articles on the topic of UX over the past weekend:

A comprehensive guide to understanding customers and making better UX decisions

Google UX HEART Framework: Project Management

Improve your UX with heatmaps

10 Essential Ethical Practices For Designers

Crystine Gray from Facebook describes how to communicate exploratory user research where its immediate applicability is not always clear. Thanks 2 pdigest

More than 10 years have passed since the inception of the concept of responsive design. Una Kravets proposes to expand it and include all possible ways to customize for a specific user, including a dark theme or minimal animation settings. Thanks 2 pdigest


Fresh articles by Nielsen Norman Group:

Feature checklists are not enough: How to avoid making bad software

🎥 Love at First Sight in Eyetracking

Local Navigation is a valuable orientation and wayfinding aid

🎥 The Role of Design Ethics in UX


Beginners: Journey into the world of Design Systems

💵 How to use a split complementary color scheme in design

💵 Quantitative or qualitative research? Why not explore all 5 approaches to research

💵 Designing for retention. The allure of high switching costs.

💵 Typography selection in design and what you need to know about

💵 A Primer for computer graphics in VR/AR design

UX Horn #research #framework #ethics #NNG #heatmap #process #eyetracking #checklist #guide #designsystem #navigation #design #color #retention #typography #VR #AR

Productive week and take care of yourself 🚀

The most interesting articles on the topic of UX over the past few days:

The Role of UX: 2020 Benchmark Study Report and Analysis

Characteristics of a good user experience

The unseen benefits of accessibility

Accessibility and Inclusivity: Distinctions in Experience Design

Video Games Lessons for Product Designers. Spoiler: you should be playing more videogames

🎥 The Psychology of Speed. We intuitively know that faster is better, but what's the psychology and physiology behind it

Task Flows and the Process of Designing Interactions

Unlocking complex problems by working with domain experts

Why "How might we" Design Thinking approach do not work for complex social problems and what are the possible alternatives by Tricia Wang. Thanks 2 UX News New UX

Software testing life cycle guide: step-by-step to a perfect UX

Parsing: UX Issues in Microsoft Teams & Stream 2021

What is the key to developing a killer UX case study

The history of the wheeled suitcase or how cultural and gender stereotypes can slow down the inventions UX. Thank 2 News New UX

How to deal with criticism when people hate your designs

How to Design for Non-native English Speakers

What is the Tesla “Dog mode”

Case Study: How we moved away from Skeuomorphism. With references in the end

The psychology of branding

💵 How to share your UX research. Tips for making reports your colleagues will actually read

💵 7 classic laws of UX. A tried-and-true collection of proven principles that can help designers build better interfaces

💵 A guide to emotional journey mapping. A UX Research technique that will help you analyse how the user perception changes throughout a service experience

💵 Making forms more user-friendly. Practical tips for designing simple and inclusive forms for the web

💵 How to use triadic color scheme in design

UX Horn #study #accessibility #terminology #gamification #process #designthinking #testing #parse #case #stereotypes #criticism #automotive #prototyping #psychology #branding #reports #law #guide #CJM #color

It’s wednesday 🐸

The most relevant articles on the topic of UX over the past few days:

Optimistic UI Patterns for Improved Perceived Performance

Design System is not a barrier for UX

Begginers: User interface design: 4 rules you need to know

Safari bottom bar business. Apple has recently revealed the new features of iOS 15 at WWDC21, among them the bottom address bar

Mobile-first is dead! Is it?! Is mobile-first still relevant for foldable devices and VR/AR?

How to Compare a Net Promoter Score with a Benchmark

Case Study: Introducing Scheduling and Subscriptions on Swiggy. Designing experience for the users so that they can schedule & subscribe to the food of their choice

Opinion: Cheap is chic! Why being frugal is the next big thing in design

Interesting: ‘Doctor Who’ made London’s police boxes famous. Can this redesign make them useful?

💵 User Experience of Search-Bar

💵 How to Prototype AR experiences with Reality Converter, Reality Composer and Blender — Tutorial

💵 UI/UX First Principles: Reasoning

💵 Begginers: Why you should establish a research practice — and the challenges you’ll likely face

UX Horn #pattern #designsystem #beginners #design #case #AR #VR #NPS #interesting #prototyping #opinion #redesign #guide #apple

See u next week! ✨

The most relevant articles on the topic of UX over the past weekend:

Usability Heuristics on Critical Systems — #1 Visibility of Status

The tool to turn around user research findings fast at Monzo

Try to separate them, you’ll come to this conclusion. UX writers and UX designers are two halves of the same apple. And they’re best kept close to each other. At all times

How To Design User Rating and Reviews

🎥 Indi Young (writer, and UX researcher) at From Business to Buttons 2021 virtual conference


Fresh articles by Nielsen Norman Group:

10 Usability Heuristics Applied to Virtual Reality

Why 5 participants are okay in a qualitative study, but not in a quantitative one

🎥 DesignOps maturity is currently low according to 9 metrics we collected across 500 companies with UX teams

🎥 About UI Modes and Modals


Opinion:

Understanding the Evolution of UX: Expanding Upon the Foundation of Information Architecture

Negative space is the silence you need to see


Begginers: Getting started with UX research. Look at the steps to take to conduct UX research, focusing particularly on usability studies.

8 creative ways to design your hero section

💵 Recommended resources for User Researchers

💵 Combining our UX metrics with compelling, emotional stories

💵 Opinion: It’s time to move on from Design Thinking

💵 How to use a tetradic color scheme in design? A rectangle of colors (double complementary)

💵 Beginners: What UX lessons can UX designers learn from .io games?

UX Horn #heuristic #usability #research #process uxwriting #prototyping #NNG #metrics #opinion #beginners #IA #resource #color #gamification

Productive week and take care of yourself 🍀

The most relevant articles on the topic of UX over the past few days:

Leveraging mental models in product design

How to write a survey question

Seven steps to design error messages

The little book of accessibility

UX design books worth reading. Need to mention that there is a 2nd part of the book "100 things every designer needs to know about people"

A closer look at cart abandonment

Creating a UX strategy for digital projects

UI tips to improve your heading UX

Opinion: Bringing markers back to UI design

Key mobile UI design mistakes in 2021

The advice to the young designers from Tobias van Schneider. Thanks to UX News New UX

How to minimize the side effects of your product

Problems versus dilemmas: The complex trade-offs produced by social settings from VP of Facebook

Interesting: The topple of an iceberg - you're drawing it wrong. It turns out all those "tip of an iceberg"-drawings are giving the wrong idea

💵 How can UX help to close the tech talent gap? UX is not only about making websites and apps easy to use for consumers. It can actually help in closing the tech talent gap

💵 The user research technique that can help you in a time crunch. How to avoid bad design decisions due to time pressure

💵 How to make your research usable. Running a UX industry survey through a predictive model

UX Horn #mentalmodel #servey #prototyping #books #accessibility #strategy #tips #opinion #mistakes #design #advice #sideeffect #interesting

It’s wednesday again 🐸

The most interesting articles on the topic of UX over the past few days:

Mobile design essentials: clothes & fashion product details page

Designing persuasive banners that don’t ruin your UX

Responsive vs. Adaptive Design: Everything You Need to Know

When designing with text, don’t make this embarrassing mistakes

The dark UX patterns used by online gambling websites

Gendered language and UX writing

Redesigning Designers' Job Levels at Intercom. Thanks 2 UX News New UX

How to design a product page: the ultimate guide

Modern-day UX design and its effects on IT architecture design

Case Study: Creating user personas for a cryptocurrency exchange

Beginners: UX surveys - getting started

Interesting: The most influential designer you’ve never heard of is a 92-year-old artist in SF


Opinion:

Why bad design can actually be good

Personalization has not delivered on Its promise and 4 ways to fix it


💵 Characteristics of a good product design

💵 UX word of the day: speed-accuracy trade-off

UX Horn #prototyping #banners #design #responsive #adaptive #darkpattern #gender #redesign #IA #case #beginners #interesting #opinion #servey #persona #personalization #metrics

See u next week! ✨

The most relevant articles on the topic of UX over the past weekend:

Nine New Nasty UX Truths by Antoine Valot. First article lies here. Thanks 2 UX News New UX

Game UI design: the mechanics of fun experiences

How to design a better bottom navbar?

🚀Free UX writing and Content Design course

Mobile Design Essentials: Cart Summary Page


Fresh articles by Nielsen Norman Group:

Principle of Closure in Visual Design. People tend to fill in blanks to perceive a complete object

The Practice of Customer-Journey Management. User journeys should be managed like products — by people and teams with specialized, journey-dedicated roles who continually research, measure, optimize, and orchestrate the experience

🎥 Remote Usability Testing Costs. Comparing the budgets needed for different kinds of qualitative user research

🎥 Should Experienced Designers Go Back to College? If experienced designers want to learn about psychology and how it applies to user experience, should they get a psychology degree, or is it better to learn on your own?


5 lessons you can learn from Pirates of Caribbean to become a top designer

Beginners: Design documentation - starting our DesignOps journey

Parsing: The Magnificent Trufflepigs. Exploring the UX design of this adventure indie-game and how it can be improved

Case Study: Designing for Healthcare and how to create paradigm-shifting products

User Journey Mapping: Journey of Ordering an Ice Cream

💵 3 user types and how to deal with them during interviews

💵 Balancing user experience and business-centered design. The importance designing solutions for the needs of everyone

💵 7 Tips for UI/UX Design Bootcamp From A Mentor

💵 How to clean quantitative user data — a visual guide. How learning 100 lines of code can save you hours of fixing user data spreadsheets

💵 How Spotify could reinvent the radio

UX Horn #gamification #UI #design #prototyping #navigation #course #uxwriting #NNG #CJM #process #beginners #documentaion #parse #case #interview #tips #guide #data

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The most relevant articles on the topic of UX over the past few days:

Dark patterns that mislead consumers are all over the internet

A huge list of 105 tools for conducting various kinds of research on your users, and not just in bulk from URLs, but with recommendations for what is best for what. Thanks 2 Honest Marketing

UX Myth #6: Larger Texts = Better Usability

UI & UX Micro-Tips: Volume Seven

A/B Testing: Leverage the untapped potential

Bayesian A/B Testing in 5 Minutes

How to do bayesian A/B testing at scale. Thanks 2 a/b testing

How to conduct persona-driven content audits

Book Review: Org Design for Design Orgs

Opinion: The Future of UX Design

Case Study: This is how I design to cover the good and bad scenarios

💵 Difference Between Findability& Discoverability in Less Than 2 Minutes

💵 How to design intuitive interfaces using feedback mechanisms and states. The importance of appropriate and immediate feedback in user interfaces

💵 Beginners: Jakob’s Law of UX

💵 The 11 Principles of Design — Explained. Basics of Design

💵 Colors in Design Systems. Learn how to set your library to have attractive & consistent color palette

💵 Quantity and Location of EV Chargers is Only Half the Battle. The other half is user experience and visibility

💵 Opinion: Why writing is the most overlooked design skill

UX Horn #darkpattern #research #methods #tips #ab #myth #audit #book #opinion #case #prototyping #beginners #design #designsystem #color #visibility #uxwriting

It’s wednesday again 🐸

The most interesting articles on the topic of UX over the past few days:

Ethnography and User Research. How ethnography can help designers gather first-hand information on users and get started on ethnography as a designer or organization

Tips for designing a good login form by Erik D. Kennedy. Thanks 2 pdigest

Jasmine Bilham analyzes gamification in the Duolingo app. She organically fits into the essence of training and does not look far-fetched. Thanks 2 pdigest

Laws of UX outside the screens

Deceive, confuse, wear down: the dark patterns of UX

Usability is the art and science of good design

Beginners: Graphic design vs. UX design: what’s the difference


Case study:

Re-designing the Burger King mobile application

Redesigning Index Page and Checkout


💵 UX researchers and product managers: A guide to effective collaboration

💵 How bad error messages are harming your users

UX Horn #ethnography #research #law #prototyping #darkpattern #usability #design #beginners #case #process #errormessage

See u next week! ✨

The most relevant articles on the topic of UX over the past weekend:

In defense of reusing existing design patterns. Leveraging affordances, signifiers, and standard interaction patterns for intuitive design

UX lessons by video game designers. The power of autonomy and goal-driven products

Digital experience design for learning disability

4 Ways to expand the impact of UX research across an organization

A delightful product. Illustrations add value for the user


Fresh articles by Nielsen Norman Group:

Four Factors in UX Maturity - strategy, culture, process, and outcomes

How Many Participants for Quantitative Usability Studies: A summary of sample-size recommendations

🎥 Design Thinking in Practice

🎥 Statistically-generated personas


Opinion: Cognitive science and user experience — A new dimension of abstract

Beginners: A Guide of UX Writing

💵 Spotting dark patterns: Learn from a petty UX analysis of an “unsubscribe” link

💵 How to design friendly sidebar navigation?

💵 How learning psychology made me a better designer in less than 2 minutes

UX Horn #pattern #gamification #accessibility #process #illustration #maturity #desigthinking #persona #opinion #beginners #prototyping #psychology #darkpattern #uxwriting #guide

Productive week and take care of yourself 🍀

The most relevant articles on the topic of UX over the past few days:

Bias in UX research. Personal notes from Google UX professional certificate

A Closer look at сart abandonment

The User research persona watch list

The Current state of homepage UX – 8 common pitfalls

Meeting the User. Designers models are likely more sophisticated than those of most users

UX migration strategy for legacy applications

Campbell’s Law and the NPS (Net Promoter Score)

Ephemeral Tree: UX design for social connectedness

Futures, features and fixes — Setting your product team up for success

Experience: 7 powerful lessons I learned in design-consulting

Beginners: What you need to pay attention to in your first usability test

Opinion: What is User Experience 2.0?

💵 How To Optimize UX Research with Beusable

💵 Laws of UX learned from Spotify, YouTube, Medium, Twitter, Pinterest, Netflix, Uber, Instagram, etc. Let’s See What UX laws big apps follow for better designing

💵 How to Choose a UX Conference that fits you

@uxhorn_eng #bias #research #cart #persona #tips #strategy #redesign #social #process #experience #beginners #opinion #law #conference

It’s wednesday again 🐸

Several interesting design articles:

The full guide to UI design

UI & UX micro-tips: volume eight

Good product designers / bad product designers

Prototyping: Growing (and Shrinking) Pains. How to fix a broken spacing system

Experience: "5 bitter design manager’s lessons I wish I had learned earlier". From handling user interfaces to handling people

💵 Why designers are not users in 2 Minutes

💵 5 practices that will help you become a senior designer

@uxhorn_eng #digest #design #prototyping #tips #experience #guide

The most interesting articles on the topic of UX over the past few days:

The Coming CX/UX Correction and Shift

The UX of notifications - how to master the art of interrupting

Leveraging Craigslist for UX Research. Craigslist can be a lean and effective tool for rapidly recruiting thousands of research participants on the cheap

Mobile eCommerce essentials: search results page

UI patterns: design solutions to common problems

From a colourblind designer to the world: please stop using red and green together

Shortly about empathy map

Are UI Tips the New Clickbait for Designers. Tools, articles and resources to keep you going

10 simple tips to improve your UX writing

How to handoff UI Design to Dev

Case Study: Empowering a community-driven delivery application

Interesting: Few details about the Windows 95 development process. Thx 2 UX News New UX

💵 Beating the Hawthorne Effect

💵 Responsible innovation: A method to address inequity in Design Thinking

💵 From Marketing to UX: Switching careers with no experience

💵 Personas. A step-by-step guide to getting the most out of persona development beyond the usual template, with a concrete example

💵 Highlights from Google’s “Foundations of UX Design” course

💵 Psychological principles in product design — a closer look at Duolingo

@uxhorn_eng #terminology #notification #prototyping #ecommerce #recruiting #pattern #design #empathymap #uxwriting #guide #tips #process #case #interesting #hawthrone #bias #desigthinking #marketing #persona #psychology

See u next week! ✨

The most relevant articles on the topic of UX over the past weekend!


Fresh articles by Nielsen Norman Group:

Data is more than numbers: Why qualitative data isn’t just opinions

Overlay Overload: Competing popups are an increasing menace

🎥 3 types of onboarding new users

🎥 UX Roadmaps 101. A roadmap is a strategic plan for future user-experience work and user problems to be solved immediately vs. next vs. in the far future


How to build the products that people love

Notable notes: Make your user research easier through efficient note-taking

UX analysis: Apple Music vs. Spotify’s artist page

Desktop vs Mobile design: The only RULE you must know

Quick introduction to Web-monetization


From the product design digest:

Maria Meireles breaks down "Baba is You" using Nielsen's interface heuristics

Atlassian's Kate Towsey gives tips on finding additional bids for the ResearchOps team. How to justify them and in what situations they are generally needed. These are generally good tips for developing any competency in a company.

Creative Navy talks about a quick way to find basic UI issues. This is a combination of researching user reviews, communicating with support and sales, and short interviews with users. It allows you to remove the top layer of problems and get a quick return for the product.

Vivienne Kay talks about Shopify's approach with short video presentations of design and research. These are videos for 5-10 minutes in which the author talks about the current stage and the results of the work. They work great in a remote format.

UK branding agency Dixon Baxi has released a series of videos on how it works and the process. They work at the intersection of classic and digital branding - for example, they made video services Hulu and Pluto, fintech Capital One, and Audible.

📖 Rosenfeld Media has released Caroline Jarrett's Surveys That Work book on conducting surveys. Excerpt from Chapter # 1

Graeme Fulton notes that in recent years the genre of simple tips for designers has grown to unprecedented proportions. In most cases, this is, unfortunately, poor quality advice.


Beginners: Games User Research Methods - an introduction for new researchers


Case Study:

Redesign Homepage Warga Bantu Warga

Redesigning a COVID-19 tracking app for the elderly user


💵 Implicit measures in UX: Can we measure our users’ unconscious motives

💵 How to design and style better links. Usable hyperlinks are the signs of a good user experience

💵 Think-aloud testing for usability: how to get more out of your data

💵 What are the Don’ts and Do’s when creating accessible designs?

💵 Winging a customer journey map even without an actual product in hand

@uxhorn_eng #NNG #qualitatve #popup #prototyping #strategy #digest #heuristic #beginners #redesign #case #book #tips #usability #CJM #accessibility

Productive week and take care of yourself 🍀

The most relevant articles on the topic of UX over the past few days:

Getting the most out of surveys

What a bunch of 1st graders taught about UX

The UX of Music. Exploring the similarities between my two careers

How to calculate your word of mouth coefficient

Redesigning an entire icon system

Habits to stay grounded in a remote world

Lorem Ipsum will destroy your design. And why designers can do with flexing their content muscles a bit

UX and net promoter benchmarks of mass merchant websites

Love robots + UI: The role of AI in the design industry

Prioritizing problems to inform product design


Guide:

Ethical UX-design

UI design principles


Beginners:

Evaluation methods for interaction design. An introduction to different techniques in design evaluation

Data sampling collection types and when to use them


Opinion:

Accessible design from the get-go - just about 20% of designer effort can solve up to 80% of accessibility challenges for digital interfaces

Where is user experience heading?


Case Study: Airtrack - an airline app that delivers the easiest booking experience

💵 Eye-Tracking in usability testing. How valuable is this technique for a UX practitioner

💵 Review: A UX researcher’s review of the Apple Watch


@uxhorn_eng #survey #music #accessibility #uxwriting #redesign #design #product #guide #ethical #beginners #opinion #case #review #eyetracking

It’s wednesday again 🐸

Don’t (only) listen to users. Why listening is just not enough and observation is so important

Balancing UX design and conversion-rate optimization

Best practices for pricing table design

Mitigating user errors

A UX Critique of Outer Wilds. Part 1 and 2


Opinion:

Important lessons I learned in my first year as a User Researcher

Watching the Olympics has been a UX nightmare


Interesting:

How Bob Moog brought usability heuristics to the electronic synthesizer

Occam’s razor: Applying philosophy in design


Beginners:

What is content design and why does it matter?

How to find the top usability problems on your app or website, even if you don’t have a UX designer on your team


Case Study: Turn-key user management for no-code API portals

💵 The impact of the Covid-19 pandemic on UX research practice

💵 Peak–End Rule Of UX

@uxhorn_eng #process #prototyping #table #practices #gamification #critique #opinion #beginners #case

Have a great weekend 🏕

Should UX and Product Management merge?

How to avoid being intimidated by quantitative UX metrics

Why accessibility in design should never be an afterthought


Fresh articles from NN Group:

Study Guide: Qualitative Usability Testing

UX vs. Service Design. User experience is focused on what the end user encounters, whereas service design is focused on how that user experience is internally created

🎥 Better Charts for Analytics & Quantitative UX Data

🎥 Partner with Other Research Teams in Your Organization


Interesting: The UX of electronic synthesizers, unicode arrows, design leadership

Review: FIFA 21 vs. FIFA 11

💵 How to design better destructive action modals

💵 Creating a product vision. A mind map with key steps & deliverables

💵 The most comprehensive books you should read about design

💵 Design Systems: How to create a scalable typography stack

@uxhorn_eng #opinion #terminology #accessibility #metrics #qualitatve #SD #NNG #guide #quantitative #interesting #review #prototyping #product #designsystem #book #design

Trauma-informed design research. Design practice that helps not harms

User-centered design system resources. How to go beyond asset libraries and build systems for people

Case study: Redesigning the user experience of the Thrillophilia app


Opinion:

Should you have a UX Research portfolio?

Why WhatsApp payment isn’t mainstream yet

What should vaccination credentials look like?

How the alt-rock music scene can help us with UX design


Interesting: Pilot error and the shape of things to come. How Alphonse Chapanis, a young psychologist, saved the lives of WWII pilots through clever design

💵 10 Accessibility Best Practices. Improve your site’s accessibility score with these 10 practices

💵 Interface design patterns & principles more ubiquitous than you think

@uxhonr_eng #design #accessibility #case #designsystem #prototyping #opinion #portfolio #interesting #psychology #pattern #principle

It’s wednesday again 🐸

How to test for accessibility with users at every design stage

Twitter’s new font and Last of Us 2: an accessibility lesson to be learned

Lesser-known psychological principles that can improve your conversion rate. How to get deeper into the minds of your users in order to optimise your experience for conversion

Influencing UX stakeholder values: 6 ways to convey the significance of user research

6 reasons why UX and documentation teams are stronger together

What’s the Difference Between Conversation UI and Conversation Design. Demystifying the elements that make up great conversations

Text Alignment Best Practises. Make your UI more effective and easy to read with text alignment

Guide: A beginner’s guide for Remote Usability Testing

Beginners: 5 tips for better UX research

💵 Here’s how to decipher which UX metric to pay attention to. A framework to help decipher what UX metrics matter

💵 When Critical Thinking goes wrong. There is a fragile line between Critical thinking and Overthinking

💵 Can using dark mode help us sleep better?

💵 What do we know wrong about using loading in Apps

💵 Beginners: Building a design system

💵 Opinion: The UX identity crisis. Shifting-T model of knowledge for renaissance technologists

💵 Case study: AR— an escape from the life of four-wall

@uxhorn_eng #accessibility #psychology #prototyping #process #uxwriting #VUI #guide #design #beginners #research #framework #darkmode #opinion #designsystem #AR #case

Have a great weekend 🏕

Design your products around mindsets, not just user personas

Meghan Wenzel has reviewed several important design scientific and research publications. Business value, user behavior, creativity in general. Thanks 2 pdigest

Giude: How to design a product page

7 Design Thinking tips when preparing your next presentation slides

Apple Child Safety Harms. How Apple is moving into mass surveillance. A walkthrough of all the risks


Fresh articles by Nielsen Norman Group:

10 usability heuristics applied to complex applications

UX-Maturity Stage 1: Absent. A company at this stage is either oblivious to UX or believes it doesn't apply to what it does

🎥 Breaking out of the content silo. Coming from a traditional content/writing background, Michelle Blake presents her case study of broadening her remit to a fuller range of user-experience issues and improved the design of her organization's website

🎥 Using Fitts's Law to make links and buttons easier to click. Fitts's Law describes how long time it takes to click a target, based on the distance to the target and its size. Use this information to make buttons and links faster to click


Opinion:

The downfall of Android tablets and how great UX can revive them

How I Would Design… Instagram!


💵 Difference between User research and UX research

💵 How to create a UX storyboard

💵 Why do people hate redesigns?

@uxhorn_eng #persona #mindset #guide #desigthinking #presentation #ethics #NNG #heuristic #maturity #process #uxwriting #law #opinion #redesign #prototyping #storyboard #terminology