The most relevant articles on the topic of UX over the past few days:
Frustrating Design Patterns: Mega-Dropdown Hover Menus
Guide: Giving a damn about accessibility. A candid and practical handbook for designers.
The UX of default settings in a product
Communicating Research for Impact. Simple strategies for researchers in tech to drive change
A better segmented control. How we embraced a growth mindset and ended up with a more robust ecosystem of selection patterns
Mobility. Strength through a range of motion. The secret to Indiehacker success.
Spotlight on Contrast: A deep dive into this design principle
WTF HCD? — Adapting the HCD methodology for inclusion
Say anything? Behind the scenes of suggested responses. How product teams can create ready-made conversation replies through content design principles
Measuring, Defining and Improving Productivity: The Design Productivity Blueprint. From Spotify designers
Three Levels of Pain Points in Customer Experience from NNG. Pain points are problems that occur at the different levels of the customer experience: interaction level, customer-journey level, or relationship level
UX Methods & Deliveravables. The most common tool, methods, processes, and deliverables that designers use throughout the digital product design process
How OnlyFans Design Hooks You Up
Newbies:
Building a Design System Library. How the author created the Lyft Product Language attributes and component libraries
How do you measure UX? It depends on how you define ‘UX’
Case Study:
Quora - Digging problems and revamping based on real users
Better in Black: Rethinking our Most Important Buttons. How changing Spotify’s most important buttons
Opinion:
It's not correct to think that he Factory is the Product
How user stories destroy designers’ creativity and how you can fix them. If you want to design disruptive products, you must abandon standard stories
The slavery supported by that device in your pocket
Opinion: The World Wide Responsive Web. The importance of building websites for every device
The Problem With Design is Designers
Experimentation & the snowball effect. What does driving social change and experimentation have in common? And what can we learn from this field to drive experimentation culture at organizations?
💵 How to Design Better Onboard Screens? A guide to creating friendly onboarding screens
💵 UX Design: Building in Delight. How to make sure that you are adding real, unexpected value; not fluff
💵 Most Essential Adobe Xd UI Kits. Hand-Picked Free Adobe Xd UI Kits
UX Horn #design #guide #accessibility #settings #strategy #research #mobile #designsystem #HCD #process #prototype #measure #newbie #case #opinion #analysis #guide #onboarding #UIKit
Have a great weekend✨
Frustrating Design Patterns: Mega-Dropdown Hover Menus
Guide: Giving a damn about accessibility. A candid and practical handbook for designers.
The UX of default settings in a product
Communicating Research for Impact. Simple strategies for researchers in tech to drive change
A better segmented control. How we embraced a growth mindset and ended up with a more robust ecosystem of selection patterns
Mobility. Strength through a range of motion. The secret to Indiehacker success.
Spotlight on Contrast: A deep dive into this design principle
WTF HCD? — Adapting the HCD methodology for inclusion
Say anything? Behind the scenes of suggested responses. How product teams can create ready-made conversation replies through content design principles
Measuring, Defining and Improving Productivity: The Design Productivity Blueprint. From Spotify designers
Three Levels of Pain Points in Customer Experience from NNG. Pain points are problems that occur at the different levels of the customer experience: interaction level, customer-journey level, or relationship level
UX Methods & Deliveravables. The most common tool, methods, processes, and deliverables that designers use throughout the digital product design process
How OnlyFans Design Hooks You Up
Newbies:
Building a Design System Library. How the author created the Lyft Product Language attributes and component libraries
How do you measure UX? It depends on how you define ‘UX’
Case Study:
Quora - Digging problems and revamping based on real users
Better in Black: Rethinking our Most Important Buttons. How changing Spotify’s most important buttons
Opinion:
It's not correct to think that he Factory is the Product
How user stories destroy designers’ creativity and how you can fix them. If you want to design disruptive products, you must abandon standard stories
The slavery supported by that device in your pocket
Opinion: The World Wide Responsive Web. The importance of building websites for every device
The Problem With Design is Designers
Experimentation & the snowball effect. What does driving social change and experimentation have in common? And what can we learn from this field to drive experimentation culture at organizations?
💵 How to Design Better Onboard Screens? A guide to creating friendly onboarding screens
💵 UX Design: Building in Delight. How to make sure that you are adding real, unexpected value; not fluff
💵 Most Essential Adobe Xd UI Kits. Hand-Picked Free Adobe Xd UI Kits
UX Horn #design #guide #accessibility #settings #strategy #research #mobile #designsystem #HCD #process #prototype #measure #newbie #case #opinion #analysis #guide #onboarding #UIKit
Have a great weekend✨
Smashing Magazine
User-Friendly Mega-Dropdowns: When Hover Menus Fail — Smashing Magazine
With such a complex multi-level navigation, showing the breadth of options requires quite a bit of space. Think of large eCommerce retailers and large corporate sites, catering to many audiences and having plenty of entry points. Do we need mega-dropdown…
Assumptions about users to banish from your brain forever
How to get buy-in for inclusive user experience research
Top online collaboration tools for remote UX Work
How does your digital product perform when users get angry?
Guide:
A guide and top 7 useful services for prototyping
The best feedback form design in web apps with examples
Analysis:
Selling an NFT on OpenSea
Making sense of TV remote icons
Opinion:
It’s not your fault you suck at video games. A UX perspective on the gaming industry
Tug of War: Balancing what’s best for the user vs. business
Case Study: How to humanize a mobile banking super app
💵 To moderate user research debriefs effectively, understand who your notetakers are. Understanding the difference between 3 types of notetakers
💵 How to understand problems better. On key analytical problem solving skills, systems thinking, how you can ask better questions, and communicating your decision frameworks
💵 How to design products that deliver real value. An introduction to fair value exchange in product design
💵 Beginners: 11 common UX mistakes that every designer should know
💵 Opinion: The Death of UX/UI Designers. It’s not about the industry
@uxhorn_eng #bias #cognitive #inclusive #buyin #tools #process #pattern #guide #prototyping #feedback #analysis #opinion #gamification #case #notetaker #framework #beginners #design
Have a great weekend 🏕
How to get buy-in for inclusive user experience research
Top online collaboration tools for remote UX Work
How does your digital product perform when users get angry?
Guide:
A guide and top 7 useful services for prototyping
The best feedback form design in web apps with examples
Analysis:
Selling an NFT on OpenSea
Making sense of TV remote icons
Opinion:
It’s not your fault you suck at video games. A UX perspective on the gaming industry
Tug of War: Balancing what’s best for the user vs. business
Case Study: How to humanize a mobile banking super app
💵 To moderate user research debriefs effectively, understand who your notetakers are. Understanding the difference between 3 types of notetakers
💵 How to understand problems better. On key analytical problem solving skills, systems thinking, how you can ask better questions, and communicating your decision frameworks
💵 How to design products that deliver real value. An introduction to fair value exchange in product design
💵 Beginners: 11 common UX mistakes that every designer should know
💵 Opinion: The Death of UX/UI Designers. It’s not about the industry
@uxhorn_eng #bias #cognitive #inclusive #buyin #tools #process #pattern #guide #prototyping #feedback #analysis #opinion #gamification #case #notetaker #framework #beginners #design
Have a great weekend 🏕
Medium
Assumptions About Users to Banish from Your Brain Forever
You can’t learn a thing about users when you’re operating under your own assumptions.
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?
@uxhorn_eng #NNG #guide #desigthinking #accessibility #ethics #insights #prototyping #discovery #methods #analysis #opinion #interesting
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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?
@uxhorn_eng #NNG #guide #desigthinking #accessibility #ethics #insights #prototyping #discovery #methods #analysis #opinion #interesting
We have comments now :)
Medium
Understanding contrast ratio and accessibility
Contrast is the ratio of the luminance (perceived brightness of a colour) of the brightest to the darkest colour that the system can…
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
@uxhorn_eng
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
@uxhorn_eng
Uxmatters
Rows and Columns, Part 1: Jump-starting Analysis Using Spreadsheets :: UXmatters
Web magazine about user experience matters, providing insights and inspiration for the user experience community
17 tools that will streamline your UX Research
UX Research — the process
Web content accessibility and why it matters
Design Retrospectives
Using 6 Google analytics features to improve User Experience and website metrics
The challenges of freelance UX writing
Beginners:
Usability testing: what, why, and the takeaways
An introduction to UX Writing
💵 How to interview customers to validate your idea
💵 Major UX Research Methods
💵 Democratizing research at Miro
💵 An ode to oddly satisfying product experiences
💵 Case study: The UX of a big city marathon. How the organizers of the Chicago Marathon successfully ferried pedestrians across the course during the race
#tools #methods #process #accessibility #analysis #uxwriting #retrospective #beginners #case
@uxhorn_eng
UX Research — the process
Web content accessibility and why it matters
Design Retrospectives
Using 6 Google analytics features to improve User Experience and website metrics
The challenges of freelance UX writing
Beginners:
Usability testing: what, why, and the takeaways
An introduction to UX Writing
💵 How to interview customers to validate your idea
💵 Major UX Research Methods
💵 Democratizing research at Miro
💵 An ode to oddly satisfying product experiences
💵 Case study: The UX of a big city marathon. How the organizers of the Chicago Marathon successfully ferried pedestrians across the course during the race
#tools #methods #process #accessibility #analysis #uxwriting #retrospective #beginners #case
@uxhorn_eng
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17 Tools That Will Streamline Your UX Research - UX Tools
Explore a curated list of 17 tools designed to enhance your UX research process, from participant recruitment to data analysis.