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

4 tips to nail your UX research timelines

Color psychology and its best practices in design

Running a Product Design Audit

Opinion: Giving a damn about accessibility. A candid and practical handbook for designers

How biases affect designers and how to overcome them

Assumptions Are Killing Your User Research

How To Improve Registration & Sign In Process

A new chapter in Apple Style Guide – Writing Inclusively "The people who use Apple products reflect the diversity of the world at large. This chapter provides guidelines and tips for how you can write consciously to include everyone" Thanks 2 UX News New UX

Managing Consequences of Design. About ethics in design

Are Sliders More Sensitive than Numeric Rating Scales


Fresh articles by Nielsen Norman Group:

Collecting Metrics During Qualitative Studies

🎥 Low-Code Platforms and User Experience. Low-code platforms and other end-user programming or simplified implementation don't remove the need for task analysis and other deeper UX work and thus don't guarantee great usability. But they can free up budget for better UX work.

The 6 Levels of UX Maturity. That model has 6 stages that cover processes, design, research, leadership support, and longevity of UX

🎥 Designing Complex Applications: A Framework. 5 different sources of UX complexity help explain and analyze the special design issues in complex applications.

5 Common Mistakes During Facilitation of User Interviews


💵 How do people read? Understand to improve your design.

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Long chill/working week everyone 🚀
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 🚀
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 🏕
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

@uxhorn_eng #gamification #design #research #process #NNG #quantitative #guide #ROI #blueprint #case #opinion #economics #skeuomorphic #interesting #links #animation #report #usability #AB #accessibility #framework
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

@uxhorn_eng
Building a framework for prioritizing user research

The process of prioritizing a feature improvement based on the user research results. After creating the affinity map, the next step is to create an action plan and prioritize feedback

How user research, storyboarding and A/B split testing informed the Design Process

Terms: UX vs. CX

The role of technical writing in creating a positive User Experience

28 favorite customer feedback questions in Hotjar

Why fidelity matters

Accessibility 101: Designing for Everyone

Opinion: User type needs


Fresh articles by Nielsen Norman Group:

Growing in your UX career: Study Guide

UX-Maturity stage 4: Structured

🎥 Ethnography in UX

🎥 Reciprocation: Why login walls aren’t always “Better"


Сase study:

For a social messaging app

Re-thinking a traveling app, for a better user experience

Craft a user-centered product

WhatsApp Tabs

SLO Transit Redesign

Fix My Mess. Wellness app

Design: How I use automation to quickly transfer designs from Figma to Webflow (Part 1)


💵 Promoting ethics through design. And rethink the user experience of society

#framework #prioritization #process #terms #writing #feedback #accessibility #prototyping #opinion #needs #NNG #career #maturity #methods #ethnography #case #webflow #figma #ethical

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