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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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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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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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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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What is grounded theory? Unearthing insights in qualitative research. How to find dynamite theories in large amounts of data

Usability audit (heuristic evaluation). Getting into the user’s skin.

How engineering impacts UX and UX impacts engineering

Nacho Parietti offers three models for describing user behavior that will make an MVP more successful. They rely on the relationship of behavior and values to people. Thanks 2 pdigest

Spotify Car Thing: A Heuristic Evaluation

Graham F. Scott talks about rethinking site information architecture for Shopify developers. Thanks 2 pdigest


Fresh articles by Nielsen Norman Group:

Study Guide: Design-Pattern Guidelines

When to Use Context Methods: Field and Diary Studies

🎥 Contextual Inquiry Pitfalls

🎥 Overcoming Service Blueprinting Frustrations


Opinion:

It’s not just UX, CX, or WX… Enterprises need to focus on TX!

Is radical product thinking the future of product design


Beginners: 5 books to improve your UX-research skills

Interesting: The world map that reboots your brain. Most maps grossly misrepresent the size of countries and contribute to confusion


Design:

How to utilize user-personas to gain the maximum efficiency for your UX designs

Design for context


Case Study:

ForeverNest. Allowing first-time homebuyers to relate to other people’s experiences through the form of articles, videos, and podcasts

An easy way to donate clothes to the needy

#data #qualitative #heuristic #automotive #audit #NNG #guide #methods #video #blueprint #diary #opinion #terms #beginners #interesting #design #persona #context #case

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49 UX Metrics, Methods, and Measurement articles from 2021

Top most liked UX articles in 2021 by Adamfard

The editorial team at Inside Intercom pick out a selection of their favourite articles from the past year

Survey questions 101: over 70 survey question examples + types of surveys and FAQs

An article from UX Researchers Meta (Facebook) on Quantitative Diary Research. Thanks 2 pdigest

UX trends that will dominate in 2022

🎥 The irony of the Dunning-Kruger Effect

A small collection of good interface patterns. Thanks 2 pdigest

How to design a better UX for government digital service

Leah Acosta, Caroline Kim and Ryan Finch from Meta describe a method for quantifying concepts early on, when there is no specific visualization (and it only hurts). Thanks 2 pdigest


Opinion:

Whatsapp needs to address the most important Usability Heuristic — #1: Visibility of System Status

Gender inclusivity in design


Beginners: What are Jobs To Be Done


Process:

How to conduct product discovery process in 4 steps

UX and Management


Case Study:

E-Learning platform design idea for company service expansion

Three-week design sprint for a remote team

Add a feature (WhatsApp) by Design Thinking


💵 UX management challenges to solve in 2022 and beyond

💵 How to build better empathy maps

💵 Case Study: A faster, smarter way to create property listing descriptions

💵 How to conduct user interviews like a professional

#methods #metrics #measurement #articles #best #survey #trend #video #pattern #prototyping #GX #concept #opinion #gender #heuristic #beginners #JTBD #process #discovery #managment #case #interview #empathy #designthinking #design

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Conducting user interviews, usability testing, and surveys

User Onboarding: principles and guidelines

The importance of inclusiveness, diversity, and belonging in the workplace

A study of dignity as a principle of service design

Narrating service design to account for cultural plurality

The search for the human behind the human-centred designer

Social structures as service design materials

How to prototype your web cookie banners the right way

Completion times and preference for sliders vs. numeric scales

🇪🇸 UX Dark Patterns, el lado oscuro de la fuerza

Marketing: What is psychographics


Interesting:

How contactless technology is transforming the consumer experience

Democracy needs design thinking


Process:

Tools of the trade - what we’re using for user interviews

Design and organisational change: balancing with translation objects


Design:

Design Critique Culture. Creating a professional culture for design feedback is an essential factor for the success of a project

A designerly approach to exploring disruptions in service: Insights from employing a systems perspective


Career:

6 traits from successful researchers

Do you need PhD to become an UX researcher?

My evolution as a user experience researcher


Case study:

Telemedicine software explained: types, features & benefits

An App for tracking habits and activities

Redesign Halodoc’s booking an appointment flow

Improving the in-ride experience of a popular e-scooter sharing app

BookMyShow

Designing a social media art application

Recipeace in 30 minutes

Catwalk. Be careful and use data collected from real users


💵 Finding a UX moment in restroom (Oh yes you read it right)

💵 UX Myth: My current company’s design process is vague, will my design portfolio suck

💵 Opinion: Stop calling yourself a UX designer

💵 Design: Visual hierarchy in UX/UI design. Learn to design better visual hierarchy of interface

#methods #onboarding #accesability #SD #prototyping #darkpattern #scale #marketing #interesting #designthinking #process #design #career #case #redesign #myth #opinion #hierarchy

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Turn your research insights into actionable recommendations

Remote, open card-sorting. The power of utilizing generative methods in UX Research

User flow VS user journey: Similarities & differences of two UX design essentials

Why a discovery process is crucial

🗞 You can’t always get what you Quant. User Weekly #29

Building user-centric Blockchain experiences

UX Design — Voice UI

Process: How we built Gatsby’s user research program. User research on a small team can be tough, but building a solid foundation is everything


Beginners:

The challenge of diversity and inclusivity in UX Design

UI & UX Micro-Tips: volume twelve


Opinion:

Are wireframes dead? The shift to accessible methodologies

Breaking down the world around us: modularity


Case study:

“Let The User Decide“ A Jumia Checkout Re-design

Identifying the best design option like a scientist. A case study of using unmoderated click tests to evaluate the usability of alternate feature designs

Helping AI see clearly: A dashboard design


💵 The real impact of dark UX patterns. Dark UX is short-term thinking at the expense of reputation and brand loyalty

💵 What Is a UX Score?

💵 Did TikTok make Jakob’s Law obsolete? People spend most of their time between a handful of products right now

💵 Design: Using spacer components to drive consistency (in Figma)

#research #report #process #methods #cardsorting #terminology #discovery #weekly #VUI #accesability #beginners #tip #case #redesign #AI #dashboard #darkpattern #KPI #design

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