The most relevant articles on the topic of UX over the past days:
Mind the gap — important UX research skills that are absent from bootcamps
Designers and their wireframe habits. The result of survey 137 designers
Seven things I learnt scaling research (and design) at Monzo bank. Spoiler: leadership support, peer and team involvement, documentation and somewhat less obvious
Opinion:
Your CX and UX Metrics Are Myopic
Beware the Cut ‘n’ Paste Persona
Stop using Agile as a design process
Prototypes 101: Set yourself up for iteration (a failure story)
Newbies: What Is Rapid Prototyping & Why Use It? (+ 5 Best Tools)
A guide to choosing effective screen sizes when designing for Android. 12 tweets
Event: You already started to practice DesignOps in your organization but struggling to formulate the DesignOps role? 27 of may - Meetup where will speak about Skill Matrix for DesignOps and Career Ladders!
💵 Designing effective search experiences. About how people do there search
💵 5 Best Design Podcasts
💵 UI Changes in the latest Android 12 from Google I/O 2021!
💵Opinion: What is Circular Design?
UXHorn #skills #habits #design #process #agile #opinion #persona #prototype #newbie #event #podcast #android #search #patterns
Mind the gap — important UX research skills that are absent from bootcamps
Designers and their wireframe habits. The result of survey 137 designers
Seven things I learnt scaling research (and design) at Monzo bank. Spoiler: leadership support, peer and team involvement, documentation and somewhat less obvious
Opinion:
Your CX and UX Metrics Are Myopic
Beware the Cut ‘n’ Paste Persona
Stop using Agile as a design process
Prototypes 101: Set yourself up for iteration (a failure story)
Newbies: What Is Rapid Prototyping & Why Use It? (+ 5 Best Tools)
A guide to choosing effective screen sizes when designing for Android. 12 tweets
Event: You already started to practice DesignOps in your organization but struggling to formulate the DesignOps role? 27 of may - Meetup where will speak about Skill Matrix for DesignOps and Career Ladders!
💵 Designing effective search experiences. About how people do there search
💵 5 Best Design Podcasts
💵 UI Changes in the latest Android 12 from Google I/O 2021!
💵Opinion: What is Circular Design?
UXHorn #skills #habits #design #process #agile #opinion #persona #prototype #newbie #event #podcast #android #search #patterns
Medium
Mind the gap — important UX research skills that are absent from bootcamps
I have been a mentor at a UX bootcamp since early 2018. While it has been fabulous to see students acquire hard skills, such as…
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…