Articles from around the web on all things user experience, sorted chronologically.
April 28, 2020 — The skip navigation is a simple link that navigates the user to a predefined destination, which usually is the main content of the page. It is the first link in the document, so when we start navigating with the tab key, this is the first link we find.
Read this storyApril 22, 2020 — Our app designs have become soft, sweet, inoffensive. Bank interfaces use pastels, rounded corners and soft drop shadows to make mundane or unpleasant tasks more "fun.” Animojis have taken over our chats, and our productivity tools are starting to look like Animal Crossing.
Read this storyApril 21, 2020 — There is a little-noticed shift underway that is making our online experiences richer and more immediate: Jamstack, a collection of technologies to build faster and more functional websites.
Read this storyApril 20, 2020 — As designers, we always collaborate with researchers. We all know how important it is to deeply understand the problems we are solving and to uncover insights that will drive innovation with the products we are building.
Read this storyApril 9, 2020 — It’s an important time to be in voice design, but it’s not without its own challenges. Content in voice-driven interfaces can vary wildly from that of traditional websites, which might leave many of us wondering about our existing approaches to usability testing.
Read this storyApril 3, 2020 — Early this month, The Ethical Design Handbook joined the Smashing Library of essential books for designers and developers.
Read this storyMarch 31, 2020 — Proactive UX research anticipates the critical user experience decisions that a team faces. The team’s UX research effort uncovers sound findings and insights to ensure they make the best possible decisions for their users and customers.
Read this storyMarch 8, 2020 — How to maximize team participation and the value of the outcome when running a UX workshop remotely. Different platforms have different benefits and downsides, so choose depending on your circumstances and needs.
Read this storyFebruary 26, 2020 — Today’s product and design leaders often rely heavily on the word of their customers when building their product road maps; whether it’s a customer survey...
Read this storyJanuary 29, 2020 — I’ve heard the argument that if stakeholders are involved throughout the research process, then a report isn’t needed. Well, I’ve found that a good report is useful. Even with super involved stakeholders and perfectly accessible raw data, a report still helps everyone easily get their heads around research findings.
Read this storyJanuary 28, 2020 — Creating a high-quality icon family requires a thoughtful approach, a trained eye, a bit of iteration, and a lot of practice. Below, I’ll illustrate the hallmarks of quality through 7 principles and plenty of real-world examples. The goal is to tune you to the key attributes of great icon design.
Read this storyJanuary 14, 2020 — This article is not theory. This article is pure application. You won’t see anything about golden ratios. I don’t even mention color theory. Only what I’ve learned from being bad and then deliberately practicing.
Read this storyDecember 3, 2019 — To formulate a successful user experience strategy, UX design leaders need to have a deep understanding of their organization’s current UX capacity. What skills, knowledge, and experience in UX design and research do we have available in our organization?
Read this storyOctober 15, 2019 — Involving people throughout the research process is one of the most effective ways to help our teams and organisation to understand our users and how to best design for them. And when we say ‘user research is a team sport’, the ‘team’ refers to anyone whose work...
Read this storyOctober 1, 2019 — Recently, there has a been a big shift in the focus of Product teams from outputs to outcomes. In other words, some companies are starting to care a little bit less about the fact that a feature got shipped and a little bit more about whether that feature had a positive impact on user behavior and metrics.
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