Designing for Touch :: UXmatters
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Creating Low-Fidelity or High-Fidelity Prototypes, Part 2 :: UXmatters
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W3Schools.com
W3Schools offers free online tutorials, references and exercises in all the major languages of the web. Covering popular subjects like HTML, CSS, JavaScript, Python, SQL, Java, and many, many more.
How to Create a Wireframe? Step-by-Step Guide + Examples
Read about creating a wireframe for digital products. Learn the exact stepsand see the benefits of starting design with wireframing.
Animation for Attention and Comprehension
Motion is a powerful tool to attract users’ attention. When designing an animation consider its goal, its frequency of occurrence, and its mechanics.
Creepiness–Convenience Tradeoff
As people consider whether to use the new "creepy" technologies, they do a type of cost-benefit analysis weighing the loss of privacy against the benefits they will receive in return.
Change Blindness in UX: Definition
Significant changes in a web page can remain unnoticed when they lack strong cues, due to the limitations of human attention.
Design Psychology and the Neuroscience of Awesome UX | Toptal®
Human cognition is complex, and many factors play into instant impressions. Design psychology is coming to the forefront as more and more companies are using neuroscience to design better user experiences. Great user experience design isn’t magic—it’s science.
Three Key SERP Features: Featured Snippets, People Also Ask, and Knowledge Panels
These elements of search-engine results pages can direct attention, help people reformulate their queries, and influence users’ information needs.
The Dangers of Overpersonalization
Too much personalization leads to homogeneous experiences for users and can generate content fatigue and lack of diversity.
What You Need to Know About Negotiating Design Ideas with Skeptical Customers
A fully interactive prototype created in UXPin can reduce confusion on expectations as both you and the customer are visualizing the same end product.
The Critical Incident Technique in UX
The CIT is a research method for systematically obtaining recalled observations of significant events or behaviors from people who have first-hand experience.
Similarity Principle in Visual Design
Design elements that appear similar in some way — sharing the same color, shape, or size — are perceived as related, while elements that appear dissimilar are perceived as belonging to separate groups.
Visual Design: Glossary
Use this glossary to quickly clarify key terms and concepts related to visual design.
Crafting a UX Portfolio :: UXmatters
Web magazine about user experience matters, providing insights and inspiration for the user experience community
Creating Low-Fidelity or High-Fidelity Prototypes, Part 1 :: UXmatters
Web magazine about user experience matters, providing insights and inspiration for the user experience community
UX Design — Smashing Magazine
User Experience (UX) Design is the process of creating experiences that aren't just attractive to look at, but that also work well for our users. In this guide we round up some of the articles on Smashing that can help you to create beautiful sites and applications that also…
8 Design Guidelines for Complex Applications
Despite great diversity in the workflows and end users supported by complex applications, these 8 design guidelines are generally applicable.
7 Ways to Analyze a Customer-Journey Map
Evaluate your journey map to identify low and high points, failures to set expectations, unnecessary or too long steps, channel transitions, and moments of truth. Use this information to find opportunities for improving the journey.
How to Leverage Thematic Analysis for Better UX | Toptal®
Thematic analysis, an approach used to analyze qualitative data, is central to credible research and can be used to improve UX design by uncovering user needs, motivations, and behaviors. #Research #Product #Design #UX #Web #B2B
The Role Of Storyboarding In UX Design — Smashing Magazine
UX designers use a lot of different research techniques, such as interviews and workshops. They summarize research findings into user stories and user flows and communicate their thinking and solutions to the teams. But somewhere in all of this, there are real people for whom…
Vanity Metrics: Add Context to Add Meaning
Tracked analytics metrics should reflect change in the user experience. Vanity metrics appear impressive, but their fluctuations are not actionable.
UI Animation – All You Need to Know and Examples
Are you using UI animation to make your products exciting and accessible? Draw inspiration from these four UI animations.
The Role of Animation and Motion in UX
Animation in UX must be unobtrusive, brief, and subtle. Use it for feedback, state-change and navigation metaphors, and to enhance signifiers.
UI Design Best Practices for Better Scannability | Toptal®
Sixty percent of first-time visitors leave a website in less than fifteen seconds. Yet, there is an often overlooked usability factor that improves visitor retention—scannability. These UI design tips for using research, science, and strategy to layout content help convert…
Front-End Performance Checklist 2021 (PDF, Apple Pages, MS Word) — Smashing Magazine
Let’s make 2021... fast! An annual front-end performance checklist, with everything you need to know to create fast experiences on the web today, from metrics to tooling and CSS/JavaScript techniques.
Using Cognitive Psychology in UX Design: What to Know - noupe
Even if a website is spotless from the UI viewpoint, it could still deliver poor user experiences. Apart from their technical knowledge, UX developers
Sympathy vs. Empathy in UX
The majority of UX professionals practice sympathy instead of empathy for their users.
Web Layout Best Practices – 12 Timeless UI Patterns | Toptal®
What makes a web UI pattern timeless? Adherence to web layout best practices that result in a combination of user-friendliness and adaptability to changing trends and technology. #design #ui #design #ux #web #product
The Paradox of Intelligent Assistants: Poor Usability, High Adoption
Frequent users of Siri, Alexa, and Google Assistant report attempting low-complexity tasks such as simple fact retrievals, weather forecast, navigation, playing music, setting timers.
Benchmarking UX: Tracking Metrics
Quantitatively evaluate a product or service’s user experience by using metrics to gauge its relative performance against a meaningful standard.
Good UX: What I Learned While Working in Restaurants
Good UX has great customer service at its base. Restaurants provide many instructive examples for designers.
User-Experience Quiz 2023
Test your usability knowledge by taking our quiz. All questions and answers are based on articles that we published last year.
The Lawn Mower Eyetracking Pattern for Scanning Comparison Tables
Users are likely to methodically scan comparison tables row by row, from right to left and back again.
The 6 UX Methods That Proved to Be Effective in Driving Results
Experimenting with creative UX methods. Creativity plays an important role, but your designs must drive results to make products successful.
In Defense of Post-its
Sticky notes strengthen team dynamics and represent an egalitarian, concise means for expressing ideas in UX design projects.
Learnability in UX Design
Building a learnable website is much tougher than it sounds.One thinks one’s design is clear and comprehensible; however, a design that might be obvious for you, might be perceived totally different by a user with a different set of experiences. Therefore, the goal is to design…
Navigating Ambiguity :: UXmatters
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Book Review: The Jobs To Be Done Playbook :: UXmatters
Web magazine about user experience matters, providing insights and inspiration for the user experience community
Dot Voting: A Simple Decision-Making and Prioritizing Technique in UX
By placing colored dots, participants in UX workshops, activities, or collaborative sessions individually vote on the importance of design ideas, features, usability findings, and anything else that requires prioritization.
Journey Mapping 101
A journey map is a visualization of the process that a person goes through in order to accomplish a goal.
Why You Only Need to Test with 5 Users
Elaborate usability tests are a waste of resources. The best results come from testing no more than 5 users and running as many small tests as you can afford.
How To Deliver A Successful UX Project In The Healthcare Sector — Smashing Magazine
UX researchers can learn a lot from hospital patients through empathetic interviews — but that alone is not enough. Instead, you need to pay particular attention to how your users’ clinical context influences their perceptions, trust, and the care they receive. If you are a UX…
UX Guidelines for Ecommerce Homepages, Category Pages, and Product Listing Pages
Streamline users’ path to products by providing clear, differentiating product information at all levels — from the homepage to product listing pages.
3 Persona Types: Lightweight, Qualitative, and Statistical
For most teams, approaching persona creation qualitatively is the right balance of effort vs. value, but very large or very small organizations might benefit from statistical or lightweight approaches, respectively.
Better Link Labels: 4Ss for Encouraging Clicks
Specific link text sets sincere expectations and fulfills them, and is substantial enough to stand alone while remaining succinct.
Cognitive Mapping in User Research
In cognitive mapping sessions, users are asked to produce a visual representation of their mental models. Cognitive mapping guides conversation and acts as a facilitation aid.
‘Our Users Are Everyone’: Designing Mass-Market Products for Large User Audiences
Even if your target demographics are very broad, you should still identify specific groups of users within that audience to use for UX research and design.
Artificial Intelligence, Supervised Learning, and User Experience :: UXmatters
Web magazine about user experience matters, providing insights and inspiration for the user experience community
Top books, movies, and series recommended by designers in 2019
Here’s a list of great books, movies, and tv series that designers liked in 2019. It’s probably not the most objective, but surely very interesting.