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2021-09-03 12:14:10 What User Experience is NOT

Facebook's Yuling an provides tips for scripting remote unmoderated User Research. Thanks 2 Pdigest

4 considerations when designing a sitemap

Researching the right thing versus researching the thing right

The headcount hustle: How to grow your UX writing team

The 9 best podcasts to make you more creative

Designing hybrid presentations with data visualisation in augmented reality

From a colourblind designer to the world: Please stop using red and green together

Case Study: Website redesign for a Creative design agency

User experience and security: a conundrum

Replace your complex bar chart with a dot plot to make it better understood

UX word of the day: repetition effect. Repetition Effect| noun| rep-i-ti-shun • iff-ect

Does terminology affect how we perceive and evaluate intelligent systems

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2021-09-01 14:14:00 ​Never underestimate the importance of kerning

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2021-09-01 10:49:25 Making research insights actionable with a RACI matrix

The disability and accessibility data desert is growing bigger every day

Prototyping tools in 2021: are they meeting our needs

Rethinking User Personas


Opinion:

Will advertising succumb to UX

The hidden impact of UX design on climate change

The future of human-centered design education


Interesting: Inside Don Norman’s Herculean quest to fix design education

Design handoff: What engineers really want to see

A comprehensive list of human-computer interactions. A review of the opportunities with humans, computers, and software

Best practices for infinite scrolling

How to optimize button microcopy. 7 suggestions with examples

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2021-08-30 12:57:33 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

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2021-08-27 11:28:57 Fast and cheap ways to find UX Research participants

Three fundamental tips to enhance your team’s user research insights

Heuristic Evaluation: The UX First Aid Kit for Your Product

Megan Blocker - A Selectively Scrappy Approach to ResearchOps

Survey Practice discusses visualizing respondents' responses to open-ended questions. The authors show graphs. Thanks 2 Sowhater

Fabiola Einhorn of athenahealth provides best practices for remote healthcare interfaces. They are based on her many years of practice and numerous UX studies. Thanks 2 pdigest 4 link

Using objectives and key results to inform UX design

Designing for emotional delight

Design edge cases and where to find them

Beginners: How to conduct consumer research surveys? Roadmap, Tips, and Best Practices

Interesting: 10,000 women die in car crashes each year because of bad design

Design polls on social media are not working

User Research crash course for Product Managers

Opinion: Fast AI isn’t always good UX. When “don’t make me think” doesn’t apply

How to make digital & physical interaction feel connected

Product Archaeology in UX: What it is, why it matters & how to do it

Choose Correct Menu Icon for your Navigation. Explaining all different types of menu icons & their usage

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2021-08-25 12:22:27 Online UX research: Which skills should be developed

How to measure design impact

Book Review: Escaping the Build Trap

Teaching an old dog new tricks: revamping legacy web products

Balancing practice and theory in design

How product managers leverage data to boost conversions

UX in the age of SaaS

Case Study: Removing the friction from insurance shopping. Five strategies to simplify online quotes and other complex user flows

Opinion: Overlaps between user experience and other disciplines — a benefit, not a problem

Typography in Design Systems

The perfect settings design for a mobile app: What makes an app successful

The attention span myth. No, the average human attention span is not 1 second less than that of the goldfish

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2021-08-23 09:56:57 Understanding contrast ratio and accessibility

A guide to sharing insights in ways that stick

Ethics in designing habit-forming products. Two methods to evaluate our motives when purposefully designing habit-forming products

How to build collaborative human-robot interfaces. The challenge of designing affordances on ever-evolving robots


Fresh articles by Nielsen Norman Group:

Design Thinking: Study Guide. Collection of links to NNG articles and videos to learn about design thinking

Problem Statements in UX Discovery

How to fit big tables on small screens

Identify and document your UX methods


Analysis: The Peloton experience. An in-depth analysis on six human factor principles and laws of UX and how they helped shape the existing Peloton interface into what it is today

Opinion: The real reason you’re not more productive at work? It’s not boredom—it’s bad UX

Interesting: Arun Venkatesan describes the career history of industrial designer Richard Sapper, who also influenced computers (the red button on the IBM / Lenovo ThinkPad is his idea). He is from the same German constellation as Dieter Rams, but used different approaches. Thanks 2 pdigest

Opinion: Why Does stress have a beneficial effect?

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2021-08-20 15:00:52 Assumptions about users to banish from your brain forever

How to get buy-in for inclusive user experience research

Top online collaboration tools for remote UX Work

How does your digital product perform when users get angry?


Guide:

A guide and top 7 useful services for prototyping

The best feedback form design in web apps with examples


Analysis:

Selling an NFT on OpenSea

Making sense of TV remote icons


Opinion:

It’s not your fault you suck at video games. A UX perspective on the gaming industry

Tug of War: Balancing what’s best for the user vs. business


Case Study: How to humanize a mobile banking super app

To moderate user research debriefs effectively, understand who your notetakers are. Understanding the difference between 3 types of notetakers

How to understand problems better. On key analytical problem solving skills, systems thinking, how you can ask better questions, and communicating your decision frameworks

How to design products that deliver real value. An introduction to fair value exchange in product design

Beginners: 11 common UX mistakes that every designer should know

Opinion: The Death of UX/UI Designers. It’s not about the industry

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2021-08-18 13:54:29 What is user experience mapping. An overview of UX mapping techniques in the design process

Five ways to create a research culture at your organization

7 best UX design books to brush up on your experience design knowledge

Designing with Data

Notion Tips: How to organize your design sprints


Opinion:

Let’s do human-inspired design, not human-centred design

The User is a problematic idea. But so is the Human


Case Study:

Redesigning the Most Popular Cooking Site

Redesigning a daily goods delivery platform in Indonesia


Creating personas with secondary data

15 easy tips that helps you in designing for Accessibility

The web error messages that get it seriously wrong

How to Tell a Systems-Level Story. Capturing progress, complexity, characters, and relationships

Opinion: Can UX promote sustainability?

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2021-08-16 12:02:19 Design your products around mindsets, not just user personas

Meghan Wenzel has reviewed several important design scientific and research publications. Business value, user behavior, creativity in general. Thanks 2 pdigest

Giude: How to design a product page

7 Design Thinking tips when preparing your next presentation slides

Apple Child Safety Harms. How Apple is moving into mass surveillance. A walkthrough of all the risks


Fresh articles by Nielsen Norman Group:

10 usability heuristics applied to complex applications

UX-Maturity Stage 1: Absent. A company at this stage is either oblivious to UX or believes it doesn't apply to what it does

Breaking out of the content silo. Coming from a traditional content/writing background, Michelle Blake presents her case study of broadening her remit to a fuller range of user-experience issues and improved the design of her organization's website

Using Fitts's Law to make links and buttons easier to click. Fitts's Law describes how long time it takes to click a target, based on the distance to the target and its size. Use this information to make buttons and links faster to click


Opinion:

The downfall of Android tablets and how great UX can revive them

How I Would Design… Instagram!


Difference between User research and UX research

How to create a UX storyboard

Why do people hate redesigns?

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