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2021-08-13 15:57:49 How to test for accessibility with users at every design stage

Twitter’s new font and Last of Us 2: an accessibility lesson to be learned

Lesser-known psychological principles that can improve your conversion rate. How to get deeper into the minds of your users in order to optimise your experience for conversion

Influencing UX stakeholder values: 6 ways to convey the significance of user research

6 reasons why UX and documentation teams are stronger together

What’s the Difference Between Conversation UI and Conversation Design. Demystifying the elements that make up great conversations

Text Alignment Best Practises. Make your UI more effective and easy to read with text alignment

Guide: A beginner’s guide for Remote Usability Testing

Beginners: 5 tips for better UX research

Here’s how to decipher which UX metric to pay attention to. A framework to help decipher what UX metrics matter

When Critical Thinking goes wrong. There is a fragile line between Critical thinking and Overthinking

Can using dark mode help us sleep better?

What do we know wrong about using loading in Apps

Beginners: Building a design system

Opinion: The UX identity crisis. Shifting-T model of knowledge for renaissance technologists

Case study: AR— an escape from the life of four-wall

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2021-08-11 13:05:03 Trauma-informed design research. Design practice that helps not harms

User-centered design system resources. How to go beyond asset libraries and build systems for people

Case study: Redesigning the user experience of the Thrillophilia app


Opinion:

Should you have a UX Research portfolio?

Why WhatsApp payment isn’t mainstream yet

What should vaccination credentials look like?

How the alt-rock music scene can help us with UX design


Interesting: Pilot error and the shape of things to come. How Alphonse Chapanis, a young psychologist, saved the lives of WWII pilots through clever design

10 Accessibility Best Practices. Improve your site’s accessibility score with these 10 practices

Interface design patterns & principles more ubiquitous than you think

@uxhonr_eng #design #accessibility #case #designsystem #prototyping #opinion #portfolio #interesting #psychology #pattern #principle

It’s wednesday again Open / Comment

2021-08-09 15:15:21 Should UX and Product Management merge?

How to avoid being intimidated by quantitative UX metrics

Why accessibility in design should never be an afterthought


Fresh articles from NN Group:

Study Guide: Qualitative Usability Testing

UX vs. Service Design. User experience is focused on what the end user encounters, whereas service design is focused on how that user experience is internally created

Better Charts for Analytics & Quantitative UX Data

Partner with Other Research Teams in Your Organization


Interesting: The UX of electronic synthesizers, unicode arrows, design leadership

Review: FIFA 21 vs. FIFA 11

How to design better destructive action modals

Creating a product vision. A mind map with key steps & deliverables

The most comprehensive books you should read about design

Design Systems: How to create a scalable typography stack

@uxhorn_eng #opinion #terminology #accessibility #metrics #qualitatve #SD #NNG #guide #quantitative #interesting #review #prototyping #product #designsystem #book #design Open / Comment

2021-08-06 11:43:30 Don’t (only) listen to users. Why listening is just not enough and observation is so important

Balancing UX design and conversion-rate optimization

Best practices for pricing table design

Mitigating user errors

A UX Critique of Outer Wilds. Part 1 and 2


Opinion:

Important lessons I learned in my first year as a User Researcher

Watching the Olympics has been a UX nightmare


Interesting:

How Bob Moog brought usability heuristics to the electronic synthesizer

Occam’s razor: Applying philosophy in design


Beginners:

What is content design and why does it matter?

How to find the top usability problems on your app or website, even if you don’t have a UX designer on your team


Case Study: Turn-key user management for no-code API portals

The impact of the Covid-19 pandemic on UX research practice

Peak–End Rule Of UX

@uxhorn_eng #process #prototyping #table #practices #gamification #critique #opinion #beginners #case

Have a great weekend Open / Comment

2021-08-04 11:23:10 The most relevant articles on the topic of UX over the past few days:

Getting the most out of surveys

What a bunch of 1st graders taught about UX

The UX of Music. Exploring the similarities between my two careers

How to calculate your word of mouth coefficient

Redesigning an entire icon system

Habits to stay grounded in a remote world

Lorem Ipsum will destroy your design. And why designers can do with flexing their content muscles a bit

UX and net promoter benchmarks of mass merchant websites

Love robots + UI: The role of AI in the design industry

Prioritizing problems to inform product design


Guide:

Ethical UX-design

UI design principles


Beginners:

Evaluation methods for interaction design. An introduction to different techniques in design evaluation

Data sampling collection types and when to use them


Opinion:

Accessible design from the get-go - just about 20% of designer effort can solve up to 80% of accessibility challenges for digital interfaces

Where is user experience heading?


Case Study: Airtrack - an airline app that delivers the easiest booking experience

Eye-Tracking in usability testing. How valuable is this technique for a UX practitioner

Review: A UX researcher’s review of the Apple Watch


@uxhorn_eng #survey #music #accessibility #uxwriting #redesign #design #product #guide #ethical #beginners #opinion #case #review #eyetracking

It’s wednesday again Open / Comment

2021-08-02 13:01:38 The most relevant articles on the topic of UX over the past weekend!


Fresh articles by Nielsen Norman Group:

Data is more than numbers: Why qualitative data isn’t just opinions

Overlay Overload: Competing popups are an increasing menace

3 types of onboarding new users

UX Roadmaps 101. A roadmap is a strategic plan for future user-experience work and user problems to be solved immediately vs. next vs. in the far future


How to build the products that people love

Notable notes: Make your user research easier through efficient note-taking

UX analysis: Apple Music vs. Spotify’s artist page

Desktop vs Mobile design: The only RULE you must know

Quick introduction to Web-monetization


From the product design digest:

Maria Meireles breaks down "Baba is You" using Nielsen's interface heuristics

Atlassian's Kate Towsey gives tips on finding additional bids for the ResearchOps team. How to justify them and in what situations they are generally needed. These are generally good tips for developing any competency in a company.

Creative Navy talks about a quick way to find basic UI issues. This is a combination of researching user reviews, communicating with support and sales, and short interviews with users. It allows you to remove the top layer of problems and get a quick return for the product.

Vivienne Kay talks about Shopify's approach with short video presentations of design and research. These are videos for 5-10 minutes in which the author talks about the current stage and the results of the work. They work great in a remote format.

UK branding agency Dixon Baxi has released a series of videos on how it works and the process. They work at the intersection of classic and digital branding - for example, they made video services Hulu and Pluto, fintech Capital One, and Audible.

Rosenfeld Media has released Caroline Jarrett's Surveys That Work book on conducting surveys. Excerpt from Chapter # 1

Graeme Fulton notes that in recent years the genre of simple tips for designers has grown to unprecedented proportions. In most cases, this is, unfortunately, poor quality advice.


Beginners: Games User Research Methods - an introduction for new researchers


Case Study:

Redesign Homepage Warga Bantu Warga

Redesigning a COVID-19 tracking app for the elderly user


Implicit measures in UX: Can we measure our users’ unconscious motives

How to design and style better links. Usable hyperlinks are the signs of a good user experience

Think-aloud testing for usability: how to get more out of your data

What are the Don’ts and Do’s when creating accessible designs?

Winging a customer journey map even without an actual product in hand

@uxhorn_eng #NNG #qualitatve #popup #prototyping #strategy #digest #heuristic #beginners #redesign #case #book #tips #usability #CJM #accessibility

Productive week and take care of yourself Open / Comment

2021-07-30 11:41:20 The most interesting articles on the topic of UX over the past few days:

The Coming CX/UX Correction and Shift

The UX of notifications - how to master the art of interrupting

Leveraging Craigslist for UX Research. Craigslist can be a lean and effective tool for rapidly recruiting thousands of research participants on the cheap

Mobile eCommerce essentials: search results page

UI patterns: design solutions to common problems

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

Shortly about empathy map

Are UI Tips the New Clickbait for Designers. Tools, articles and resources to keep you going

10 simple tips to improve your UX writing

How to handoff UI Design to Dev

Case Study: Empowering a community-driven delivery application

Interesting: Few details about the Windows 95 development process. Thx 2 UX News New UX

Beating the Hawthorne Effect

Responsible innovation: A method to address inequity in Design Thinking

From Marketing to UX: Switching careers with no experience

Personas. A step-by-step guide to getting the most out of persona development beyond the usual template, with a concrete example

Highlights from Google’s “Foundations of UX Design” course

Psychological principles in product design — a closer look at Duolingo

@uxhorn_eng #terminology #notification #prototyping #ecommerce #recruiting #pattern #design #empathymap #uxwriting #guide #tips #process #case #interesting #hawthrone #bias #desigthinking #marketing #persona #psychology

See u next week! Open / Comment

2021-07-29 09:12:00 Several interesting design articles:

The full guide to UI design

UI & UX micro-tips: volume eight

Good product designers / bad product designers

Prototyping: Growing (and Shrinking) Pains. How to fix a broken spacing system

Experience: "5 bitter design manager’s lessons I wish I had learned earlier". From handling user interfaces to handling people

Why designers are not users in 2 Minutes

5 practices that will help you become a senior designer

@uxhorn_eng #digest #design #prototyping #tips #experience #guide Open / Comment

2021-07-28 14:53:54 The most relevant articles on the topic of UX over the past few days:

Bias in UX research. Personal notes from Google UX professional certificate

A Closer look at сart abandonment

The User research persona watch list

The Current state of homepage UX – 8 common pitfalls

Meeting the User. Designers models are likely more sophisticated than those of most users

UX migration strategy for legacy applications

Campbell’s Law and the NPS (Net Promoter Score)

Ephemeral Tree: UX design for social connectedness

Futures, features and fixes — Setting your product team up for success

Experience: 7 powerful lessons I learned in design-consulting

Beginners: What you need to pay attention to in your first usability test

Opinion: What is User Experience 2.0?

How To Optimize UX Research with Beusable

Laws of UX learned from Spotify, YouTube, Medium, Twitter, Pinterest, Netflix, Uber, Instagram, etc. Let’s See What UX laws big apps follow for better designing

How to Choose a UX Conference that fits you

@uxhorn_eng #bias #research #cart #persona #tips #strategy #redesign #social #process #experience #beginners #opinion #law #conference

It’s wednesday again Open / Comment

2021-07-26 11:43:45 The most relevant articles on the topic of UX over the past weekend:

In defense of reusing existing design patterns. Leveraging affordances, signifiers, and standard interaction patterns for intuitive design

UX lessons by video game designers. The power of autonomy and goal-driven products

Digital experience design for learning disability

4 Ways to expand the impact of UX research across an organization

A delightful product. Illustrations add value for the user


Fresh articles by Nielsen Norman Group:

Four Factors in UX Maturity - strategy, culture, process, and outcomes

How Many Participants for Quantitative Usability Studies: A summary of sample-size recommendations

Design Thinking in Practice

Statistically-generated personas


Opinion: Cognitive science and user experience — A new dimension of abstract

Beginners: A Guide of UX Writing

Spotting dark patterns: Learn from a petty UX analysis of an “unsubscribe” link

How to design friendly sidebar navigation?

How learning psychology made me a better designer in less than 2 minutes

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Productive week and take care of yourself Open / Comment