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  • nngroup.com

    Don’t “Validate” Designs; Test Them

    All too often people use the word "validate" to justify their UX work. As in, "Let's test the design to validate it," or “Let’s do an expert design review to validate this…

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    How to Make Your Landing Pages Worth Landing On

    Have you ever arrived at a website and found yourself completely disoriented by the busy architecture, absence of prominent calls to action and just general lack of direction? If so, you’re not…

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  • nngroup.com

    Best Practices for Homepage Links on Websites

    A site logo linking to the homepage is not enough. Logo design and placement, as well as the presence of a text link to the homepage affect success of navigation to homepage.…

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  • medium.muz.li

    $0 Usability Testing Guide in 7 Steps

    Good design is not just about producing nice-looking pictures, it’s about solving a problem. And the only way to know if you succeeded at that is to put it to work — test it.…

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  • smashingmagazine.com

    Designing The Perfect Slider

    When we think about a slider, we usually imagine an image gallery slider, or the infamous carousel, or perhaps off-canvas navigation, with the overlay sliding in from the side. However, this article…

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  • smashingmagazine.com

    Designing The Perfect Date And Time Picker

    What could be so difficult about designing a decent date picker? Basically, we just need an input field and an icon that represents a calendar clearly enough, and once the user clicks…

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  • interaction-design.org

    Design Patterns for Fluid Navigation – How to Use Inline Linking

    When you’re designing a website for an online newspaper, your users will probably want to read some background information relating to a new government policy, a new whistle-blower, or any other word…

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  • heydesigner.com

    Best Practices for Modals / Overlays / Dialog Windows

    Modals, Overlays, Dialogs, whatever you call them it’s time to revisit this UI pattern. When they first came on the scene, modal windows were an elegant solution to a UI problem. The…

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  • heydesigner.com

    Best Practices for Modals / Overlays / Dialog Windows

    Modals, Overlays, Dialogs, whatever you call them it’s time to revisit this UI pattern. When they first came on the scene, modal windows were an elegant solution to a UI problem. The…

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  • shopify.com

    How to Build Usability Testing Into Everything You Do

    We all know we should do usability testing, but many of us struggle to find the time and budget. So how can we make it happen as a regular part of our…

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  • alistapart.com

    Color Accessibility Workflows

    The Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.0 contain recommendations from the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) for making the web more accessible to users with disabilities, including color blindness and other vision…

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  • mds.is

    Are Float Labels Really That Problematic After All?

    This is a response to Adam Silver's May 25, 2017 piece entitled Floating Labels Are Problematic. As the guy who made the original design that the majority of the Float Label craze…

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  • prototypr.io

    Getting the Login Page Right

    Now for full disclosure, this is more of a collection of already utilised strategies on designing login pages, than it is of new insights into how to do so. However, it is…

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  • heydesigner.com

    How to Design Great UX for Sign Up Form

    How many people like filling out forms? I think, not many. It’s not what users want from the service — they just want to buy tickets, chat with friends and so forth. And signing…

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  • medium.com

    User Research with Prototypes: Asking the Right Questions

    Showing users a half-baked prototype is partially usability testing and partially user research. You get feedback on actual designs and you get to learn about their mental model through deeper questioning. In…

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  • alistapart.com

    User Research When You Can’t Talk to Your Users

    It’s not breaking news to say that the core of UX, in a vacuum, is talking to your users to gather insights and then applying that information to your designs. But it’s…

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