UX Design

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10 Things UX Writers Hate to Hear

Over the years, I’ve been lucky enough to chat with UX writers from a bunch of different companies. Even though we work on completely different products, we face shockingly similar challenges. Below…

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uxplanet.org

Float Label Pattern in UX Form Design

The very first time an input pattern had a float label pattern was in August 2013. The idea was simple enough — animate placeholder text to show an icon beside the input so the…

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intercom.com

GV’s Michael Margolis on User Research for Startups

As perhaps the only UX researcher on staff at a VC fund, Michael Margolis is parachuting into startups year-round to help them better understand their users. Following several years as a user…

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Designing The Perfect Feature Comparison Table

Not all products are created equal. While we repeatedly buy some products almost mindlessly, for others, we take a lot of time to make a purchasing decision. For a price tag that…

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uxmatters.com

The Profession of UX Won’t Disappear, but Adapt

There have been a lot of articles recently that discuss the idea of whether User Experience has staying power as a profession. I’ve read about ten of these—most of them discussing how…

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Building Block Design: A Modular Design Strategy for UXers

If you hate stories, you should skip this part. It’s about a UX designer who was tasked with championing a modular design strategy for her organization. She has short brown hair and…

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Designing Multiple Layers into Search

Two years in the making, we finally have our first beta release of Bootstrap 4. In that time, we’ve broken all the things at least twenty-seven times over with nearly 5,000 commits,…

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Why We Need Writers: Better Products, Services, and Companies

The arts and humanities are more intertwined in technology than ever before, and will only continue to become more essential in building truly great products and companies. “I believe art and design…

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Minimum Viable UX: A Guide for SaaS Design

When you’re building a SaaS app, you’re probably thinking about features and, the target market, and making sure it’s not full of bugs. While UX is vastly important these days — and can mean…

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UX Brutalism

Brutal...what? Originated in post-World War II Europe, Brutalism in design and architecture was marked by raw, unpolished aesthetics that made it easier to inexpensively rebuild cities and venues. It can also be…

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usabilitygeek.com

UX Case Study: Duolingo

In a blogosphere full of articles honing in on single, often granular components of user experience design, Codal‘s UX Case Study aims to examine UX from a holistic perspective, panning the camera…

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springboard.com

18 Things I Wish I’d Known When Starting Out in UX Design

I changed careers at 40 and became a UX designer. I completed a 3-month immersive UX design course in Sydney, Australia, in 2014. On completion of the course, I still had a…

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Don’t Mistake Common UI Patterns for Best Practices

A colleague of mine recently published an article on a new model that he coins the human environment model—an approach to product design that asks us to “blur the line between the…

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Updated Empathy Map Canvas

We designed the Empathy Map at XPLANE many years ago, as part of a human-centered design toolkit we call Gamestorming. This particular tool helps teams develop deep, shared understanding and empathy for…

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uxplanet.org

Soft Skills in UX Design Leadership

A couple of years ago I had a conversation with one of my UX mentors, Diana Furka, about soft skills in design. Now that I’m in a position where I often interview…

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uxplanet.org

The Golden Age of UX is Over

Here’s how to stay relevant in the new, mature era of digital product design When I started AJ&Smart in 2011, UX Design was still so misunderstood that I spent the next 3…

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