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Agile teams are not great places to be perfectionists, mostly because we rarely know what makes something perfect. And, frankly, what designers think of as “perfect” is almost never the same as what a user would consider “perfect.” Instead of aiming for some nebulous version of a perfect design, aim for getting things good enough to learn from and iterate.In this video, Laura Klein uses the analogy of a familiar household activity to explain how you can train yourself to think in terms of good enough, instead of “perfect.”[[video:1049]]The Take AwayTeams that can learn from user feedback and iterate on features tend to stress less about making a product “perfect” before it gets released. The...

Ya know, I used to do one of these posts after making a few podcast appearances I hadn’t had a chance to link up yet, so I could share them. As fate would have it, I haven’t been on many podcasts (other than my own) lately. One exception! I was on Episode 33 of That Tech Show a few months back where..

Josh’s Shadow Palette Generator is a fantastic tool. The premise is that box-shadow pretty much always looks better when there are multiple layered shadows that are a bit tinted. It reminds me of how gradients almost always look better when eased. The generator does that, but also does three levels ..

So what is the one thing that people can do is to make their website better? To answer that, let’s take a step back in time … The year is 1998, and the web is on the rise. In an attempt to give a high-level overview of the architecture of the WWW, Tim Berners-Lee — yes, that Tim Berners-Lee — publi..

(This is a sponsored post.) Amazon has a vision with AWS Amplify. First, a premise: As browsers have become faster and more powerful over the last decade, front-end developers are building web apps that are more feature-rich and performant for both desktop and mobile devices. To implement these fe..

The year’s winding down as everyone segues into a much-needed holiday R&R. But that doesn’t mean there aren’t some awesome new tools and resources for website design projects. Check them out, and hit the ground running in January. Here’s what’s new for designers this holiday period. Enjoy! Fancy B..

The concept behind WordPress Multisite is simple: it gives you the ability to run multiple websites – all from a single installation of the popular content management system (CMS). Whether your “network” consists of two sites or two thousand, everything is administered in a centralized location. It..

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People get easily bored with trends, and every few years, the pendulum swings the other way. We have all seen the rise and fall of iconic fashion pieces or art movements. The same thing happens in User Interface (UI) design. UI trends go from interfaces that mimic real-world objects to super-minimal interfaces with no embellishments. All of them have their advantages and disadvantages. With knowledge about these UI trends, you can create and experiment with new ones, which is essential to innovate, push the design industry forward, and elevate your own design practice.To deliver exceptional visual designs and an excellent user experience, let’s look back and learn from the most relevant UI t...

We conducted research with hundreds of people working on agile teams about their experiences in order to understand some of the biggest design problems they encounter. Designers who work in sprints of one or two weeks can be under pressure to deliver fast, skip research and cut corners, which can pretty quickly ruin a product’s user experience. One way to work in agile teams is to learn how to design small. We need to shift our mindset from "design everything at once" to "design the smallest possible thing."One of the most challenging aspects of being a designer on an agile team is the fundamental idea of shipping code quickly and often. Designers working on a team doing one- or two-week spr...