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You want overflow: auto, not overflow: scroll
Every now and then a web developer using a Mac discovers that their beautiful design is littered with scroll bars on other platforms.
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100 tips for a better life
The other day I made an advice thread based on Putanumonit’s from last year! If you know a source for one of these, shout and I’ll edit it in.
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Make Your Own Tools
Spencer Miskoviak on the Wealthfront blog:
By creating custom DevTools specific to an app, they can operate at an even higher abstraction to handle things like user interactions, or debugging tracking events. While this requires building and maintaining the custom DevTools, it also means it can be ..
Product design in practice: Fixing broken customer experiences in existing products
Photo by Jason Strull from unsplash: https://unsplash.com/photos/kqBzDbiVV40Digital products that clear the startup product-market fit race usually come with all kinds of baggage — tech debt, product debt, promises and visions teams never followed-up on… These can create serious friction between you..
Product prioritization frameworks: Making sense of opportunities in a resource-constrained world
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Designing for large financial institutions
It is easy to say there is not much design centricity in the financial industry. Experience design cannot be taken lightly now that…
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The case for code in digital product design
And how we might develop a generation of designers who code.“Glasses” by lorisgirl is licensed under CC BY-NC-SA 2.0Code is mysterious. Frustrating. Exclusive. Maybe even dreadful. For most of us digital product designers, code is a complicated thing whose power amazes us, but whose mastery eludes u..
Amazon is not great, but the others are worse
Why online retailers should not bury their heads in the sand, especially at the beginning of the end of the pandemic.In the local retail industry, hardly a day goes by without an Amazon scolding. There is talk of “unfair conditions”, of “cutthroat competition”, a “quasi-monopoly”. I say: if you comp..
The 12-step designer’s journey
A detailed process for UX Designers inspired by The Hero’s Journey.The UX Designer’s Journey diagram, outlining the 4 quadrants & 12 steps, 3 steps per quadrant.The UX/Product Designer role has evolved past simply designing solutions in a silo. To build the best solutions we know Designers should be..
Designing for different cultures
The internet has increased our reach with new audiences. How we design for cross-cultural experiences has never been more important.
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