Navigating lack of user feedback
Building a product without user input is not only difficult but also pretty dangerous, leading you up a blind alley.
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A designerly approach to privacy
Designers must be agents of privacy change: they have the tools to understand and predict the future and should have the power to change…
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Applying usability heuristics: How well is your competition really doing?
Photo by Christin Hume on UnsplashIn the UX/UI design process, “usability heuristics” are broad groups of characteristics that can help designers and researchers assess how easy an interface is to learn and use. They can go a long way to give you a bit of separation from your project so you can be a..
Stop asking your users what they want
Four simple tricks to improve the quality of your user interview questions
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It’s time we say goodbye to pixel units
Why responsive and accessible websites don’t really need ‘em.Photo by Sigmund on UnsplashIf you design or develop websites, do not use px units. Absolute units (px, in, mm, cm, pt, and pc) are as bad for accessibility and responsive design as using tables for layout. Of all the available absolute un..
4 ways Figma has transformed our design team
This article was originally published at Stream on Jan. 26, 2021.
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Applying the Panofsky method to your own design
If you are unfamiliar with the Panofsky method it comes from Erwin Panofsky, a German art historian who in 1932 looked into the study of…
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How video game UX can bridge the gap between players and the game
User Interfaces exist as a layer between the player and the game. As a UX/UI designer, the goal is to build a bridge that the player can cross. One which links the real world — a controller, a mouse, a touch screen — to the abstract and complex mechanics of a game.What do these two games have in com..
How to estimate design work
You can tell easily how much a car costs just by looking at the price tag. But what is the cost of producing that car? Or, how much did it cost to design that specific car, so it can withstand competition for at least one product lifecycle, be reliable, meet safety and brand standards, customer dema..
What should we do about public touch screens in the Covid era?
They need a rethink.Photo by Gabby K from PexelsYuck!Though they were probably always a bit unsanitary, during the Covid-19 crisis (I like to call it the Covidian) using any interface that was inherently communal became a not-so-great idea.
While research seems to show that the virus doesn’t live lo..
