Test smart: How to refine your design with usability testing
Have you ever experienced a feeling of disappointment about some purchase? Was it a birdhouse that birds were not interested in? Or a coffee grinder that did not grind coffee well?
Similarly, a feeling of disappointment (or even frustration) is the thing experienced by an end-user of a poorly develo..
Why skipping the business need is never worth it
A plea for b2b product managers
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Design for the real people, not for the users
How to create better realistic use case scenarios by asking the question of “how” instead of “why”Image source and all credits: http://www.dirksbigbunnies.com/As an active practitioner of many design methodologies, while trying to understand why people behave in a particular way, over the years, I c..
How thinking like a developer can help you create more realistic prototypes
ProtoPie is an interaction design tool that affords advanced capabilities enabling designers to create bigger more realistic experiences…
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When does iconography start to become useless?
Those little UX crimes.Firstly, props to two sources here:
This is a superb article by Mary Formanek which lets you play the icon game, and explains this in much more detail:
Label your icons
Secondly, another incredibly good article by Shane P Williams that has some excellent advice and sources:
Ca..
A little history of the graphical user interface
I’d like to start this article by talking about a documentary series about web design called “Abstract” on Netflix. In the second season there’s an episode on Digital Design that focuses not only the internal work of Instagram’s design team, led by Ian Spalter, but also references the beginnings of ..
How much research does your project need?
A framework for successful stakeholder engagement
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An ultimate guide to selecting the perfect artboard size for desktop
Read how can you improve your productivity by selecting perfect Artboard size for your next Web UI Design without worrying about…
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Maybe it isn’t social media that’s making teens depressed, after all
Here’s what the Covid-19 lockdowns have revealed about teen depression.
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Waterfall design isn’t dead, just having an identity crisis
There is a place where waterfall design belongs; And without it we’ll never keep up with rapid sprint cycles.
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