How chess machines have improved human strategic skills

Deep Blue 1996’s victory was just a fresh start Continue reading on UX Collective »

Subtraction in design, NFT fanatics, headless UI, and more links this week

Weekly curated resources for designers — thinkers and makers.Generally speaking, people don’t get paid for removing features. They don’t get applause for eliminating jobs. And they rarely get promoted for telling their bosses they’ve been wasting their money. Much safer to propose something new, whi..

Designing for the autistic community

Product design principles that will improve usability for everyone. Continue reading on UX Collective »

Are bad graphical descriptions better than none to someone with vision loss?

More than 125K global websites use overlays rather than fixing their accessibility bugs. AI-generated alt-text used by overlays is not 100… Continue reading on UX Collective »

How to avoid using gradients like a lunatic

Gradients are everywhere you look these days and it appears they aren’t going anywhere anytime soon. Here is how to harness their power… Continue reading on UX Collective »

A playbook for designing for sales

Sales Design is a type of Service Design with its own best practices Continue reading on UX Collective »

The curated list of 25 amazing fonts for 2021

The search for a perfect font ends here. Serifs, sans-serifs and more! Continue reading on UX Collective »

How to condense user research into a one-page sketch

Finding compelling stories hidden in your user research Continue reading on UX Collective »

Advantages of doing design research in a foreign language

Being faced with the challenge of doing research in a foreign language is scary. A few years ago, I moved to Germany with no knowledge of German. It was a daunting move as a researcher; my skill set as a researcher depended greatly on language. Knowing how to frame and ask a question to reduce bias,..

Portugal by Sebastião Rodrigues’ pencil

A journey that merges with the country’s history© Tamanna RumeeThe recent history of design in Portugal in general and graphic design, in particular, is certainly still to be written. In other words, it is a story that is written every day, thanks to the work, often in difficult contexts, of thousan..