User Interviews

Whenever you run a study, are you trying to confirm or falsify your beliefs?Pic. Mike PolakMany times, when I talk to designers about their user research practice, they (quite subconsciously) tend to say that they believe it is important because it confirms their design choices. This statement alway..

These elements are inherently present in any good layout designSource: UXCamIn my last article in the design series, I talked about seven principles of design in general, whether it be a hardware product, a service, an experience, or a software UI. In this one, I am going a step further to emphasize..

As a UI/UX designer, I’ve been interested in researching user behavior, visual cues, and different underlying motivations that can have an impact on the user experience. Lately, I’ve also been curious to learn more about myself as a designer and how personality traits or preferences can play a role ..

These things are so similar, I find it hard to keep them straight. This is a nice little explanation from viewBox (what a cool name and URL, I hope they keep it up). The big thing is that clipPath (the element in SVG, as well as clip-path in CSS) is vector and when it is applied, whatever you are ..

It’s nothing new that conflict may arise between Product and Design teams. Here’s what we did to help everyone work together. Continue reading on UX Collective »

A little more than two decades ago, the young web had a very big problem: Finding the “right” information and what you needed was very hard. In other words, back then, search engines sucked. And then came Google, with a single purpose, to show people what they need, when they need it. It was not an ..

Developing a model to reduce the impact of cognitive biases in User Research.Fig: Swiss Cheese Model for preventing Corona Virus infection.Every accident has underlying factors behind its occurrence. Those factors are usually human or design-related which causes slips and mistakes, which cause the a..

Every week users submit a lot of interesting stuff on our sister site Webdesigner News, highlighting great content from around the web that can be of interest to web designers. The best way to keep track of all the great stories and news being posted is simply to check out the Webdesigner News site..

Big ol’ same to Michelle Barker here: Here’s something I find myself needing to do again and again in CSS: completely covering one element with another. It’s the same CSS every time: the first element (the one that needs to be covered) has position: relative applied to it. The second has position: ..

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