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Here’s what you need to know about conducting design research for an early-stage startup. Continue reading on UX Collective »

What is Auth?Those of us who don’t spend our days writing code often think of logging in to an application as one simple, bundled process of declaring who we are with our user ID and password. Behind the scenes, there are actually two important, independent components at play: authentication and aut..

Practicing radical empathy in product designAcknowledge your own lens and bias as the first step in empathy building for the customer. This will lead to deeper human connections and ultimately products that solve the needs of everyone.Image by Anna Shvets on PexelsEmpathy is the foundation of buildi..

Stefan Judis has a “Today I Learned” (TIL) post explaining how SVGs filters can be inlined in CSS. The idea is that CSS has the filter property which supports some built-in functions, like grayscale(100%) and stuff like that. But it can also point to a filter defined by SVG. So you could do filter:..

As a designer, you spend most of your time doing actual design work. But there are so many other aspects that go into running a business you need to handle. And that includes invoicing. Though you can certainly just fire off an email stating an amount owed, that’s not the most efficient method. You..

This little trick for gradient borders is super useful: .border-gradient { border: 5px solid; border-image-slice: 1; border-image-source: linear-gradient(to left, #743ad5, #d53a9d); } Here’s some basic demos from our article on the subject. Sephanie Eckles was sharing around the idea with more ..

React framework maturity, early container queries, WASM adoption, and monoliths. I’ll take all four, please. Not feeling like a particularly front-end-y? Jay says: Interestingly, the biggest developments in the front-end are unlikely to be traditionally front-end concerns. Back in our 2019 forecast..

Your weekly list of curated design resources, brought to you by your friends at the UX Collective.There is a portion of the American legal system under the category of negligence called “strict product liability,” also referred to as SPL. Under SPL, anyone in the product chain (seller, distributor, ..

Today I’ll be translating TikTok’s biggest competitor, RED App, to show you what might be coming to the US from the eyes of a designer. Continue reading on UX Collective »

Have you ever considered yourself an intuitive designer? Or is the idea of intuition something that you consider as disconnected from the design profession? Something to be wary of? Or something to be used and celebrated in your design practice?In Season 8 of Catching The Next Wave podcast, we’ve de..