Confirmation or falsification in your user research?

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..

Principles of visual design

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..

Design through the eyes of an INFJ personality type

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 ..

clipPath vs. mask

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 ..

Product management and design: Who does what?

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 »

The big flaw of social networks, and how to solve it

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 ..

A swiss cheese model for reducing biases in user research

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..

Popular Design News of the Week: December 21, 2020 – December 27, 2020

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..

A Utility Class for Covering Elements

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: ..

Weekly News for Designers № 572

2020 Web Design Year in Review – A look back at some important and interesting developments that impacted web designers this past year. Search Engine Optimization Checklist (PDF) – Use this handy reference to solve your most tedious SEO issues. Wavelry – Create your own custom wave graphics with t..