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02OPINIONS & TUTORIALS

DESIGNING BETTER REVIEWS AND RATINGS UX

95% of users turn to reviews for information about how well a product meets their needs. Sadly, reviewing and rating UX often confuses and frustrates users instead of helping them. To improve these vital elements, you can display decimal ratings and total number of reviews, display a breakdown of the rating distribution summary by product attributes, allow users to mark helpful reviews, and even reward users for negative reviews.

linkedin.com5 min read

TIPS FROM A MARKETING EXPERT ON HOW TO SELL YOURSELF AS A GRAPHIC DESIGNER

You need to be more than just a great designer in 2023. You also have to be able to sell yourself, keep up to date with social media, maintain your website, be your IT, be your HR department, network like crazy, and somehow find time to eat and sleep. Start by defining your target audience and what you are offering them. Forget the number of followers on social media and connect with creatives in real life, treat yourself like a client, and use AI as a tool, especially for the parts you aren’t confident about.

creativeboom.com8 min read

USER RESEARCH OFTEN TAKES TIME. HOW DO YOU MAKE IT WORK IN STARTUPS?

As a UX designer or researcher at a startup, it can feel like the team is sprinting down a path as fast as possible. You don’t get weeks to get user research done, you only get days. Instead of detailed spreadsheets with UX research data, designers should focus on getting the main message across, use the rainbow spreadsheet to make user research visible with color, and do the page-level notetaking with sticky notes to highlight problematic areas.

dataanddesign.substack.com9 min read

03LAUNCHES & TOOLS

GRADIENT MAP

Create a cool gradient map directly from a selected image in Figma

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NEURASCAPES

Free AI-generated images and photos for creatives and professionals. Curated by humans and the prompts are included.

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04MISCELLANEOUS

WALT DISNEY STUDIOS’ DRAWING ON THE PAST

Investors are starting to worry Walt Disney Studios is beginning to show its age as it turns 100. Its share price dropped to its lowest level in nearly nine years as the company stumbled in streaming. But adapting to the times is not a new challenge for Disney. Instead, it’s been a point of survival throughout the company’s history. A century ago when “Disney” was a single person and not a global company worth over $150 billion, emerging sound and color technologies rattled the silent film industry.

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CAPTCHA IS A DRAG AND SHOULD BE DROPPED

Online, undignified access is making people with disabilities jump through hoops to access information that other people can access easily. For example, throwing a bunch of inaccessible captchas infuriates them and means they have to contact support. To simply check their email.

uxdesign.cc8 min read

ART MATERIALISM: THE ART MOVEMENT HAPPENING RIGHT NOW THAT YOU NEED TO KNOW ABOUT

Art Materialism is a movement that celebrates physical art that uses unconventional materials in an era where so much art relies on AI and digital tools. Materials you wouldn't normally associate with the type of art it creates characterize the creations. Art Materialism's first nine artists are exhibiting their work at the Catto Gallery. The materials used include denim, packing tape, sneakers, car upholstery, scrap metal, wallpaper, tulle, crayons, and paint swatches.

mymodernmet.com4 min read