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UX design methods are cheaper, faster, and more effective at gathering data than “build, measure, learn” — but agile is designed not to take advantage of them. To truly take advantage of iteration, the team must be willing to set learning rather than outputs as their primary goal.
There's an immutable truth regarding ad design: ads need to stand out. This practical guide shows you how nine design trends, from AI-generated art to the return of vintage and retro design, can help you cut through all the noise.
By 2024, low-code application development will account for more than 65% of application development activity. Designers who lack coding knowledge will struggle to build products with no-code tools. Designers will not replace developers because they will want to remain on the visual side rather than fiddle with back-end code.
Pitch decks need to tell a story that engages people and inspires them to do something. Guess what? This involves considerable intentional design.
Thread is an AI tool for creating wireframes. Designers can tell it what needs to be in the wireframe and it will create one based on best design practices.
Type the logo you want, click the result, and select the format. It's that simple. Brandfetch's API allows programmatically accessing up-to-date logos, colors, fonts, and more.
Duff Beer, Dunder Mifflin Paper, Wonka Candies, and Barbie merchandise… We’ve seen countless made-up brands transcend seamlessly from the screen into the real world. Interviews with some of the designers behind these fake brands reveal what the key to their success is.
Effective navigation is about providing users with the best information architecture so they find what they're looking for. Tree testing is a task-based research method for finding the best way to enhance findability in a navigation element.
There’s a noticeable trend of disconcerting chatter on Reddit, Twitter, and Medium. A growing number of designers appear to be unhappy. The dynamic pace, the ever-shifting landscapes, the layoffs, and job insecurity are making designers fatigued. To fight against it, designers need to go through a mental shift and (re)start designing for themselves to uplift and inspire themselves.
If you've ever considered a starter, a main course, and dessert as some sort of storytelling, you're not alone. A restaurant in London finds its way to success by investing in an atmosphere that communicates its brand essence, inviting guests (users?) to an experience that delights all senses.
Starfield's unintuitive UI, fast-paced combat with no slowed mechanic, and lack of accessibility assistance to create characters show that Bethesda has not given enough attention to disabled players.
Against Apple's wishes, the Lightning port is finally getting replaced by USB-C. Users have been crying out for this for years, as it could offer greater peripheral compatibility and charging speeds. Google's latest ad takes a dig at the iPhone as it compares it to its Pixel phone.
Using the world as a canvas can be highly inspiring. This interactive guide brought by Google shows how Gorillaz, Gap, and Taito used AR to create immersive and engaging experiences.
Almost 95% of users have a browser with support for WOFF2 today. WOFF files aren’t needed anymore, but if still used, WOFF2 files should be included before WOFF in the @font-face syntax so that modern browsers use the correct, more compact file format.
Google’s Lookout app is designed to help blind and low-vision users understand their surroundings. People can now also ask follow-up questions for more information about an image.
Miro has adopted a less playful typeface but is still quite friendly. Its illustrations are now less abstract and more dimensional. Miro’s signature yellow has also been tweaked.
New findings from Mozilla’s *Privacy Not Included project revealed that major car brands fail to meet essential privacy and security standards. The latest models from BMW, Ford, Toyota, Tesla, and Subaru collect data about drivers, including race, facial expressions, weight, health information, and where they drive.
Digital products took to the extreme the need for constant improvement. A particular orchestration is needed between design, engineering, and strategy to continuously evolve a product in the right direction.
People who find ways to combine their knowledge and experience with AI-enabled tools will always have work waiting for them. Traditional design skills like attention to detail and expertise with layout and composition will always be valuable, but technical training won’t be a barrier to entry.
Tyrus started a survey with 250 illustrators worldwide to understand their pain points, which range from dealing with tricky feedback to managing client expectations. Most of the findings were related to client relationships and the collaborative process. The Airbnb Design team aimed precisely at that, providing guides, templates, and tools for mundane work so illustrators can focus on their craft.
Sometimes, design can be a matter of good vs. evil. Learn about the deceptive tactics used in websites and apps that make users do things they didn't mean.
This collection features subtle and delightful interactions from top products. Each example has a thoughtful explanation of the technique for rebuilding it and its code.
The Psychology of Design is an ever-evolving guide to crucial principles of human behavior related to user experience. A cheat sheet is also provided, covering critical aspects of the most relevant biases and heuristics involved in product usage.
Banking apps have a notoriously bad reputation when it comes to UX design. This article showcases 10 examples of banking apps before and after a redesign. Each example has a link to a detailed case study.
Typeform 2 was announced more than a year ago. The team behind the product to create beautiful and easy-to-use forms is finally ready to release the new version. It will replace Typeform 1, which is based on UX designs that are five years old.
Asimov, Jobs, Seinfeld, Oprah, Buffett, Newton, and many other greats have a common trait. Infinite devotion is about finding your passion and devoting yourself to it beyond mere discipline.
A mind-blowing guide that covers even the physiology of the eye. Explore and learn about the theory, science, and perception of color and contrast.
A tool that randomly picks accessible color combinations on every page load. Randoma11y picks two contrasting colors and shows a preview of basic UI and text, each as background and foreground.
A library of free vector and 3D illustrations that can be searched, browsed by styles, or explored by categories.
Creative work doesn't translate itself into products. You need builders excited to work with you and share the goal of providing a fantastic user experience. The key to that might be to start thinking about the developer experience.
Former Global Head of Design at Expedia Group, Rachel Kobetz, has joined PayPal as Senior Vice President and Chief Design Officer (CDO). The new executive will be responsible for the design strategy and execution at scale across all end-to-end experiences for consumers, merchants, developers, and employees globally.
A report from last month claimed that the developer workshops for Apple’s Vision Pro headset were very poorly attended. Developers have mixed expectations about Apple’s new product, considering it a risky investment. Apple denies these claims and says that the downloads of the SDK have exceeded its expectations.
What is your worth as a designer? What is your value? T. Robert Roeth asks himself those questions in a personal look at his 25-year-long career in design. Learn from his experience and see how his beliefs turned out to be misbeliefs.
Research conducted by Baymard showed that 21% of e-commerce websites have issues related to payment selection. However, there are easy wins that lead to significant results. Learn why you should consider offering more payment methods and updating buttons for third-party payment options instead of redesigning your entire checkout.
The term “equivalent experiences” is often used to communicate why accessibility is important. It implies that the experience should be the same for everyone. A closer look at Google’s use of the “three dots” button unintentionally proves another, more subtle point the phrase implies: poor design can confuse everyone.
This interactive guide covers everything relevant to building design systems. It includes design audit, structure, design tokens, collaboration, and metrics. A playbook completes the package, outlining all the questions you should ask when creating a product foundation.
A Kickstarter campaign was launched to fund an illustrated book about macOS iconography. The book features hundreds of icons designers and developers created over a decade.
More than 300 million people are colorblind. Covering this audience is a precious skill. This website brings several tools and resources to ensure designers are paying attention to them.
Solid design principles are usually a common trait among good products. Check out more than a thousand design principles based on the best real-life examples.
Data is a product, not a commodity. It is used by people, not computers, so it should be designed, not built. Data delivery should be available, informative, accurate, intuitive, and familiar.
A persona is not a person.
Even the best designers are susceptible to creating poor portfolios that fail to represent them. In this case, the hiring managers are the users, so designers need to create portfolios that are easy to scan, focus on telling a story, keep the right balance of text and visuals, and include the “non-fancy” stuff.
When around 1.3 billion people experience significant disabilities, standards are needed for more inclusive products. With WCAG's version 2.2, six new guidelines were released to improve digital experiences for users with vision, motor, and cognitive disabilities.
Tyler Sticka uses simple CSS and SVG animations to create a button with a rubber-like animation on hover.
Featured in The New Yorker, National Geographic, and The New York Times Magazine, Christoph Niemann's work ranges from ink illustrations to clever conceptual drawings. Here's a list of the ten rules he follows.
A new generative AI image startup founded by former Google Brain researchers seems to outperform Midjourney in one of its core weaknesses: typography. The tool offers a preset optimized for generating reliable text within images. Ideogram is available for sign-up in beta.
The tech titans' vision for a new city in Northern California has become more tangible. Artistic renderings show the plans for 50,000 acres of land acquired in Solano County.
Conversational interfaces are about to hit the road for more cars. Continental plans to be one of the first automotive suppliers to integrate Google Cloud capabilities directly into vehicle computers. The new feature will allow drivers to provide instructions in natural language to their cars and even ask questions.
Slightly reduce font weight on dark backgrounds, use smaller line height for headings, letter-space words in uppercase, correctly use the subtlety of old-style figures and small caps, and align the icons to the line height of the label. Eight micro details are explained in less than eight minutes to make typography look polished and refined.
Considering all the promises involved in AI, is a simple text input the best way to deliver it? David Hoang builds an exciting case, pointing out that we still haven't experienced a fundamental paradigm user interface shift, which is something that tends to follow true innovation.