Design Digest | October 2022
Max Stepanov
Product Design Lead. UXD, UXR, and HCI specialist. Experience in Product Design and Development, Design Management, and Digital Communication
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? Checklists
?? UX Recipe
A checklist where you discover, choose and estimate your next UX project tools & techniques.
?? Publications
Frustrated people all over the world have found dark patterns even on mainstream websites and apps. Click around to see some examples.
An open-source collection of Design Principles and methods.
https://principles.design/
https://stephaniewalter.design/blog/a-cheatsheet-for-user-interview-and-follow-ups-questions/
Unsure where to start? Use this collection of links to NNgroup articles and videos to learn about visual design in UX.
By Tess Gadd | UXCollective
How tokens, components, and patterns are pushed and pulled into a living, breathing Design System.
A framework for thinking about accessibility and inclusive design
This is where great research projects get started. We've created launch kits that will help you go from 0 to warp speed, even if you're brand new to research.
Information architecture is a discipline that focuses on organizing information within digital products clearly and logically.
Things to consider when designing drag and drop experiences and the Anatomy of drag and drop interactions.
Approaches to coaching and career development that help build resilience in career paths
Cognition, then, is not a representation of an independently existing world but rather a continual bringing forth of a world through the process of living.
A quick look at what the style is, why we need it, and a list of websites using it in different ways.
Learn how the labor illusion and benevolent deception work to improve our perception of interface loading times.
Managing banner expectations and their struggle for recognition.
Bill Chung’s guide includes interesting research findings & user tests.
From Apple’s Dynamic Island to TikTok’s vertical video swipe: Are new design patterns going viral faster than ever?
If you are wondering when to apply which design methods, or if you are interested in a knowledge map of Product/UX design, ??this mind map may help you. The rest of this article is a detailed explanation of the map.
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For many SaaS applications, product designers need to design permission systems due to privacy concerns and data safety or in order to make them more efficient and relevant for different types of users.?
Things to keep in mind when designing and building a mega-dropdown are alternatives to hover menus and fine details for designing a better UX.
- Put the back button and tangentially related actions above the form
- Place extra buttons based on what they do
- In single-field forms, put the button next to the input
- On multi-select forms - put it above the form.
Rules of thumb for producing learnable designs
Some concepts and ideas about designing permissions for an enterprise data and workflow management tool.
Autistic people make up about 1 percent of the population. Designing products for their needs means better serving the other 99 percent, too.
Infinite scrolling minimizes interaction costs and increases user engagement, but it isn’t a good fit for every website. For some, pagination or a Load More button will be a better solution.
Toxic positivity is the assumption that despite a person’s emotional pain and turmoil, they should only have a positive mindset.
Could the 4-day workweek take hold? Middle managers' uprising has begun. Ask your employees about them!
A text field is one of the most popular UI elements. Despite its a relatively simple object, it can have different styles.
By Habil Emmanuail
The size of the elements should be large enough for the users to see them easily. Larger elements attract more attention than smaller ones, as people tend to ignore objects they can’t clearly see.
Snapchat is a safe place for teens. They intentionally made the user interface challenging to grasp in order to make it difficult for adults to use.
By Kumar Shubham
The Quick Response code was invented by a subsidiary of Toyota to track parts across the manufacturing process.
The bottom tab bar (also known as the navbar) is one of the most popular types of navigation in mobile design. Its located in the easy-to-reach zone, making it easily accessible by the user’s thumb. Despite its relative simplicity, it can be tricky to design right.
Includes checklists, myths, iconography, graphical case studies & even documentaries!
Design tokens are the future of design and development. Here are some tools to help you connect your design with code better
So whenever you need a copy for a design or if you ever get stuck in the middle of development, you can use copy book.
Product designers and UX designers are both involved with the design of a product. However, product designers also have an eye for how well the product works with customer experience, while UX designers focus on the user’s interaction with the design itself.
Treating the symptoms, and not just the causes of burnout.
Splitting User Stories into more User Stories often means you are deceiving yourself (and your users too!)
How do we convince decision-makers to make ethical design a priority?
Applications we design are becoming increasingly data-driven. The need for quality data visualization is high as ever. Confusing and misleading graphics are all around us, but we can change this by following these simple rules.