Product Design Digest | May 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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Minimum Viable Design requirements
Minimum Viable Design (means Minimum Viable UX design) enables users to get the expected experience and supports the business goals, prioritized for the current feature, product, or service.
5 Cognitive Psychology Theories that Contribute to the Quality of UX Design
By Dorian Martin
1. Retention Theory
2. The Serial-Position Effect
3. Hick’s Law?
4. The Schema Theory
5. The Chameleon Effect
Three Methods to Increase User Autonomy in UX Design
Summary:?Designers should help people use interfaces in ways that align with personal preferences and priorities.
By Tanner Kohler | NNgroup?
Gui Bonsiepe: Framing Design as Interface
Gui Bonsiepe’s career may serve as a signal of where design is heading or even as a model for a new generation of designers.
How to Create a UX-Vision Statement
Summary: Create vision statements using a collaborative, research-backed process to increase team members’ understanding and alignment of UX efforts.
Do Netflix, HBO, Spotify, Twitter, Hulu, Apple, and Google, agree with these designers? By Ryan Houk
Building better products with a design token pipeline. Lukas Oppermann
Awista Montagne challenges you to decipher his labyrinthine typeface, inspired by an ancient Greek maze
Design by the Decades: Get inspired by 90s graphic design trends
by Renee Fleck | dribbble?
Design button based on the first and second principles of heuristic evaluation
In other words, when we perceive a button as a 3D object, it’s best to design buttons to look like 3D objects.
Emoji Art
The artist J.R. Schmidt, which draws pictures from Emoji
Why UI Design Is All About Typography by Ayadi Ghaith
The first rule of design is: It’s all about the type (typography). The second rule of design is: It’s all about the type.
Animated Transitions in Mobile Apps
The common cases when functional animation can complement the visual design and support interactions. By Nick Babich
Good to great UI animation tips
Practical suggestions to improve your UI micro-interactions. By Pablo Stanley
Discover The Pitch Decks Of Billion-Dollar Startups Before They Were Famous
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User Journey Mapping for Complex Enterprise Systems. By UX Magazine
Dark Mode UI Best Practices. Eight tips for designing dark mode UI. | by Buninux. By Prototypr
Sticky Headers: 5 Ways to Make Them Better
Persistent headers can be useful to users if they are unobtrusive, high-contrast, minimally animated, and fit user needs. By Page Laubheimer | NNgroup?
53 Tech Terms You Need to Know as a UX Designer
Your A-Z list of tech terms in plain English. By Guy Ligertwood
10/GUI - touch interface concept from 2009 relevant even today?
Clayton Miller suggests ditching the mouse and windows in favor of a horizontal touchpad that allows users to control the interface with all 10 fingers at once.
Interestingly, some of the gestures proposed in this conceptual prototype are now found in real products.
Creative Types by Adobe Create
Everyone has a creative “type”—knowing yours helps you maximize your potential. Take our quiz to discover your type! Adobe Creative Cloud?
Why cognitive overload happens and how to overcome it
“Agile” is eating design’s young; or, Yet Another Reason why “embedding” designers doesn’t work.?
By Peter Merholz
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Creating space for design in Agile
Working within an agile framework focused on fast and iterative deliverables, how can designers create opportunities for design thinking?
?By Julia Lauer, Lauren Ciulla, Conner Sinjem | IBM design
Errors in Error Messages!
A UX writing case study on the Betterplace app by Pujashree Nayak
Problem Framing UnlockedNew to Problem Framing??
This article will tell you everything you need to know about Problem Framing and when to run (or not) a Problem Framing workshop with key decision-makers. By Dana Vetan | Design Sprint Academy
The emotion trap – why focusing solely on psychology when designing UX and UI won′t lead to success in the long run
Design, especially designing user experiences and user interfaces, has become far more complex than just playing with the psychology playbook or basic visual principles.
By Christoph T?nzer | The Good The Bad And The Monkey
Genderless design is a myth. What do you think?
"As much as we might like to generalize a style, design can never truly be free of meaning, culture, gender, and bias."
Navigation: basic rules and illustrative examples
Websites provide us with all kinds of information. Whether we want to learn more about something, buy a product, or donate to charity, we depend on navigation to help us find what we're looking for.
Interview with Brad Frost on what’s next after Atomic Design. By?Storybook
A guide to becoming a senior product designer
Learn how career ladders work and create a career plan to climb the ladder. By Aaron James?
What is a Design Sprint?
New to design sprints? This article will tell you everything you need to know about what design sprints are, when to use them (or not) and where they make the most impact. By Design Sprint Academy?
Design Sprints: How to best use them in your organization? By John Vetan
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Everything you need to know about Design Systems
THE BEST INVENTIONS OF 2021
100 innovations changing how we live.?By TIME?
Racial Equity in Design
The Racial Equity in Design initiative is committed to ensuring racial equity is instilled in the design culture inside and outside of IBM?
The history behind the World Time face for Apple Watch
The Apple Watch was met with a wide range of responses at launch. Some saw it as merely a gussied-up fitness tracker; others - as a threat to the Swiss watch industry. By Arun Venkatesan
Renders vs. Reality, Projects From Renowned Architects: Before and After
Render accuracy is extremely important, particularly in the early design phases, since detailed and well-executed visuals?can denote issues.?
There's More Than One Periodic Table
Here Are Some Designs You've Never Seen. By JACINTA BOWLER | Science Alert?
Learn Responsive Design
A course exploring all aspects of responsive design. Learn how to make sites that look great and work well for everyone. By Jeremy Keith, Chrome Developers?
One of the most friendly brand identities of BlufVPN by Stepan Solodkov
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15 Insane Things That Correlate With Each Other
How to design inclusive digital solutions
Over the last few years, there is a growing focus on inclusion in digital solutions. There is a need for acceptance, empathy, and most importantly equality. By Miroslava Jovicic?
Canada Modern is a physical and digital archive of Canadian graphic design, with modernism central to its glowing heart
Gender Equality Creative Platform
A branded data visualization system helps tell human stories about gender equality. Brand Identity, Digital Design, Campaigns, Data Visualization by Pentagram?
Which accessibility settings do the Dutch really use on their phone??
Researched by Q42
New Old Stock - Vintage photos from the public archives
Inside Apple Park: first look at the design team shaping the future of tech
Led by Evans Hankey and Alan Dye, the Apple Design Team holds enormous sway over our evolving relationship with technology. By Wallpaper
Brent Cross Town wayfinding
Wayfinding for a place in London to participate in sport and play. By Fieldwork Facility
Stop brainstorming
Brainstorming has become a heuristic, an attempted shortcut, a lossy substitution for psychological safety. By Matt Str?m
Why do we round corners
A deep dive into the human attraction for roundness. By Gon?alo Dias
Email Design Trends for 2022 - Designmodo?
Design principles for Web3
The internet evolved — web 1.0, web 2.0, Web 3.0. By Angela Ching
Adaptive, accessible, and automated color for Design Systems
Calibrating contextual colors to be readable and recognizable anywhere. By Lucas Zhang
Two perspectives on the designer whom Steve Jobs could not hire
Richard Sapper isn’t a household name like Jony Ive, Dieter Rams, or Phillipe Stark. Yet, his impact on the world earns him a place in the pantheon of design. By Arun Venkatesan
I’ve been doing buttons wrong! Have you?
Quick and practical button design tips to avoid common usability and accessibility problems. By Adham Dannaway?
The Four Dimensions of Tone of Voice
A website’s tone of voice communicates how an organization feels about its message. The tone of any piece of content can be analyzed along 4 dimensions: humor, formality, respectfulness, and enthusiasm. By Kate Moran from NNGroup
Cool design case with honest text about the weather from Tobias van Schneider?
UXArchive - Extensive library of mobile user flows: mobile UX trends from the world’s top mobile apps
Pantone Reveals 2022 Color of the Year
Pantone has partnered with Microsoft and other brands for Color of the Year products.
Virgil Abloh’s final collection for Louis Vuitton men’s wear featured styles in Very Peri. Ariana Grande has sported the color in a vintage Gucci halter top on “The Voice,” and Lady Gaga dons the shade in “The House of Gucci” movie.
Core concerns of UX in the Metaverse
New dimensions come with new responsibilities. By Marcus Lyra
#CaseStudy?
Delivering with Uber Eats | #CaseStudy?
Having used both the Uber Rider, and Uber Driver apps, it feels like they've invested most of their attention into the consumer experience.
Perhaps drivers are more willing to put up with bad UX, as they're earning money and have already invested time into the platform.
#DesignTool
Component AI - a collection of web tools for generative design. Gamuts, color schemes, gradients, and generative patterns of various types | #Tools
Godly Website is a curated collection of inspiring websites | #Tool
Huetone is a service for creating and extensively customizing color palettes | #Tools
ColorHuddle – Palettes with Examples | #Tools
Toools.design – Design Resources Archive & Newsletter | #Tools
A growing archive of 900+ design resources, weekly updated for the community.
UI Checklist | #Tools
101 UI Checklist items are available as a FREE Notion template.?
Great tool - Accessible Palette: Create color systems with consistent lightness and?contrast | #Tools
This app uses the chroma.js library to generate color ranges with consistent lightness between levels.?
#DesignResources
Dark Mode Color Palettes for Designers and Artists | #Resources
Night Palette is a free inspirational color palette tool made for dark mode design
Mindfully curated color palettes | #Resources
A collection of unique color combinations for your design projects. Steal them. Use them. Make something beautiful.
50 Design Systems examples to learn from (for your next project)?| #Resources
Pattern libraries that you can use as a source of inspiration by Dhananjay Garg?
ICONSAX is a large set of 1000 vector icons made in 6 different styles | #Resources
Available in the format: Figma, XD, Sketch, AI, Iconjar, Dart, CSS3, and SVG.
Free license for personal and commercial use.
Iconic - Free, “do wtf you want with” pixel-perfect?icons | #Resources
Where to get Free Icons in 2022? | #Resources
Where to find free icons after FlatIcon banned free SVG downloads. Collection of resources:
#Architecture
Brutalism — Visual Digest vol.1 | #Architecture
Brutalism is often the black sheep of the architectural community but some of its designs can take your breath away. Check out what I found!
Architectural Details: Zaha Hadid Architects’ Beijing Daxing International Airport | #Architecture
Parabolic mega columns meet an elegant, epic steel grid in the world’s largest airport terminal. By Eric Baldwin
Brutal Est vol. II. Build Your Own Concrete Eastern Bloc by ZUPAGRAFIKA
This playful and engaging book allows readers to explore and learn about the brutalist and modernist architecture erected in the former Eastern Bloc and ex-Yugoslavia, and build some of their most intriguing edifices, from the massive housing estates in Moscow to the brutal skyline of Tbilisi.
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Design Digest | Late 2021
Creative Trends from 2021 to -22
Freelancer, fond of web design
2 年Wow, thanks for linking to so much material on the subject of product design. Here is another good article about current product design trends https://gapsystudio.com/blog/product-design-trends/.