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As a frequent traveller, I often navigate around cities where the public transport system is new to me, in a language I don’t understand. In some cases, these systems are well-devised so that…
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I’m going to make a wild assumption. Most users reading this are probably pretty familiar with mobile technologies and as such, enjoy at least a few of the conveniences that our devices offer us…
https://uxdesign.cc/constructing-the-mobile-transit-ticket-8539e89ca390
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In a time of unprecedented upheaval, the role of the traditional mobile product manager has evolved to cover an organisations entire digital strategy across multiple devices. Consumers have moved…
https://productcoalition.com/the-6-biggest-challenges-facing-product-management-teams-in-2018-ef9fd9cfdb9a
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Product management is a role often described as the skills intersection of Business, Technology, and User Experience (1). The profession of product management can be challenging to enter, and…
https://productcoalition.com/the-product-management-career-decoder-ring-9f2bcb58a95
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Creating products based on your own needs is easy — if you’re building something just for yourself, you don’t need to talk to anyone else because you know what you want. It’s pretty unlikely that you…
https://medium.springboard.com/the-art-of-the-user-interview-cf40d1ca62e8
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Now, if you are reading this post on a desktop, then gently hover your mouse on the clap icon on the left side of your screen. Now click on the clap icon. There is another little explosion and you…
https://uxplanet.org/ux-of-microinteractions-for-user-delight-fac1baed527a
* you can test and perfect your microinteractions using CanvasFlip
Compared to the Full Stack Designer, we seem to be more familiar with the Full Stack Developers. So what is full stack designer exactly? Can we simply think he/she is a versatile designer? In the…
https://medium.muz.li/what-is-a-full-stack-designer-in-2017-will-you-be-one-7933a7145fb7
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Success has different definitions for everyone. Becoming a great giver upper is essential to succeeding at the things that are important to you. Give up the stuff that is holding you back from…
https://uxplanet.org/12-things-you-should-give-up-if-you-want-to-be-a-successful-ux-designer-f5bc8581a848
Time is gold and trying to become a better designer requires time and effort. Here are some things that I personally do so that I don’t feel like I’m falling behind or spending my time unwisely…
https://uxplanet.org/what-i-do-on-a-daily-basis-to-feel-like-im-becoming-a-better-designer-4ed353893a4f
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Intro Article: Get to know the designers
Question 1: How did you get into design?
Question 2: How your typical work day?
Question 3:What things you wish you knew when you started in design?
Question…
https://uxplanet.org/what-do-you-want-to-see-in-my-ux-design-portfolio-fc98dc48c01
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This article is part of a series on our new Interface Guidelines.
https://medium.com/blablacar-design/stop-designing-interfaces-start-designing-experiences-d82def0b802c
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An introduction to the basic ingredients of a TV UI
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Our design team didn’t have any design principles and it was difficult to determine design success.
https://uxdesign.cc/why-design-principles-shape-stronger-products-ae677bdd831b
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I want to be a designer when I grow up
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by Nick Babich
https://uxplanet.org/mobile-design-techinques-e0212ac66765
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Design is hard—that’s what I hear from design leaders at every company I visit. As the VP of Design Education at InVision, I study how design works and bre…
https://medium.com/leading-design/7-problems-growing-design-teams-face-5fd94292d405
* InVision
* Envato
* design guilds
* Slack pairs designers on projects
* a North Star to guide their design systems
* short videos to illustrate to all how the product will fit into the customer’s lifestyle
* Airbnb worked with Pixar illustrators to create storyboards
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* Westpac
* Design systems work best when they’re managed by a dedicated team
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* Designers need to learn more about the business they serve and business in general
* They need to get to know the people in charge and ask questions
* Despite the impact design has on the success of a business
Four pieces of advice to help you work with CSS at scale
https://medium.freecodecamp.com/leveling-up-css-44b5045a2667
* What Makes for Semantic Class Names
* Naming CSS Stuff is Really Hard
* Semantics and Sensibility
* About HTML semantics and front-end architecture
* decoupled
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Five characteristics of good design taught through k-pop
https://medium.freecodecamp.com/what-k-pop-can-teach-us-about-design-6253a85f469c
* Not Spring, Love, or Cherry Blossoms by IU
* Lion Heart by Girls Generation
* Crush by Zion T.
Poor tables. Where did they go wrong?
https://medium.com/mission-log/design-better-data-tables-430a30a00d8c
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This is the fifth post in a series on accessibility from Shopify’s UX team. We’re publishing posts every two weeks. You can check out the…
https://medium.com/shopify-ux/lessons-from-building-mobile-friendly-accessible-data-tables-1e05c6924eaf
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Everywhere we go, we are surrounded by bad design — from airplane seats that distort our posture to aesthetically inelegant cars…
https://medium.com/design-your-life/design-and-the-self-a5670a000fee
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Sometimes, I wonder if we should screen usability testing participants based on their fashion sense. Certainly, this use…
https://medium.com/uie-brain-sparks/content-and-design-are-inseparable-work-partners-5e1450ac5bba
I’m in love. I’m in love with an idea. A quite simple idea, really. But one that has amazing effects when put into motio…
https://medium.com/uie-brain-sparks/themes-a-small-change-to-product-roadmaps-with-large-effects-a9a9a496b800
Lots has been written about how Internet businesses should build software, from books like The Lean Start-Up, and posts …
https://medium.com/intercom-inside/what-we-learned-from-scaling-a-product-team-12e9d2e028b1
Which One is Right For Your Company?
https://medium.com/earnest-product-management/3-types-of-product-management-dec4b2d77271
If you had to pick one, would you rather be a Product Manager or UX Designer?
https://medium.com/@melissaperri/labeling-ourselves-17218fd4456f
Building a great product is an art as much as a science. It requires making hard decisions and trade-offs, in circumstan…
https://medium.com/intercom-inside/where-do-product-roadmaps-come-from-b526a9c60493
Four things UX needs to know about product management
https://medium.com/eightshapes-llc/behind-the-wheel-with-product-and-ux-287dba3e6d64
16 Tips for Setting Up a System That Endures
https://medium.com/eightshapes-llc/color-in-design-systems-a1c80f65fa3
When I started working at my current company, there was no UX team. Suddenly finding myself a team of one — I’d spent th…
https://medium.com/design-leadership/building-an-enterprise-ux-team-f399e5f4bf66
* enterprise UX
* Pendo
* animations
* Content strategists
* Wearing 2 hats versus 7 is always better
How do you win the competition on the mobile app market in 2016? 5 design recommendations from Yalantis team that you should follow
https://yalantis.com/blog/excellent-mobile-app-design/
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The average app loses 77% of its daily active users within the first 3 days post-install. What’s worse: within 30 days, …
https://uxplanet.org/empty-state-mobile-app-nice-to-have-essential-f11c29f01f3#.tot7kuag3
Editor’s note: We’ve asked a handful of design leaders to respond to prompts each week. This week’s prompt was “What key…
https://medium.com/design-leadership/tracking-the-effectiveness-of-your-design-b60a7c58b21e#.5ufjoudpk
Who bridges the gap between the design systems and the engineering team? I call these enablers: “Design Systems Ops”
https://medium.com/@kaelig/introducing-design-systems-ops-7f34c4561ba7#.nrvh5oi2f
Have you ever paid attention to the number of notifications and alert messages you receive on a daily basis from various…
https://uxplanet.org/how-to-craft-mobile-notifications-that-users-actually-want-7b585e0e1fa1#.ei16zqhuj
Most of us have been in awe of just how quickly Slack has grown and infiltrated thousands of companies, conversations, w…
https://medium.com/@adii/is-this-the-best-customer-experience-ever-f0c8874bf743#.pnf54xhsz
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Don’t underestimate their significance
https://medium.com/@pete/the-first-three-rules-of-data-analysis-52b1dc9ad321#.2c0nucjr3
* Spurious Correlations
* data curious
Marketing creates interest in a brand, and design communicates a brand. So why do so many designers keep the marketing t…
https://medium.com/@InVisionApp/the-importance-of-design-and-marketing-collaboration-cd0f2345c6c4#.br9m4cx9h
* communicates a brand
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* In order for a company to perform well, designers need marketers
* marketers need designers
* the disconnect between marketers and designers is in collaboration
* communicate
* marketing and design teams should unite around the idea of performance
I sometimes joke that everything I have ever learned about design, I learned from my first job. Nowadays, this first job…
https://medium.com/the-year-of-the-looking-glass/8-unintuitive-lessons-on-being-a-designer-ca7e97a572ee#.rrcy1s7yg
* you feel like an imposter
* unconsciously prefer people who seem innately talented
This post is a summarized transcript from Intro to Digital Product Design course hosted by CUAppDev at Cornell Universit…
https://medium.com/intro-to-digital-product-design/lecture-1-what-is-product-design-c290bfe799a9#.oz65ry3ty
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The best products do two things well: features and details. Features are what draw people to your product. Details are w…
https://uxplanet.org/microinteractions-the-secret-to-great-app-design-4cfe70fbaccf#.de3c4itrw
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* usability heuristic principle
* KISS principle
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Design & Technical Strategy
https://medium.com/interactive-mind/designing-for-slow-cellular-connections-5fbbf4199928#.5o9dg59xs
We can all agree that by definition and principle -at least theoretically, design is about solving problems. Specificall…
https://medium.com/interactive-mind/data-informed-design-in-practice-6eae192f11f0#.x1zvsxotn
* Christopher Murphy
Getting people to do something unusual and have them be proud of it
https://medium.com/bridge-collection/how-design-can-encourage-unusual-but-good-user-behavior-c80b4f245f6c#.lmbun4bsc
A behind-the-scenes view of how Benjamin and I build products
https://medium.com/swlh/exploring-the-product-design-of-the-stripe-dashboard-for-iphone-e54e14f3d87e#.b3heqzn98
I come to Facebook to share all kinds of things with people I care about — from celebratory posts about practicing yoga …
https://medium.com/facebook-design/reactions-not-everything-in-life-is-likable-5c403de72a3f#.b8h46y9em
The last few years, it’s become cliche for startups to describe themselves as “Uber for X”. With Uber as the north star,…
https://medium.com/@sarahtavel/taking-the-wrong-lesson-from-uber-ae4b41e7c7da#.h6lok5giy
* re-launched uberX
* uberX was 40% cheaper
* @sarahtavel
When my cofounder Alex and I decided to take Penny from fun hackathon project to real product, we knew nothing about gro…
https://medium.com/swlh/your-first-500-users-dd61e4e5c9a2#.u2xnt27zo
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* real marketing page
* lapa.ninja
* /r/web_design
* submit.co
* biweekly recap articles
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IDEO has joined a creative collective. Here’s why.
https://medium.com/ideo-stories/the-next-big-thing-in-design-513522543a6f#.py7xbumhp
Lessons from badass UX Designers you can use in your workflow.
http://thenextweb.com/uxdesign/2016/02/03/8-habits-of-veteran-ux-designers/
We asked a panel of 21 UX experts to give us their mobile usability trend predictions for 2016, from 3D Touch to mobile ads and usability measurement.
http://whatusersdo.com/blog/mobile-usability-trends-2016/
When I started out in user experience in 1989 — the field was called ‘human factors’ back then — there was no concept of…
https://medium.com/@userfocus/how-to-wow-me-with-your-ux-research-portfolio-2867001aec18#.vcx17f0x1
The hunt for the perfect save icon
https://medium.com/@etchuk/is-this-the-perfect-save-icon-9651129bda85#.6zycwq6wr
A product design proposal for Twitter.
https://medium.com/swlh/twitter-rooms-e6f34e843e9a#.e0o4ent3m
There’s a standing joke here at Salesforce… Whenever someone in the product organization presents a list — and it could …
https://medium.com/salesforce-ux/defining-principles-to-drive-design-decisions-b647b68fb057#.nd4sqtlqp
* the backbone of progress
* Salesforce Lightning Design System
We’re Creativedash, a team of designers and developers working out of our studio in Roseville, CA. We’re focused intentl…
https://medium.com/@InVisionApp/how-creativedash-uses-boards-e800a6344f8#.v7dzjsry2
* Creativedash
* UI8.net
* Robot.co
* InVision
* new Boards feature
* the best thing about Boards: its inherent flexibility is powerful.
* Boards
* collaborative
I recently wrote about how to make your designs as modular as your code. As I explained in the article, Atomic Design is…
https://medium.com/@InVisionApp/how-to-save-time-and-money-with-modular-design-530a8f17b77a#.kjv9eeyax
* how to make your designs as modular as your code
* Done properly, modular design exponentially decreases your production time
* handoff
* On a good development team, code is created to be handed off.
* Block, Element, Modifier (BEM) syntax
* Sort Me Sketch plugin
User interface design is a production process. But beneath everything, it’s a service. And you’re getting paid for servi…
https://medium.com/@InVisionApp/mastering-your-perfect-design-process-88df57f5b8a4#.95g8zjbap
* Developing your own process is almost as important as developing your own design style.
* Photoshop
* Planscope
* InVision
* testing
* brings true joy
So you want to start a content strategy practice at your product company. You understand the positive impact it’ll make,…
https://medium.com/shopify-ux/starting-a-product-content-strategy-practice-how-to-build-an-army-of-content-champions-f8601c21208#.rzcgoxjcq
How Google’s Primer team approached UX
https://medium.com/google-design/designing-a-ux-for-learning-ebed4fa0a798#.cfqjbh6f9
At Product Hunt, we are so passionate about helping startups and makers launch their products and share them with the wo…
https://medium.com/@producthunt/the-rise-and-fall-of-everest-the-app-b0d2e6cb594c
There is a scene in my head that I have run into many times over the years. A desk littered with sketches. Empty coffee …
https://medium.com/swlh/lessons-i-ve-learned-from-leading-designers-c1a51d7e3dca
Paying for something online with a credit card is simple, right? Yes and no. Yes, because we’ve been doing it since the …
https://medium.com/user-experience-design-1/the-anatomy-of-a-credit-card-payment-form-32ec0e5708bb
Paying for something online with a credit card is simple, right? Yes and no. Yes, because we’ve been doing it since the …
https://medium.com/user-experience-design-1/the-anatomy-of-a-credit-card-payment-form-32ec0e5708bb?source=userActivityShare-203eef46b306-1448764480
The intersection of Disney and UX and why learning how to draw Mickey Mouse will change how you approach design
https://medium.com/@becca_u/the-principles-of-ux-choreography-69c91c2cbc2a
Shopify Plus, the enterprise version of our hosted ecommerce platform, launched in February 2014 and was still in its fi…
https://medium.com/@InVisionApp/7-elements-of-a-website-redesign-process-f56c8eaef2e1
* Shopify Plus
It wasn’t that long ago that we believed in a romanticized notion of the power of the talented solo designer. This indiv…
https://medium.com/uie-brain-sparks/the-redesign-of-the-design-process-a4363d31fcb2
* Lean UX
100 days ago, our Editorial Director, Amy O’Leary, laid out her vision for Upworthy: a move from curation to original st…
https://medium.com/@peterkoechley/storytelling-data-more-engaged-readers-cf3501049e7c
* announcement
How Shopify’s obsession with building for the entrepreneur in everyone led to their first consumer product
https://medium.com/get-sello/ecommerce-is-still-out-of-the-hands-of-too-many-people-58023c0773fc
* Christopher Lobay
10) Always get the full story before making a decision. ¶
9) It's incredibly easy to 'flip the switch' and start writin…
https://medium.com/the-year-of-the-looking-glass/a-managers-manifesto-be5f6b118084
“Let’s not reinvent the wheel.”
https://medium.com/user-experience-design-1/standardization-is-crushing-ux-6a9c32e9d62a
I unlock my phone to find another of my frequently used apps have updated overnight. Staring back at me however, is anot…
https://medium.com/swlh/let-s-talk-about-white-app-icons-ce2e83b9eb86
* Designing Better App Icons
* documented and debated
I unlock my phone to find another of my frequently used apps have updated overnight. Staring back at me however, is anot…
https://medium.com/swlh/let-s-talk-about-white-app-icons-ce2e83b9eb86
* Designing Better App Icons
* documented and debated
Only one of these weather apps is attempting to solve the real problem.
https://medium.com/intercom-inside/the-dribbblisation-of-design-406422ccb026
* Ryan Singer
* Julie Zhuo
* Dribbble
* Inside Intercom
* you can get a small flavour of it here
* a written description
* Eventually everything connects
While good color palettes are easy to come by these days, finding the right color palette for data visualizations is sti…
https://medium.com/graphiq-engineering/finding-the-right-color-palettes-for-data-visualizations-fcd4e707a283
* good
* color
* palettes
* is still quite challenging
* many different types of visualization layouts
Establishing a content strategy team from scratch is a challenge — especially in a product company with no existing cont…
https://medium.com/shopify-ux/product-content-strategy-at-shopify-37c14f4c3835
* Shopify
* Alaine Mackenzie
* The Elements of User Experience
* Jesse James Garrett
* join our team
* blog post
* Lynsey Thornton
If you are an experienced designer, you probably agree that being inspired by others is not stealing in UI design. It’s …
https://medium.com/@kollinz/misused-mobile-ux-patterns-84d2b6930570?source=userActivityShare-203eef46b306-1448325846
* one
* two
* hiding the navigation
* Experiments show
* the
* big
* players
* plenty of icons that your users know pretty well
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