Take a few shortcuts with my comprehensive guide on evaluating designers Why is evaluating designers so difficult? Evaluating the performance of a product designer within a startup or agency environment is challenging. It involves a mixture of objective and subjective data that is synthesized in an attempt to gauge if someone is to be rewarded,… Continue reading Setting up performance reviews for Product Designers
Facilitating effective ideation meetings
[unable to retrieve full-text content] Designing engaging and productive gatherings Photo by Sigmund on Unsplash In today’s hybrid work landscape, meetings have become abundant, but unfortunately, many of them still suffer from inefficiency and ineffectiveness. Specifically, meetings aimed at generating ideas to address various challenges related to people, processes, or products encounter recurring issues. The lack… Continue reading Facilitating effective ideation meetings
Prototyping for Apple Vision Pro, baseline alignment in Figma, spatial computing
Weekly curated resources for designers — thinkers and makers. Google Glass emerged as a highly anticipated innovation with the potential to revolutionize our daily lives. Its sleek design, hands-free interface, and augmented reality (AR) capabilities promised a futuristic experience. However, despite its initial hype and grand vision, Google Glass ultimately failed to capture the consumer market and find… Continue reading Prototyping for Apple Vision Pro, baseline alignment in Figma, spatial computing
A Product Tsunami is Coming
How Artificial Intelligence is Reshaping Digital Products Management Jose A. Gonzalez Reboredo · Follow Published in UX Collective · 6 min read · 5 days ago — Listen Share Picture generated with Canva.com AI We all probably agree that Artificial Intelligence (AI) is the next major disruptive technological change. It’s a hot topic, and there… Continue reading A Product Tsunami is Coming
Using the Popover API: Native Modals for the Web
Popovers, a collective term for what you might know as “tooltips”, “overlays”, “modals” or “dialogs”, offer a powerful way to display additional information or actions within a web application. In this tutorial, you’ll learn how to use the new Popover API, a versatile new tool for creating dynamic and customizable popovers. We’ll walk through the basics… Continue reading Using the Popover API: Native Modals for the Web
Phases of the JavaScript Event Lifecycle
,When you work in JavaScript, events are a common occurrence. An event can be as simple as a hover, or click. When events happen, there are listeners to perform a desired functionality. With every event, the action propagates through the Document Object Model (DOM). The DOM has a tree structure, with siblings, children and parent… Continue reading Phases of the JavaScript Event Lifecycle
What’s so spatial about it?
A new world to explore for UX/UI designers. Continue reading on UX Collective »
Cut to the chase and only show important data
Elements that work in this chart ✔ Providing a context The biggest advantage of the chart is putting information about spending in the context of the country’s GDP. This allows a critical approach to the amount of support provided. It sheds new light on the enormity of the gulf between the United States and different… Continue reading Cut to the chase and only show important data
How To Monetize Your WordPress Site With Ads
Do you want to start making money with your WordPress website? Want to try ads on your site but not sure where to start? Putting ads on your WordPress site is a great way to make passive income. Monetizing your WordPress site with ads is an excellent way to generate passive income while sharing valuable… Continue reading How To Monetize Your WordPress Site With Ads
How to Hire a WordPress Web Designer
Are you in need of a WordPress designer? Not sure how to hire a WordPress designer? Web designers can help transform your website and build a successful business. In today’s digital landscape, having a professionally designed website is essential for any business or individual looking to make their mark online. WordPress empowers millions of users… Continue reading How to Hire a WordPress Web Designer
How to Hire a WordPress Web Designer
Are you in need of a WordPress designer? Not sure how to hire a WordPress designer? Web designers can help transform your website and build a successful business. In today’s digital landscape, having a professionally designed website is essential for any business or individual looking to make their mark online. WordPress empowers millions of users… Continue reading How to Hire a WordPress Web Designer
Apple Vision Pro: how to turn people into 24/7 surveillance agents for capitalism
From Apple.com In the world of tech, innovation is a double-edged sword. On one side, we have the allure of cutting-edge technology, promising to revolutionize our lives. But what happens when this revolution infringes on our privacy? The latest product from Apple, the Vision Pro AR headset, is a perfect example of this dichotomy. The… Continue reading Apple Vision Pro: how to turn people into 24/7 surveillance agents for capitalism
Decision provenance is a requirement for “two-way door” decision-making
Pavel Samsonov · Follow Published in UX Collective · 5 min read · 22 hours ago — Listen Share “What should we build next?” is a question that most product teams ask themselves every two weeks. Usually, the answer is focused on outputs: some variation on “the next item at the top of the backlog.”… Continue reading Decision provenance is a requirement for “two-way door” decision-making
Gooey Cursor Effect | Codrops
The other day I visited Lorenzo Dal Dasso’s fantastic website and had a lot of fun with the cool cursor effect! Of course I had to try it out and see what crazy stuff I could do with this and after having a peek under the hood, I saw that the wonderful duo @ETStudio5 who… Continue reading Gooey Cursor Effect | Codrops
How To Remove The Welcome To Your New WordPress Site Message
Tired of seeing the welcome to your new WordPress site message on your dashboard? Not sure now to get rid of this message? In this post you’ll learn how. The WordPress welcome message can easily be removed from your dashboard. So you’ve finally installed WordPress and are greeted by the Welcome to WordPress message. This… Continue reading How To Remove The Welcome To Your New WordPress Site Message
How To Turn Off Password Change Notifications In WordPress
Are you tired of seeing the password change notifications? Are you unsure how to remove the notifications? In this tutorial you’ll learn how. Password change notifications can be distracting. You can easily disable them for your WordPress site. Managing your WordPress site can be a breeze, but dealing with an overflowing inbox full of password change… Continue reading How To Turn Off Password Change Notifications In WordPress
It takes a village to do human-centred design
Photo by UX Indonesia on Unsplash Human-Centred Design is not a solo mission. It never was and never will be. It is a collective effort. HCD is an inclusive and co-creative process that relies on the combination of many kinds of expertise. It was made to solve wicked problems and fully embraces the Dusty Baker quote: “Everybody… Continue reading It takes a village to do human-centred design
Where is UI design headed?
Reflections and forecasts amidst the rise of AI and XR. Vrinda Singh · Follow Published in UX Collective · 16 min read · 3 days ago — Listen Share Video courtesy: Keiichi Matsuda I had my first encounter with generative AI in 2016, with the Deep Dream Generator created by Alexander Mordvintsev. It’s an image… Continue reading Where is UI design headed?
3 Essential Design Trends, June 2023
That’s a big part of the reason so many designers are stripping down menus to more minimal styles. (Plus, it can create a cleaner, more sleek overall design.) Here’s what’s trending in design this month – and it is all about navigation. 1. Pop-Out Navigation There’s an obvious connection to mobile-friendliness here – website designs that use… Continue reading 3 Essential Design Trends, June 2023
Event Bubbling and Event Capturing in JavaScript
Events are bound to happen all the time in a web application or web page. Events tell the page how to behave when something happens. For instance, if a user clicks a button, the web page should react, and events are used to define this reaction. Events can be anything, but here are the most… Continue reading Event Bubbling and Event Capturing in JavaScript
Embracing change with system-driven design
To embrace change, you have to make it easy and cheap. System-driven design is one way to do just that. Waterfall, the double diamond, and other traditional ways of approaching the development of digital products rooted in the building perspective take for granted that it’s easier to make changes to designs than code. They operate under… Continue reading Embracing change with system-driven design
Continuous design: a framework for digital products
I used my observations of good and bad design practices in product teams to identify three key principles that could be used to build up the framework: Design engages with messy reality Design knowledge resides in models Most (digital) design happens post-launch 1. Design engages with messy reality Many teams are so focussed on their… Continue reading Continuous design: a framework for digital products
How to Load in and Animate Content With Vanilla JavaScript
One of our popular tutorials on Tuts+ teaches readers how to load in and animate content with jQuery. While using jQuery allows us to write relatively less amount of code to achieve the desired functionality, it also increases page load time and introduces unnecessary dependency. Unless the website you are working on is already loading… Continue reading How to Load in and Animate Content With Vanilla JavaScript
15+ Prototyping Templates for Fintech and Banking Apps
The world of finance and banking is rapidly changing, with technology playing an increasingly important role in helping businesses stay competitive. As such, it’s essential for developers to have the right tools at their disposal when creating fintech and banking apps. That’s why we’ve compiled a list of over 15 different prototyping templates for fintech… Continue reading 15+ Prototyping Templates for Fintech and Banking Apps