One of the most important elements in the success of a website is speed. Tools like Google Lighthouse have been built to emphasize performance precisely because it is so important to user experience, and by association, to search engine ranking. The speed of a website is determined by numerous factors, but the single greatest is… Continue reading Is It Time to Start Using an Image CDN?
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Popular Design News of the Week: October 28, 2019 – November 3, 2019
Every week users submit a lot of interesting stuff on our sister site Webdesigner News, highlighting great content from around the web that can be of interest to web designers. The best way to keep track of all the great stories and news being posted is simply to check out the Webdesigner News site, however,… Continue reading Popular Design News of the Week: October 28, 2019 – November 3, 2019
Am I a good fit for a UX design?
User Experience (UX) Design is an intriguing field. As it’s called UX “Design,” it is easy to assume that only design people who have a traditional design or arts background may join this field. However, in the real world, I saw many talented UX designers coming from various backgrounds, including business, engineering, psychology, and even… Continue reading Am I a good fit for a UX design?
A/B fails, Figma community, awesome plugins — and more design links this week
[unable to retrieve full-text content] A weekly selection of design links, brought to you by your friends at the UX Collective. All them A/B tests that never happened →When A/B tests become less about user validation and more about having a escape hatch for lack of product vision. UI Learnability →How to measure learnability of a… Continue reading A/B fails, Figma community, awesome plugins — and more design links this week
5 Unexpected UX Design Skills to Help You Level Up
Whenever a hiring boom like this happens, you have to consider how it could work against you. Sure, there are more job openings. However, that means that more UX designers (and designer wannabes) are going to come out of the woodwork, trying to snag up the highly coveted gigs. So, let’s assume that you’re all… Continue reading 5 Unexpected UX Design Skills to Help You Level Up
Introducing 15 Best New Portfolios, October 2019
All the signs are that web design is entering a phase of exuberance, with clashing colors, rapidly changing graphics, and dense layouts replacing the minimalism that’s dominated digital design for the last decade. Portfolios are beginning to adopt this maximalist approach, but never fear, for those who aren’t quote ready for full-on retina burn on… Continue reading Introducing 15 Best New Portfolios, October 2019
Rearranging your apartment without physically moving things around — a UX case study
Deepti Mansukhani Follow Oct 10 · 5 min read My husband and I bought a new bookshelf for our bedroom and were excited to set it up. After building it however, we faced a little dilemma. We began to feel it might look better in the living room instead given its color and size. Unable… Continue reading Rearranging your apartment without physically moving things around — a UX case study
How to Deliver Dramatic UX with Weatherstack’s API
weatherstack provides real-time, historical, and even forecast data up to 14 days in advance. Licensed from some of the world’s biggest weather stations and weather data providers, the information provided by weatherstack’s simple to use API gives you an accurate picture of the conditions on the ground, wherever your users access your site from. Trusted… Continue reading How to Deliver Dramatic UX with Weatherstack’s API
Popular Design News of the Week: September 23, 2019 – September 29, 2019
Every week users submit a lot of interesting stuff on our sister site Webdesigner News, highlighting great content from around the web that can be of interest to web designers. The best way to keep track of all the great stories and news being posted is simply to check out the Webdesigner News site, however,… Continue reading Popular Design News of the Week: September 23, 2019 – September 29, 2019
How Powerful Micro-Interactions Boost Your UX
Because of the sense of value users perceive from micro-interactions, they not only boost engagement, but also inspire positive feelings towards your brand, and ultimately, influence users’ actions. This article will discuss the basics of micro-interactions and how you can utilize them to enhance your UX design. What Are Micro-Interactions? In digital design, micro-interactions are… Continue reading How Powerful Micro-Interactions Boost Your UX
Prototyping with Discord, top 30 design companies, jobs-to-be-done — and more UX links this week
Fabricio Teixeira Follow Sep 14 · 3 min read Better Search →A UX experiment re-thinks search result layouts. Design Mentorship →How Dropbox designs their design mentorship. Video Games UX →How games create sparkles, tension, and juice. The UX Collective newsletter is a self-funded newsletter read by over 112,200 people every week. The best way to… Continue reading Prototyping with Discord, top 30 design companies, jobs-to-be-done — and more UX links this week
20 Best New Portfolios, September 2019
Every month we roundup the best portfolios launched by agencies, freelance designers, and other creative professionals, into one easy-to-digest collection. And now we come to September. The kids are off to school (the poor dears), the teachers are off to school (the poor dears), and you’re free to spend some time thinking about the most… Continue reading 20 Best New Portfolios, September 2019
Popular Design News of the Week: September 2, 2019 – September 8, 2019
Every week users submit a lot of interesting stuff on our sister site Webdesigner News, highlighting great content from around the web that can be of interest to web designers. The best way to keep track of all the great stories and news being posted is simply to check out the Webdesigner News site, however,… Continue reading Popular Design News of the Week: September 2, 2019 – September 8, 2019
Bad designers, climate change, triangle-shaped designer — and more UX this week
Fabricio Teixeira Follow Aug 24 · 3 min read Are bad designers hiding behind the term “UX”? → UX Designers have gotten so used to not being responsible for the final look of the product, that they have dangerously distanced themselves from the visual design craft.
Popular Design News of the Week: July 29, 2019 – August 4, 2019
Every week users submit a lot of interesting stuff on our sister site Webdesigner News, highlighting great content from around the web that can be of interest to web designers. The best way to keep track of all the great stories and news being posted is simply to check out the Webdesigner News site, however,… Continue reading Popular Design News of the Week: July 29, 2019 – August 4, 2019
How Color Impacts UX
Let’s start with a common example: You’ve just finished a website design for someone. It looks and functions exactly like the wireframe. Everyone on the design team has praised the project. The client hates it, but they can’t explain why. The culprit might be color. Different colors can evoke such strong emotions that people have… Continue reading How Color Impacts UX
How to Build an SEO Tool from Scratch
A quick Google search of the term “SEO tools” will give you a list of countless apps and software all claiming to help you get higher rankings. For SEO specialists and digital marketers, this can be both good and bad news. Good, because it’s a sign that the industry is constantly evolving. Bad, because finding… Continue reading How to Build an SEO Tool from Scratch
Design Tokens, Irritating UIs, Search Microcopy — and more UX this week
Fabricio Teixeira in UX Collective Follow Jul 6 · 3 min read Fix your product goals for better human outcomes → If you lose sight of the goal and instead focus on the metrics, you’ll very quickly forget about people. Goals are the guiding force design needs to stay true to solving for real human… Continue reading Design Tokens, Irritating UIs, Search Microcopy — and more UX this week
One last episode and I go to bed… — a UX case study
Quentin DanglesBlockedUnblockFollowFollowing Jun 23 This week at Ironhack, we had our first solo project. We’ve been asked to create the feature of our choice for an already existing app. I opted for a time limitation for the fantastic yet time-consuming one that we all know: Netflix. “One last episode and I go to bed” We all… Continue reading One last episode and I go to bed… — a UX case study
Dropbox revamp, Figma plugins, scary Deepfakes — and more UX this week
[unable to retrieve full-text content] A weekly selection of design links, brought to you by your friends at the UX Collective. 10 memorable non-design films that have inspired me → Movies I have watched or re-watched recently, and key learnings from each. Sometimes the best design inspiration comes from unexpected places. Food for thought The new… Continue reading Dropbox revamp, Figma plugins, scary Deepfakes — and more UX this week
Starting in UX after 40
After more than 20 years of being at the margins of every single design trend, I found myself face to face with UX. Surprisingly, all the inadequacy that I thought I would experience soon faded away as I realized that precisely because of my age and my personal history, and for the first time in… Continue reading Starting in UX after 40
How to Create a Mega Menu With a Free WordPress Plugin
In this post, we’ll explore the WP Mega Menu plugin which allows you to create content-rich navigation menus on your WordPress site. We’ll go through the different aspects of this plugin and we’ll also build a real-world example for demonstration purposes. A sticky menu stays at the top of the screen, so that however far… Continue reading How to Create a Mega Menu With a Free WordPress Plugin
A Medium feature to create readlists just like playlists in Spotify & Youtube — a UX concept
A little Background Story I just can’t remember a single instance where a websites full of articles and news have not asked me to choose you favorites topics or interested areas. Of course, it is right to ask that question because you are not on the website to read everything, you are there to read… Continue reading A Medium feature to create readlists just like playlists in Spotify & Youtube — a UX concept
Designing towards live parking map — a UX case study
Florent LenormandBlockedUnblockFollowFollowing Mar 15 Background Context Parking is a huge problem in major cities. Drivers spend an average of 17 hours a year searching for parking spots. The hunt adds up to an estimated $345 per driver in wasted time, fuel, and emissions. SpotAngels is a community-based app that helps drivers find parking thanks to… Continue reading Designing towards live parking map — a UX case study