Beautiful UX deliverables, persuasive design, copying Snapchat, and more UX this week
Design links to start your week inspired.
Design links to start your week inspired.
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Beautifully crafted UX deliverables for your inspiration →
When people think of UX Design documentation, — wireframes, flows, personas — the first image that comes to mind is dense, long, and heavily annotated documents, full of boxes and arrows that indicate how a system is going to function and behave.
But it doesn’t have to be like that.
Here are a few examples of UX deliverables that are well polished, legible and simple to understand.
Sketching interfaces, by Airbnb →
Using AI to identify modules and components in hand sketches and generate final code in a matter of minutes. By Benjamin Wilkins.
The pitfalls of persuasive design →
The technologies we use have turned into compulsions. What can we do about it? By Maya Frai.
The endless battle, by Alan Cooper →
User-centered versus designer-centered, and how the prototyping-and-testing process can hurt the quality of your work. By Alan Cooper.
The journey from engineer to UX designer →
The journey of an engineer to becoming a UX design, and lessons learned along the way. By Florian Lissot.
Designing for large touch screens →
Designing a 22-inch touchscreen for a vending machine, and what that means for the design process. By Yubing Zhang.
What UX designers really want from user research →
Why we must go beyond the surface meaning of analytics data to understand the whys of users’ needs and behaviors.
UX, growth, and kids these days →
Why the TBH app makes me squirm but still got 5m users and was acquired by Facebook in 2 months. By Craig Phillips.
Stop designing for only 85% of users: nailing accessibility in design →
We have reached a point where users expect products to be optimized for a broad range of needs. Broader than you think.
What Facebook’s shameless copying of Snapchat means for product strategy →
How the company is prepared to do whatever it takes in order to fend off any competitors that get serious traction. By Hiten Shah.
News & Ideas
Uber now has a credit card (and 2-stop rides)
Amazon Key lets couriers unlock your front door to drop packages
Airbnb is building an apartment complex, in case you haven’t heard
Instagram launches live streaming with friends, and dramatic zooms
Gmail is now offering add-ons to boost your productivity
Salaries for AI talent within tech giants are slightly obscene
This website will honestly tell you what’s wrong with you
CNN’s ad on the post-truth era is simple and good
Is the startup era over?
A report on the future of design entrepreneurship
Within: a leadership retreat for women in design
Watch computer pros get excited about Windows 95
The Sex Reporter: objective, well-informed conversations about sex
Best practices when creating skeleton screens
Tools & Resources
InVision acquires brand.ai to offer better design system management
Sketch has launched an online shop
User Interviews and Lookback joined forces to enable better research
Adobe’s Scene Stitch feature puts AI to work for you
Flow: import Sketch designs and export dev-ready code
Sketch Libraries: an in-depth look
Webflow adds new interactions 2.0 to its tool
Ocean: a decentralized data exchange protocol to unlock data for AI
Notion: a collaborative workspace for notes, wikis, and tasks
Freelancing people: interviews with freelancers and agencies
Mirra: a tool to create immersive visual experiences
A year ago…
Stop the spammy notifications →
On a typical day, I get about 30 notifications on my phone. 30 times a day, my phone buzzes or beeps at me, begging for attention. It buzzes when I’m cooking breakfast. It buzzes when I’m running to a meeting. It even buzzes when I’m giving my toddler a bath… (by John Saito)
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