Doing the UX, file management, the age of anxiety and more UX links
What’s hot in UX this week.
What’s hot in UX this week.
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Hey, can you ‘do the UX’ for us? →
What they meant: can you help us think through the app’s interaction design, structure and navigation?
Where the misconception is: presuming one single person is responsible for successfully conceiving, designing, implementing and validating the user’s experience with a product.
Designed by engineer →
There are tons of developers who designed their own apps and succeeded to make it really attractive. By Ahmed Sulaiman.
Interviewing design interns at Facebook →
What their thoughts and experiences have been in the design field, and how they got into design. By Geunbae "GB" Lee.
Designing glue: how to mind the gap →
Glue is the connective tissue that exists between your product and everything else. Good glue fills in gaps and smooths bumps. By Ste Grainer.
Managing design files within teams →
File organization is unfortunately one of the less exciting problems to tackle as designers, and it’s often neglected until problems arise as teams scale. By Jules Cheung.
Design in the age of anxiety →
How do you design for situations other than the one you are in? How do you design for wartime during peace? By Erika Hall.
Combining graphical and voice UI for a better user experience →
Multi-modal interfaces as a more human way of communication between user and machine. By David Pasztor.
From pixel to big picture →
A Googler’s journey through adopting system-level thinking, increasing influence, and embracing self-doubt as growing pains. By Saba Zaidi.
7 things you need to know about designing a chatbot →
Allowing customers to get fast and relevant answers to any questions they have about their bookings. By James Butler.
A designer’s guide to competitor research →
While there are benefits to looking at how competitors solve a problem, there are some big problems with just copying someone else’s solution wholesale. By Dan Lachapelle.
A/B Testing: you’re doing it wrong →
How to effectively A/B test in a way that drives long-lasting results. By Justin Baker.
News & Ideas
Adobe announces exciting tools at Adobe Max, including Adobe XD
One day earlier InVision announced Studio, its take on XD + Sketch
Uber is teaching riders to communicate via sign language
Biri is a bot that guides you in reporting rape and abuse
Lego’s new collection highlights the work of the women of Nasa
Google Photos now recognizes your pet and lets you name it
Google Calendar for web has a new, improved UI
Google introduces advanced protection for at-risk users
EMMA is an AI-enabled plagiarism detector
The uncanny valley days are officially over — what’s next?
There was a giant picnic at the US-Mexico border this week
Nike’s new NBA ad is a thing of beauty
How to have some UX respect when localizing your app
The ethics of Mars exploration
Tools & Resources
Dropbox Showcase: a new way to deliver designs to clients and peers
HustleCase is a laptop case for whiteboard addicts
DeployHQ: deploy from github in minutes
Coindex: stay up to date with cryptocurrency markets
Beamer: notify product changes like a boss
Haptic Touchbar adds tactile feedback to macbook’s touch bar keys
RunCloud: hassle-free PHP web application and server management
FontPlop takes ttf and otf files and outputs a webfont bundle
FlowMapp helps you easily organize your web development process
CardHop: the contacts app you actually want to use
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Reducing visual noise for a better UX →
A critical analysis of what caused confusion on Spokeo’s Person Profiles, and the changes we made to improve our most data-dense product page. By Ali Torbati.
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