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A feed of UX articles from the best sources on the web. Updated daily.


June UX Training 2024 Agenda

Nielsen Norman Group

Nielsen Norman Group - 24 June 2024

Take up to 3 in-depth training courses, teaching user experience best practices for successful design. Courses focused on long-lasting skills …

The polish paradox

Matthew Ström

Matthew Ström - 29 April 2024

The more you polish, the less you see

July UX Virtual Training 2024 Agenda

Nielsen Norman Group

Nielsen Norman Group - 27 April 2024

Take up to 9 in-depth training courses, teaching user experience best practices for successful design. Live virtual training focused on …

The Picture-Superiority Effect: Harness the Power of Visuals

Nielsen Norman Group

Nielsen Norman Group - 26 April 2024

People often remember visuals better than words. Designers can leverage the picture-superiority effect to make their products memorable and learnable.

How to Create Effective Journey Maps: Learnings from the IxDF Course

Interaction Design Foundation

Interaction Design Foundation - 26 April 2024

Leverage journey mapping to improve your product or service design. Learn how the journey mapping course can help you identify …

The End Of The Free Tier — Smashing Magazine

Smashing Magazine

Smashing Magazine - 26 April 2024

Free-tier pricing is a common marketing strategy. “Free” gets people in the door and allows them to settle in and …

Affinity Diagramming: Collaboratively Sort UX Findings & Design Ideas

Nielsen Norman Group

Nielsen Norman Group - 26 April 2024

Use affinity diagramming to cluster and organize research findings or to sort design ideas in ideation workshops.

Master Mobile Experiences: 5 Key Discoveries from the IxDF Course

Interaction Design Foundation

Interaction Design Foundation - 25 April 2024

Learn the basics of mobile user experience design in our beginner course. Understand the steps to design for mobile and …

Design Systems Smashing Magazine Discussion, April 2024

Brad Frost

Brad Frost - 25 April 2024

I had a fantastic time chatting with a group of design system wizards, Nathan Curtis and Ben Callahan. Geoff Graham …

Conducting Accessibility Research In An Inaccessible Ecosystem — Smashing Magazine

Smashing Magazine

Smashing Magazine - 25 April 2024

Conducting UX research that includes participants with a variety of disabilities is vital to building inclusive technology, but most prototypes …

It’s the End of the Web as We Know It

Brad Frost

Brad Frost - 24 April 2024

Here's a pretty damning read about LLMs' impact on the web. Just how SEO produced an extremely lucrative-yet-icky industry, optimizing …

Using AI For Neurodiversity And Building Inclusive Tools — Smashing Magazine

Smashing Magazine

Smashing Magazine - 24 April 2024

This article illustrates how AI can be leveraged to build tools that can be inclusive with a little bit of …

B2B Electronics: Always Allow Users to Search Long Lists of Filter Options – Articles – Baymard Institute

Baymard Institute

Baymard Institute - 24 April 2024

Our UX testing found that long lists of filter options in desktop list views are challenging to scan to locate …

The Parallel Journey of Physical Product Design and UX/UI Design

UX Magazine

UX Magazine - 23 April 2024

My story of how I dived deep into UX when creating soft toys from scratch without even realising that…

Shape Pattern And How Users Read — Smashing Magazine

Smashing Magazine

Smashing Magazine - 23 April 2024

Scrolling, scanning, skipping: How do users consume content online? Here’s what you need to know about reading behavior and design …

How to generate color palettes for design systems

Matthew Ström

Matthew Ström - 22 April 2024

A guide on how to generate color palettes for design systems

The art of design system recipes

Brad Frost

Brad Frost - 22 April 2024

Recipes are a critical — and often misunderstood! — layer in the design system ecosystem. First of all, what exactly …

Are you ready for UX in 2024?

UX Planet

UX Planet - 21 April 2024

Hey everyone, I recently stumbled upon an intriguing piece on UX design in 2024. It debunked some myths floating around …

Stop designing chat-based AI tools.

UX Planet

UX Planet - 21 April 2024

AI tools are changing our lives. New tools pop up almost every day. While many of us are primarily users, …

User personas: how they started, and how they’re going

UX Planet

UX Planet - 21 April 2024

Whenever I talk to project stakeholders about personas, I usually get sceptical looks. Wait, we’re going to make up fictional …