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Articles

Building user trust in UX design

Trust is at the heart of a long-term strategy of any product. There are many ways to earn it, and even more ways to lose it.

Design ethics Interface design

Material Design text fields are badly designed

Where to put the label in a web form? In the early days, we talked about left-aligned labels versus top-aligned labels. These days we talk about floating labels. Let’s explore why they aren’t a very good idea, and what to use instead.

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Designing Better Tooltips For Mobile User Interfaces

Tooltips are powerful design patterns implemented to enhance the design experience by providing additional information precisely when users need it. Sometimes, however, tooltips are obtrusive, especially on mobile devices where available space is at a premium.

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Six signup form techniques to convert more customers

If you’re designing a SaaS product, online store, or subscription service, getting more customers is probably your number one concern. And your signup form could be the thing keeping potential paying customers from ever giving your product an honest try.

Optimisation Interface design

The problem with dropdown fields (and what you should use instead)

Dropdowns are one of the default fields in the form design toolkit. But far too often, the dropdown is used in a way that makes user input more difficult.

Interaction design Interface design

Easily create adaptive buttons using Sketch’s smart layout

With the introduction of Smart Layout in Sketch 58, we can finally build adaptable symbols without the hacks, plugins or workarounds.

Interface design Visual design

The obvious UI is often the best UI

Design clear interactions instead of clever ones, and users will follow.

Information architecture Interface design

Skeleton versus Logo Launch Screen: A Direct Comparison

The launch screen is the first page that opens when a user taps the app icon. It plays a critical role in creating a first impression for both new and existing customers.

Interaction design Interface design

Integrating video and web content: lessons in user interface design

How to design a tight, intuitive UI that makes efficient use of the available screen space when both video and web content are begging for more room.

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Intercom’s fundamentals of good interaction design

The design community is no longer talking about having to prove the value of design to get a seat at the table. Designers have demonstrated that design can be a central pillar of business success. But they’ve also lost something along the way.

Interface design Interaction design

Devising Interfaces with UX Design Patterns

UX design patterns help designers devise workable solutions to common interface problems. These incorporate design best practices for every single piece of functionality, whether it’s a shopping cart or a sign-in form.

Interface design Design patterns

Button UX design best practices, types and states

Buttons are an ordinary, every-day element of interaction design. Despite this, because buttons are a vital element in creating a smooth conversational flow in web and apps, it’s worth paying attention to these basic best practices for buttons.

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Tools

Figurative

Love Figma? Love your iPad Pro? Meet Figurative.

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Courses

UI/UX Design Bootcamp

Become a UI/UX Designer. Job Guaranteed.

Bootcamp UX design Interface design

UI Design Program

Learn all of the skills, tools, and processes necessary to become a UI designer

Bootcamp Beginner Interface design

Affordances: designing intuitive user interfaces

This course will teach you both the theory of affordances and also how to build instantly perceptible affordances into your own designs.

Short course Advanced Interface design

Emotional design: how to make products people will love

This course will provide you with the information necessary to elicit positive emotional experiences through your designs.

Short course Intermediate User engagement UX design Interface design

Information visualisation: getting dashboards right

This course will lead you through some of the key considerations when designing dashboard displays

Short course Intermediate Interface design

The brain and technology: brain science in interface design

This course merges brain science and computer science in order to teach you the field of Human-Computer Interaction (HCI).

Short course Advanced Interaction design Interface design

UX/UI design bootcamp

Become a UX/UI designer: Learn all about User Experience (UX) and Interface Design (UI). From User Research to testing. In full-time or part-time format.

Bootcamp Beginner Interface design UX design