UX Design Weekly

Issue 438 Articles How to Turn Good Design Direction into a Good System The discipline of design is the commitment to structuring and systematizing good ideas.Design Patterns Are A Better Way To Collaborate On Your Design System Building design patterns first unblocks people to work in parallel, kee

Issue 437 Articles The problem with sticky menus and what to do instead Designers use sticky menus to make them easy to access on long pages but this fancy pattern hurts UX far more than it improves it.Check out Sticky Menu UX Guidelines Power and Patience: Finding Leadership Balance Applying years

Issue 436 Articles Craft at scale is a white whale Craft at scale is mutually exclusive with the kind of rapid and unending growth thats the baseline expectation for traditional startups and public tech companies.The UX Research Reckoning is Here UX Research as a discipline, and researchers as an ou

Issue 436 Articles Accepting design How can we redefine our expectations to match our purpose.Don't design for your users Theres a much more intentional way to design and build products.Manufacturing Aha Moments For Your Users Breaking down how to manufacture aha moments for your users and what we c

Issue 434 Articles Lessons of Design The musings of a designer on what he loves about design and what hes learned along the way.Using dark patterns to overcharge for pizza A study on how Dominos (and Pizza Hut) use dark patterns, UX tricks and design psychology to overcharge customers.9 bogus reaso

Issue 433 Articles Designing for colorblindness Living with colorblindness feels like youre constantly being pranked by the world in subtle, irritating ways.How To Design An Effective User Onboarding Flow Designing an onboarding process that helps users recognize its potential and motivates them to

Issue 432 Articles The future of software UX How Artificial Intelligence might shape the next generation of software UX.Why do they ignore my awesome design documentation.Creating a live environment, not a cemetery of ideas.Why do websites have so many pop-ups.Why is the worst UI element of all time

Issue 431 Articles The Art & Science of Design It's important for designers to continue to integrate subjective and objective elements to remain relevant and effective.Product visioning through storytelling A process and storytelling framework to bring a vision to life.User-Feedback Requests: 5 Guid

Issue 430 Articles The Cost of Craft Why is it so hard to do great work at scale.The Psychology Behind Loom's Explosive Growth A look at the onboarding journey for Loom.Brainstorm Questions Not Ideas Listing questions enhances collaboration, decreases risk and puts you on the path to being a learnin

Issue 429 The big news this past week was GPT-4, with a demo of a working website from a sketch.AI is taking over and will fundamentally change the role of designers.How are you preparing and adapting to new ways of working.Articles 16 little UI design rules that make a big impact A UI design case s

Issue 428 Articles Design-by-wire How AI will shape designers, not replace them.How Duolingo drives subscription conversion A review of Duos post-purchase UX.The Anatomy of a Good Design: An Analysis of 4 Sites Visually pleasing designs use consistent type styles and spacing, create a visual hierarc

Issue 427 Articles A free masterclass in pricing psychology How Netflix made a simple changes that significantly altered their product.The End of Design As We Know It.is changing the Face of Design Forever The commercial and technological trends facing the industry and trying to imagine what comes

Issue 426 Articles Design systems in the time of AI AI makes it crystal clear we need to be focusing on why we create things vs what/how we create them.Make it easier is not a product strategy With just a little bit of research, you can turn make it easier into a real north star, and validation into

Issue 425 Articles Lessons of Design The musings of a designer on what he loves about design and what he's learned along the way.Onboarding Tutorials vs.Contextual Help Contextual help signals can avoid the pitfalls of onboarding tutorials but require unintrusive ways to activate.The age of Agile mu

Issue 424 Articles Design for AI: What should people who design AI know.Designing for AI means designing for a human-machine relationship that is in flux.Design thinking was supposed to fix the world.Where did it go wrong.An approach that promised to democratize design may have done the opposite.Ban

Issue 423 Articles Prompt-Driven Design Using an AI-powered command bar as either the primary tool of navigation or output.Creativity as a system Creativity when optimized, produce higher quality work and inch closer to mastery.The future of design systems is complicated Industry experts talk about

Issue 422 Articles Product design is going down a weird path, but we can still save it casual analysis of our current design industry compared to the old days and principles, Visual design rules you can safely follow every time Some visual design rules you can learn once and use many times in your c

Issue 421 Articles What it means to design a platform Interfaces, incentives, emergence, and second-order thinking constitute the biggest differences between platform and application design.The UX of Banking: 900 days of progress Looking back to see what's changed in the user experience of 12 banks

Issue 420 Articles Navigating the Discovery Phase Some methods to streamline the discovery phase for your project and help you find new ways to collaborate with your peers.User onboarding: best practices Simple rules that will help you design a streamlined first-time users experience 3 mindsets to l

Issue 419 Articles Minimalism is boring Unlock your own creative taste, and splatter your experiences into a sea of blank canvases.What is a Design System.6 different types of design systems.The State Of Usability In 2023 Observations from real usability testing on what people do and what they dont

Issue 418 Thank you for reading.Without you, there is no newsletter but if you no longer want to receive it in the new year, you can unsubscribe anytime.Articles Im a designer at LinkedIn.Here are 4 tips to attract more recruiters Understand how recruiters source candidates on LinkedIn and how to op

Issue 417 Articles From Web Page to Web Player How Spotify designed a new homepage experience.Forage, Make Sense, Tell a Story: 3 Steps to Successful UX Discovery Start by embracing your inner UX trash animal.How to Answer UX Job Interview Questions Shine brightly in your UX job interviews using STA

Issue 416 Articles The State of UX in 2023 A vibe shift is coming.AI and the Future of Design: What will the designer of 2025 look like.What we should expect and be prepared for in a few years.How to draw ideas In a creative process drawing can play four different roles.Three Pillars of User Delight

Issue 415 Articles Apple, what the heck are we doing.An iOS 16 visual design rundown.Creating a Fight Club Making a space for healthy conflict in an organization to work through confusion and disagreement.Its visual delight that youre looking for, not gamification If you spend more time breaking dow

Issue 414 Articles Craft A post about well-made, high-quality products and why shipping quality is hard.Real talk from a UX researcher A less diplomatic way of explaining what its like to be a UX researcher.Figma's feedback gift guide A handy guide to help you get better and giving and receiving fee