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U.S. Web Design System (USWDS)
Official websites use .gov A .gov website belongs to an official government organization in the United States. Secure .gov websites use HTTPS A lock ( ) or https:// means you’ve safely connected to the .gov website.
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on: 2023-09-11
UX Pattern Analysis: Loading Feedback
On the Internet, loading is inevitable. There are so many factors at play that you may have the fastest software out there, there’s always a chance that your user will find themselves waiting in front of a screen.
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on: 2023-08-28
Hierarchy of Trust: The 5 Experiential Levels of Website Commitment
In creating transactional web experiences, designers are under constant pressure to reduce friction to conversion, drive people to the next step in the funnel, and collect user information as early as possible. But demands must meet users’ trust needs.
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on: 2022-07-12
Design Principles
Design Principles are a set of guidelines that empower a team to make wise decisions and appropriate trade-offs when designing, building and innovating. Applying design principles fosters a cohesive problem-solving approach, promoting efficiency, consistency and user-centricity.
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on: 2021-09-13
A comprehensive list of UX design methods & deliverables
This is an updated version of a list published a few years ago. A map that displays all the touchpoints of the consumer with your brand, as well as the key internal processes involved in it.
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on: 2021-01-25
The ultimate guide to proper use of animation in UX
Nowadays it’s hard to impress or even surprise with an interface animation. It shows interactions between screens, explains how to use the application or simply directs a user’s attention.
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on: 2020-02-26
Menus with "Dynamic Hit Areas" | CSS-Tricks
DigitalOcean provides cloud products for every stage of your journey. Get started with $200 in free credit! Flyout menus! The second you need to implement a menu that uses a hover event to display more menu items, you’re in tricky territory. For one, they should work with clicks and taps, too.
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on: 2019-09-24
4 Rules for Intuitive UX
This is my advice on improving the UX of your designs WITHOUT hours of user research sessions, paper prototyping playtime, or any other trendy UX buzzwords 😎 (Seriously, search this page “design thinking”. 0 results. Nailed it!) Who’s this article for? Easy: Developers.
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on: 2019-08-19
The Lean UX Canvas – Jeff Gothelf – Medium
In most of my work these days I don’t often use an official canvas.
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on: 2019-05-10
How to Report Errors in Forms: 10 Design Guidelines
Forms are necessary components of many applications and websites. We use them to log in, purchase items, send feedback, and enter our personal information.
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on: 2019-02-08
7 Rules for Creating Gorgeous UI (Part 1) – Erik D. Kennedy – Medium
Erik D. Kennedy NOTE: For the full, updated version of this article, please go here.
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on: 2019-01-14
The Elements of UI Engineering
In my previous post, I talked about admitting our knowledge gaps. You might conclude that I suggest settling for mediocrity. I don’t! This is a broad field. I strongly believe that you can “begin anywhere” and don’t need to learn technologies in any particular order.
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on: 2018-12-31
The Inter typeface family
One of the most famous lighthouses of antiquity, as I have already pointed out, was the pharos of Alexandria, which ancient writers included among the Seven Wonders of the World.
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on: 2018-12-30
Designs for a new admin theme [#3017785] | Drupal.org
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on: 2018-12-05
When It Comes To Personas, The Real Value Is In The Scenarios — UX Articles
Personas without scenarios are like characters with no plot. — Kim Goodwin I’ve seen it happen many times. A team launches a project to identify user personas with all the best of intentions. They’ll define three, four, sometimes as many ten or fifteen different personas.
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on: 2018-11-26
The Best SaaS Landing page examples I’ve seen ( their secrets for conversi
Usually, I don’t advise anyone to use other websites as reference since they have different business needs and people need to understand their context and their strategy to be able to apply them properly.
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on: 2018-11-09
BBC GEL | Design Patterns Index
Content utilities allow the user to interact with, or perform an action for a piece of content. For example, Add or Share.
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on: 2018-09-18
Design with Difficult Data · An A List Apart Article
You’ve been asked to design a profile screen for a mobile or web app. It will need to include an avatar, a name, a job title, and a location. You fire up Sketch or Figma. Maybe you pull out your drafting pencil or head straight to markup and CSS.
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on: 2018-09-07
Learning From Terminals to Design the Future of User Interfaces
I was recently called out on Twitter for claiming that Electron-based Slack, with three teams configured, regularly takes 30+ seconds to load. They claimed that I was either committing gross hyperbole, or the victim of some localized problem.
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on: 2018-08-04
Seven principles of effective digital navigation – Gerry McGovern – Medium
Design for forward momentum. Designing digital navigation is not that different from designing navigation for a road. You always want to be able to help people maintain their momentum and get to their destination as quickly as possible.
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on: 2018-08-02
The Art of Minimalism with UX
Minimalism is on the rise — but what is it? Is it the style of art that can be found in architecture, paintings, sculptures and design that eliminates all non-essential forms or features? Or is it a form of lifestyle where you declutter your life from all unnecessary things.
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on: 2018-05-08
Designing Windows 95’s User Interface – Socket 3
Three years ago I came across an interesting paper written up by a Microsoft employee, Kent Sullivan, on the process and findings of designing the new user interface for Windows 95. The web page has since been taken down – one reason why I’m a bit of a digital hoarder.
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on: 2018-02-07
An Event Apart News: Resilience: Building a Robust Web That Lasts by Jeremy
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on: 2018-02-07
Against an Increasingly User-Hostile Web - Neustadt.fr
We're quietly replacing an open web that connects and empowers with one that restricts and commoditizes people. We need to stop it. - Parimal Satyal, 2 november 2017. See also: my Paris Web 2020 talk based on this article and the Hacker News discussion threads from 2017 and from 2020.
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on: 2017-11-02
Rebuilding slack.com – Several People Are Coding
In August, we released a major redesign of slack.com, and we want to give you a peek behind-the-scenes. Rebuilding our marketing website was a massive project that took careful coordination across a variety of teams, departments, and agencies.
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on: 2017-10-13
The Post-Mac Interface — Medium
More about me at my website. In 1996 Don Gentner and Jakob Nielsen published a thought experiment, The Anti-Mac Interface. It’s worth a read.
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on: 2015-08-04
THE ILLUSION OF LIFE
SQUASH & STRETCH ANTICIPATION STAGING STRAIGHT AHEAD & POSE TO POSE FOLLOW THROUGH & OVERLAPPING SLOW IN & SLOW OUT ARCS SECONDARY ACTION TIMING EXAGGERATION SOLID DRAWINGS APPEAL
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on: 2014-05-03