User Experience Goodness

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The best design tools for everything — from wireframing and prototyping to animation, accessibility, AR, design systems and sound design.

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Experience Rot

Jared M. Spool explains the dangerous effects of experience rot on user experience.

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Accot-Zhai Steering Law: Implications for UI Design

Dropdowns, hierarchical menus, sliders, or scroll bars involve steering a pointer or a cursor through a tunnel; optimal design for these GUI elements should consider the Steering Law.

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84 cognitive biases you should exploit to design better products

Learn how to use cognitive biases to increase your product's conversion rates, engagement level, and retention. A must-read article for every entrepreneur and product manager dealing with UX, UI and B2C products.

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User Experience vs. Customer Experience: What’s the difference?

Customer experience (CX) is a term commonly used to define UX over long periods of time.

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I am often asked recommendations on what course to take to learn UX design. I have several favorite online resources and books that helped me in my UX journey (I am planning to write a post about this), but one of the most useful courses I took remains the Interaction Design Specialization course taught by Scott Klemmer on Coursera.

It teaches you how to design great user experiences, from finding the need, through UX research and iterations, to the final design that will delight your users. It is great foundational course on interaction design!

While taking this course several years ago, I was sketching every lecture and later professor Klemmer included my sketchnotes to the course itself. 

Since that time I got lots of “thank you” Linkedin messages and emails from people around the world who found my sketchnotes useful in their learning journey. I am really grateful for all your emails, it is great to see that my sketches are useful to so many future designers! 

If you want to have all sketchnotes from the course in a single PDF, you can download them via link below. It is free, just put “0” in the price field and press “I want this”. 

Sketchnotes of Interaction Design Specialization.

Happy visual learning! :)

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I wrote the book on user-friendly design. What I see today horrifies me

The world is designed against the elderly, writes Don Norman, 83-year-old author of the industry bible Design of Everyday Things and a former Apple VP.

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(via xkcd: UI vs UX)

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Writing clearer error messages

A short guide to helping users fix errors

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Checklist Design - best UI elements for the best UX practice

Checklist Design is a collection of best UI and UX you need to provide a complete, honest and rewarding experience for your users.

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A modern tool for exploring and finding accessible colors. Make sure that everyone can see your creations.

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How to Develop Media Streaming Apps for Amazon Fire TV

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When building a mobile app, there comes a time when you have to decide whether to use solid or outline icons. Which style is better for user experience?

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Mobbin - Latest Mobile Design Patterns

Check out the hand-picked collection of latest mobile design patterns from apps that reflect the best in design.

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UX101: Building Data-Driven User Journeys

A user journey is a visualization of all the places a human being comes in contact with a brand or organization. Follow along through the UXBooth guide to discover the value of user journey maps and steps taken to build one of your own.

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Measuring cognitive load with a tapping test – Tomer Sharon

“Can you help us prove that using our product reduces the cognitive load on users’ minds compared to using our biggest product to complete the same task?”

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10 Year Challenge: How Popular Websites Have Changed

A look back at how our favorite websites have aged over the last 10 years.