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Getting a seat at the table doesn’t mean you need to abandon your desk.

 4 years ago
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We believe designers are thinkers as much as they are makers. Curated stories on UX, Visual & Product Design.

The right words will shape the entire experience.

Three app screens that each have exactly one word. One says Hey. Two says Howdy. The third says Yo, with multiple o’s.
Three app screens that each have exactly one word. One says Hey. Two says Howdy. The third says Yo, with multiple o’s.

User testing = trainwreck. We need a writer.

That’s what a former coworker texted me at 11pm one Tuesday night. She was a talented product designer, and she understood the importance of good UX writing. Now, she knew she needed help.

She had recently joined a well-funded startup, and her first few months had been intense. She was tasked with redesigning the company’s most important product. It was going well, she thought.

She was able to simplify the most complicated flows and reduce most of the clutter in the interface. She even polished off a beautiful high-fidelity prototype for testing. But her team didn’t include any writers. …

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Inventing a more humane way to scroll.

I consider feeds to be the “operating systems” of this generation — hubs for almost everything the average person will do on a computer.

For many people, especially those with limited attention spans and/or executive function capabilities, a break from the need to constantly be weighing decisions (Where do I go? What do I do?) feels especially welcome. I don’t need a reason to pick up my phone because I know I’ll find a reason the instant my screen turns on. I don’t need to think, I don’t need to decide— all I have to do is scroll.

It’s kind of wonderful… in theory. …

How Jason recruited his team — The Argonauts.

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Once upon a time in ancient Greece lived a young, ambitious design director named Jason.

Jason’s company, Colchis, was a promising business navigating a digital transformation. Jason had committed to building a design system — which he would call “Argo” — to guide that evolution.

However, it was not a task he could go at alone. The Argonauts, Jason thought, would be the team of designers he recruited to accompany him on his mission. Jason knew to succeed they would have to be a pretty colorful bunch with diverse skills.

To get a better sense of how and where to find his Argonauts, he paid a visit to an old friend: the celebrated HR executive and leadership coach, Chiron. …

And how we might develop a generation of designers who code.

Colorful drinking glasses
Colorful drinking glasses
“Glasses” by lorisgirl is licensed under CC BY-NC-SA 2.0

Code is mysterious. Frustrating. Exclusive. Maybe even dreadful. For most of us digital product designers, code is a complicated thing whose power amazes us, but whose mastery eludes us. And judging by the way our visual tools market themselves, we’ll go to great lengths to avoid code.

Build production-ready experiences without coding.
Webflow

Create fully-interactive high-fidelity prototypes that look and work exactly like your app should. No coding required.
Proto.io

Collaboratively design, prototype and launch voice applications for Amazon Alexa and Google Assistant. No coding needed.
Voiceflow

High-fidelity interactive design, minus the code.
Framer

The power to design, build, and publish 3D & 2D mobile games without coding. …

Surprise your users with a typo-tolerant search. Let them know that you care about them and you’ll try to do your best to show some results.

Hero image with “thypo torelance” as a misspelled form of “typo tolerance”
Hero image with “thypo torelance” as a misspelled form of “typo tolerance”

Everyone makes mistakes. That’s why undo/redo is a must-have for interfaces where you work on something. That’s why we add extra padding around clickable elements for touch screens so it’s easier to catch touches. That’s why Google tries to show some results even if what you typed is far from perfect.

Users absolutely love that and they can’t imagine software without ctrl+z and looking at a "No results" page when they mistyped something. It seems that the bar is high... …


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