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The quality of a web application cannot only be judged on the quality of the application itself. A myriad of accompanying services and experiences are connected with a product and is not and should not be easily separated from it. Is the web...
The UI pattern survey initiative was launched without much fuss last week. With over 1000 replies, the data collected is slowly gaining momentum, and even though it is too early to make any empirically sound deductions from the results, I t...
This is a call-out for all designers, developers, information architects, project managers, writers, editors, marketers, and everyone else who makes websites. Now is your chance to get to know the web a lot better by helping sketching a true...
I recently attended a half-day seminar on best practices for handling redesigns of websites. The seminar itself wasn’t of much value – the only thing I learned is that we rock in our approach to building websites and their relaun...
Evaluating the quality of web design is predominantly a subjective process as it needs to be evaluated in relation to some sort of demand or need of a user. It does not make sense to talk about good or bad web design only evaluating how pret...
This tip is similar to the tip given in the blog post "Use a Sharpie". It is about constraining yourself from drawing small details and focusing on the idea, the concept and context. Does the overall idea seem useful? How does it deliver val...
User interface design patterns are best practices – proven solutions that solve common problems. But can you really create new and groundbreaking products by building your web application like so many others have done before you? Is it...
This blog post is one out of several blog posts on improving your user interface sketching techniques. You might want to read the first three posts: Drawing corners and boxes, Drop Shadow, and Use a thick pen.
Since AJAX became popular in web design, web applications has started to look much like desktop applications and has as such begun to suffer from some of the same design flaws. What I especially want to rid the world for is load indicators a...
This blog post is one out of several blog posts on improving your user interface sketching techniques. You might want to read the first two posts: Drawing corners and boxes as well as Drop Shadow.
From the archive
- How to get better at UI and UX design
- Sell before writing a single line of code
- When business plans are a waste of time
- Making the Hook Model actionable
- Making the Fogg Behavior Model actionable
- The tipping point of Persuasive Design
- Introducing the Validation Patterns Card Deck
- Beyond usability: Designing with persuasive patterns
- Mapping design goals to tactics
- 11 tips to increase form conversion
- Nir Eyal: Trigger users' actions and reward them to build habits
- Design effective rewards structures in web design
- Designing for push and pull in web design
- Optimization vs innovation
- The three levels of design patterns: Implementation, flow, and context