CategoryUX

August 25, 2022 — Error messages need to be easy to spot, but they also need to be helpful. Let’s explore when error messages should live above input fields and why toast error messages are usually not a very good idea. Read more…

August 22, 2022 — In this first part of a two-part article, Eduard Kuric analyzes the characteristics of effective toggle buttons that make it error-proof and prevent confusion and frustration of users. Read more…

August 16, 2022 — With the “Back” button, users often get confused and frustrated. How to design a better back button UX and where to put those “Back” buttons in our interfaces. Read more…

August 4, 2022 — Nobody wakes up in the morning hoping to finally identify crosswalks and fire hydrants that day. Yet every day, we prompt users through hoops and loops to sign up and log in. Let’s fix that. Authentication is everywhere, and sometimes it’s extremely frustrating, and sometimes it’s seamless. Let’s explore a few patterns to create experience that are a bit more seamless than frustrating. Read more…

July 8, 2022 — The hype surrounding the metaverse is making many companies and people, including designers, experience FOMO (Fear Of Missing Out). As a designer, you may be tasked with figuring out how your company should approach the metaverse or thinking about designing for the metaverse. In this article, Lyndon Cerejo will discuss a few steps he recommends before diving headfirst into any design for the metaverse. Read more…

July 6, 2022 — Pricing pages can be complex and confusing. Let’s explore some design patterns, guidelines, real-life examples and best practices on how to design a better pricing page. Read more…

July 4, 2022 — In this article, John Scott Bowie shares the story of 40 years of attempts to advance corporate UX maturity that — after numerous initiatives with marginal results — culminated in a breakthrough project that accelerated a company’s UX maturity from “Emergent” to “User-Driven” in less than a year. Read more…

June 13, 2022 — Embedded systems make our lives easier. We unawarely interact with embedded systems all the time, and they go largely unnoticed — until things do not work as expected. In this article, Eva gives an overview of what embedded systems are and how they impact our lives. She presents three main learnings gained across her quest for creating better-embedded systems to enable the world as we know it. Read more…

May 11, 2022 — In this article, Denis Studennikov will be taking a closer look at a design case study and discuss possible reasons why its customers abandon their online shopping carts and what solutions are recommended in each particular case. Read more…

May 4, 2022 — How difficult can it be to design a bulletproof language selector? It’s not as straightforward as one might think. We need to avoid redirects, decouple our language and country presets, allow for overrides, and use non-modal windows. Can we fix it? Absolutely! We just need to decouple presets, allow for overrides and allow users to specify their intent. Read more…