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The best articles about web design, mobile design, and user experience design!
8 Brilliant Examples Of Social Proof On The Web
Social proof is powerful stuff folks. And it’s everywhere you look on today’s social web.
10 Usability Heuristics for User Interface Design
Jakob Nielsen's 10 general principles for interaction design. They are called "heuristics" because they are broad rules of thumb and not specific usability guidelines.
How We Hold Our Gadgets?
Where do hands and fingers fall on the device?
Mental Models
What users believe they know about a UI strongly impacts how they use it.
Mobile App UX Principles
Improving user experience and optimising conversion.
Mobile Context Model
A heuristic guide for mobile design.
Task Analysis: Support Users in Achieving Their Goals
Task analysis is the systematic study of how users complete tasks to achieve their goals. This knowledge ensures products and services are designed to efficiently and appropriately support those goals.
The Typographic Scale
The typographic scale has been used for centuries as a means of creating balanced and harmonious font sizing. It is the bedrock of modern typography.
The Ultimate Guide to Information Architecture
Whether you hire a dedicated IA professional, or just sort of let IA happen on your projects, if you’re designing things with content, you’re using IA.
Touch Gesture Reference Guide
The Touch Gesture Reference Guide is a unique set of resources for software designers and developers working on touch-based user interfaces.
Usability 101: Introduction to Usability
How to define usability? How, when, and where to improve it? Why should you care? Overview defines key usability concepts and answers basic questions.
When and How to Create Customer Journey Maps
Journey maps combine two powerful instruments—storytelling and visualization—in order to help teams understand and address customer needs.
Why You Only Need to Test with 5 Users
Elaborate usability tests are a waste of resources. The best results come from testing no more than 5 users and running as many small tests as you can afford.