UX design documentation is a vital part of any project that involves creating or improving user interfaces and experiences. It helps you communicate your design vision, rationale, and process to various stakeholders, such as clients, developers, testers, and users. However, creating effective UX design documentation can be challenging, especially if you don’t have a clear scope and goals for it. … Read the rest
Category: Techniques
Dashboard Design Pattern
Design Patterns For Effective Dashboards. Practical guidelines for designing better dashboards and UX patterns to keep in mind ↓
🚫 Don’t destroy user value by oversimplification.
✅ Oftentimes life is complex and tools must match life.
✅ Dashboard value is measured by useful actions it prompts.
✅ Aim to create understanding, rather than showing raw data.
✅ Start by studying … Read the rest
Onboarding UX Playbook
Onboarding UX Playbook (https://lnkd.in/eiKcTgZd), a practical guide on how to design better onboarding, common mistakes to avoid and some practical guidelines — along with decision trees and Figma templates below. Neatly put together by Ben Shih.
Ben highlights a few valuable points that are often forgotten or overlooked. In many interfaces, onboarding ends after just a few of … Read the rest
Optimizing Figma Files
How To Optimize Large and Slow Figma Files, a practical case study by Doctolib on how they reduced heavy Figma files by 83% — with private nested components, auto-layout, helper components and properties standardization. Kindly shared by Jérôme Benoit and shared by Jackie Torizani.
If you run into heavy and slow files, cascade your libraries down. Split your library files … Read the rest
Accessibility Research
How to build and run accessibility research, across various dimensions — from permanent and temporary to situational and travel, across touch, seeing, hearing, speaking and thinking.
How We’ve Built Accessibility Research at Booking.com” (https://lnkd.in/eq_3zSPJ), a fantastic case study on how to build accessibility practices and inclusive design into UX research from scratch. Kindly put together by Maya Alvarado.
🚫 Don’t … Read the rest
UX Storytelling
“No matter what anybody tells you, words and ideas can change the world.” – Mr. Keating
In UX, user stories build empathy by putting the audience in the users’ shoes. They also establish a common vocabulary and, because they emotionally involve the audience, they are memorable and often get audience members to buy in the UX endeavors behind the … Read the rest
Common UX Design Methods
The list below contains most common methods and techniques used by UX Designers as they create great experiences for users. For each item on the list you’ll see additional links with some of the best practices available.
Let’s start!
Value Proposition
A statement that maps out the key aspects of product: what it is, who it is for and how … Read the rest
Problem solving with Design thinking
A solution-based angle of problem-solving in design
Design thinking is no longer just a buzzword used to explain the process behind problem-solving in design. It’s a term that fully combines a way of thinking that includes creativity, analytics, and collaboration to resolve problems that may exist. Using a design thinking process, we can solve more complicated problems that require a … Read the rest
Design tradeoffs
Discover ways to please most of the users most of the time
Everyone talks about design principles as if we can create the best products as long as we push for the maximum on each design principle slider.
In reality, sometimes we need to compromise one design principle for another. More often, we need to deal with the conflicting interests … Read the rest
UX Migration of Legacy Applications
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1. ASSESS IMPACT ON USERS
When migrating your legacy application, first you need to identify the reasons for the migration. There are 3 angles to consider: the business goals, technical drivers and impact on users.
The area that is often overlooked is the impact on users. When that happens, the business misses out on an opportunity to significantly enhance … Read the rest