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
Design Process and Guidelines
Guidelines
High-level Guidelines
Guidelines are numberd for convenience but are not ordered by any particular priority.
- Don’t overwhelm viewers
- Avoid visual clutter
- Avoid poor visual design
- Carefully chose KPIs
- Align with existing workflows
- Don’t add too much data
- Provide for consistency
- Provide for interaction affordances
- Manage complexity
- Organize charts symmetrically
- Group charts by attribute
- Order charts by time
- Balance data
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
User flow design
User flow design (7-step guide)
User flow is a diagram showing the path a user will take in an application to complete a task, such as making a purchase, signing up for a newsletter, etc. A user flow helps designers focus on the user’s needs and find the most efficient way to meet them.
How to design a user flow, … 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
Use Case in UX
A use case in UX refers to situations that outline how a user interacts with a product or service. Each use case starts with a user goal and ends when the system fulfills that goal. The use case details this process through simple and active steps.
Consider a use case for the checkout … Read the rest
UX Tools For Better Thinking
UX Tools For Better Thinking
(https://untools.co), a wonderful collection of tools and frameworks to help you solve design problems, make better decisions, resolve conflicts and communicate better — with templates, sheets and useful resources, all neatly put together in one single place by Adam Amran. 👏🏽
Also highly recommended: Playbook For Universal Design (https://lnkd.in/eyXKNJ2D), a fantastic little helper with inclusive … Read the rest
Useful Courses And Workshops
Useful Courses And Workshops For Designers, with free and paid courses, workbooks and certification for UX, design systems, Figma and accessibility ↓
Free UX Course, by UXcel
https://lnkd.in/e2tXqwAg
UX Design Professional Certificate Course, by Google
https://lnkd.in/esA_fT3Q
Free UX Challenges, by UXTools
https://lnkd.in/eb7jkaGc
Accessibility and Forms, by Google
https://web.dev/learn
Free Hackdesign Courses
https://hackdesign.org/
Enterprise Design Thinking course, by IBM
https://lnkd.in/e9P3BM8t
✤ … Read the rest
Accessibility Overlays
Why Accessibility Overlays Are Not A Good Idea (https://lnkd.in/eb6MX3Uh), a thorough overview of why accessibility overlays are problematic and how to argue with business about why it’s better to implement an accessible solution instead. By Ruben Ferreira Duarte.
To many companies, accessibility overlays feels like a simple, reliable and almost magical way to solve the “accessibility problem” for … Read the rest
Accessibility/Design For Deaf People.
How To Design For Deaf People. Practical guidelines to keep in mind for 466 million people who have some kind of deafness ↓
✅ 90–95% of deaf people come from hearing families.
✅ Deafness often occurs due to exposure to loud noises.
✅ Not only at birth; emerges with age, disease, accidents.
🚫 You can see only around 30% of … Read the rest