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How to beat the “paradox of choice” in UI design
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How to beat the “paradox of choice” in UI design

“Less is more” is one of the most important minimalistic design principles every designer learns: you read about it ...

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The Case Against UX Testing
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The Case Against UX Testing

The UX designer has devised a series of tests to determine if a green button is better than a red button. One of them in...

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4 Ways to Improve Your Site’s Content
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4 Ways to Improve Your Site’s Content

“Why isn’t my site ranking in searches? Why has traffic not improved since we hired you? Calls from customers are ac...

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7 UX Laws You’re Probably Getting Wrong
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7 UX Laws You’re Probably Getting Wrong

UX laws are an invaluable tool, providing guidelines for designers that ensure we don’t have to continually reinvent t...

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25 Useful ChatGPT Prompts for Web Designers (that you can copy/paste)
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25 Useful ChatGPT Prompts for Web Designers (that you can copy/paste)

Being a web designer in 2025 feels like wearing five hats at once: strategist, psychologist, trend forecaster, accessibi...

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What 3D UIs Will (Probably) Look Like
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What 3D UIs Will (Probably) Look Like

Okay WDD readers, this one is going to get real conceptual. I’m here to talk about leaving two-dimensional user interf...

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Using Micro-Interactions to Drive UX
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Using Micro-Interactions to Drive UX

Micro-interactions originated with the need to guide customers who had hit a snag while using a service or a product. Th...

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How to Design Gesture-Driven UI
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How to Design Gesture-Driven UI

Remember the days when hovering and clicking with the mouse were the most used triggers for interaction with a site or a...

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How to design social media buttons that work
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How to design social media buttons that work

Social media is the key to any website’s popularity. Taking advantage of the psychological phenomenon known as social ...

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UX Fundamentals: 3 Ways to Apply Availability Heuristics
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UX Fundamentals: 3 Ways to Apply Availability Heuristics

On the 18th of March, one of Uber’s autonomous cars in Tempe, Arizona struck and killed a woman in the street in what ...

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Could you really be a UX designer?
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Could you really be a UX designer?

So you think you are a user experience designer?Are you sure? You might have it in your job title, but are you somebody ...

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Interview: Adobe’s Andrew Shorten discusses Project Comet
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Interview: Adobe’s Andrew Shorten discusses Project Comet

The big news at this year’s Adobe MAX conference was the announcement of Project Comet, Adobe’s new UX design tool. ...

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Google’s Project Mariner: UX and User Testing in the Age of AI-Driven Web Navigation
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Google’s Project Mariner: UX and User Testing in the Age of AI-Driven Web Navigation

Google’s recent unveiling of Project Mariner is more than just a technical milestone—it’s a harbinger of how use...

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The Power of the Human Face in Web Design
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The Power of the Human Face in Web Design

First impressions online are made in just a few seconds, so nailing your web design is crucial. Among the many elements ...

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6 Ways to Make Usability Hygiene Work for You
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6 Ways to Make Usability Hygiene Work for You

The term ‘usability hygiene’ was firstly introduced by Google in the context of the basics that need to be addressed...

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How to Get Started With UX Research
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How to Get Started With UX Research

But first, we will explore what UX research is and how it can give you valuable tools. Then we will analyze why user res...

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How to Design Checkout UX Like a Pro
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How to Design Checkout UX Like a Pro

The checkout experience is arguably the most crucial aspect of your online store. Any hiccups and the customer could get...

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Why Icon-Only Design Is Failing Users: The Case for Text Labels
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Why Icon-Only Design Is Failing Users: The Case for Text Labels

In recent years, the minimalist trend has taken over the design world. Sleek, clean layouts have become synonymous with ...

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3 Ways to Pimp Shopify for Better UX
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3 Ways to Pimp Shopify for Better UX

[“Shopify is one of the most well-known and widely used e-commerce platforms on the web. Merchants from all industries...

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Frictionless UX: How to Create Smooth User Flows
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Frictionless UX: How to Create Smooth User Flows

Almost two decades ago Steve Krug first advised us not to make users think. Today designers strive to create experiences...

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Everything You Need to Know About Websites And Privacy Laws
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Everything You Need to Know About Websites And Privacy Laws

When it comes to compliance, website developers need to keep their eyes on more than just ADA regulations and Section 50...

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How to customize UX for mobile
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How to customize UX for mobile

So what does psychology have to do with it? When it comes to user experience, almost everything.With so many device type...

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UX Design Doesn’t End With Your Website
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UX Design Doesn’t End With Your Website

Here’s why I ask this:As a consumer, it’s so rare that your only interaction with a brand is through its website. Ta...

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8 reasons to embrace website accessibility
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8 reasons to embrace website accessibility

In the past, fantastic web design was a simple business. All you had to do was ensure that the design looked good in Int...

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When Does Emotional Design Cross a Line?
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When Does Emotional Design Cross a Line?

Designing for emotion in and of itself is not a problem. Websites are bound to elicit an emotional reaction from visitor...

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6 Ways to Prevent Friction in Your Design
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6 Ways to Prevent Friction in Your Design

In user experience, friction is anything that prevents users from accomplishing their goals. Friction is a major problem...

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Cultivating Customer Confidence with UX
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Cultivating Customer Confidence with UX

After all, as much as companies may wish it wasn’t true, many consumers still judge a book by its cover. A website tha...

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How great onboarding leads to great UX
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How great onboarding leads to great UX

Did you know that the term “onboarding” comes from the HR department and refers to new hires acquiring necessary ski...

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Quick Ways to Make a Webpage More Scannable
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Quick Ways to Make a Webpage More Scannable

For web designers and developers, that means a few things: first, you need to ensure that the web pages you create are a...

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The Psychology of Price in UX
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The Psychology of Price in UX

As humans, we tend to rely heavily on one piece of information when we make decisions. We often anchor on the first piec...

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4 Tricks to Make Load Times Feel Faster
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4 Tricks to Make Load Times Feel Faster

No matter how well-designed your user interface may be, at some point or another, people using it are going to have to w...

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7 simple ways to achieve a user-centered website
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7 simple ways to achieve a user-centered website

Designers should be obsessed by designing with the user in mind at all times.If you’re designing a site with a main fo...

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The Complete Guide To Personalized Marketing
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The Complete Guide To Personalized Marketing

Personalized marketing is when you attune your marketing efforts based on customer data. This data can be anything from ...

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How to design a successful web app walkthrough
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How to design a successful web app walkthrough

We’ve all interacted with an app walkthrough at some point or another. Heck, some of us designed them.But when you tak...

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5 essential elements of a successful 404 error page
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5 essential elements of a successful 404 error page

404 pages are one of the most overlooked aspects of any website design, and when they’re not overlooked, the tendency ...

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3 Tips for Creating a Effective User Flow
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3 Tips for Creating a Effective User Flow

The purpose of almost every web design is to entice customers into buying your products, or subscribing to your services...

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5 Ways the Floating Action Button Boosts UX
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5 Ways the Floating Action Button Boosts UX

A Floating Action Button (FAB) is a circled icon floating above the user interface. Its shape, position, and color ensur...

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5 Ways to Improve the UX of Site Search
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5 Ways to Improve the UX of Site Search

Search is like a conversation between the user and system: the user expresses their information need as a query, and the...

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Stop Using Hero Images! They’re Killing Your UX
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Stop Using Hero Images! They’re Killing Your UX

There’s a pattern that’s haunted web design for over a decade now—one so embedded in our collective workflow that ...

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The Death of Google Search: Is the Search Engine on Its Last Legs?
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The Death of Google Search: Is the Search Engine on Its Last Legs?

In the world of digital marketing and web development, few institutions have been as influential as Google Search. For y...

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Are We Over-Simplifying UX? The Role of Friction in User Engagement
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Are We Over-Simplifying UX? The Role of Friction in User Engagement

Alright, let’s dive deep, and I mean real deep. The idea of reducing friction in web design is one that gets tossed ar...

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How Airlines Leverage UX (and Dark Patterns) to Monetize Seat Selection
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How Airlines Leverage UX (and Dark Patterns) to Monetize Seat Selection

In the world of advanced UX strategy, few industries demonstrate the power of persuasive (and often problematic) design ...

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3 Secrets of Successful AR Design
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3 Secrets of Successful AR Design

Over the past several years, augmented reality (AR) technology has established a home in entertainment, marketing, educa...

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The simple formula for great UX design
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The simple formula for great UX design

We’re in the midst of a digital renaissance. With the rise of startups and transformative tech companies like Apple an...

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Ultimate UX Design Guide to SaaS On-Boarding, Part 5: Data Import & Notifications
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Ultimate UX Design Guide to SaaS On-Boarding, Part 5: Data Import & Notifications

Data Import & Notifications is the 5th Part of The Ultimate UX Design Guide to SaaS Customer On-BoardingSaaS Customer On...

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How to Master Microcopy
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How to Master Microcopy

Microcopy  is the little bits of text that guide users through an experience. In apps and websites, microcopy includes...

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AI Is Revolutionizing User Testing in 2025 — and Honestly, It’s About Time
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AI Is Revolutionizing User Testing in 2025 — and Honestly, It’s About Time

User testing used to be a clunky, expensive mess. Remember trying to recruit five “ideal users” who were just availa...

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User Journeys vs. Customer Journeys: Why the Distinction Matters More Than You Think
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User Journeys vs. Customer Journeys: Why the Distinction Matters More Than You Think

Let’s get something out of the way: “user journey” and “customer journey” aren’t interchangeable buzzwor...

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5 Lessons UX Designers Can Learn From Game Development
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5 Lessons UX Designers Can Learn From Game Development

Game development and web development have more than a few things in common. Specifically—if you’re lucky—you’re ...

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3 Ways to Design More Inclusively
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3 Ways to Design More Inclusively

Accessibility is a process that seeks to mitigate issues in a design that is not sufficiently universal; inclusive desig...

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The Future of Web Design: Will We Even Recognize It in 100 Years?
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The Future of Web Design: Will We Even Recognize It in 100 Years?

Web design as we know it is barely recognizable when compared to the first websites that graced the internet in the mid-...

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Usability isn’t just for users
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Usability isn’t just for users

A lot of web developers are making me angry. Why? Because they’re literally trying to make it harder for me to build w...

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7 Ways to Utilize User-Generated Content
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7 Ways to Utilize User-Generated Content

Of course, figuring out the right way to incorporate user-generated content into your site or blog can be a real challen...

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10 Ways to Create Great User Onboarding
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10 Ways to Create Great User Onboarding

Ok, so you’ve built an awesome digital product—it might be a customer-facing app, an enterprise software, a web app ...

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7 Great Uses of Gamification in Web Design
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7 Great Uses of Gamification in Web Design

Gamification as a concept has been around just long enough for a number of experts to come out of nowhere. There was a b...

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How to usability test your site for free
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How to usability test your site for free

Usability testing is sometimes one of those things that designers conveniently ‘forget’ about. Why? Well do a search...

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FTC Orders accessiBe to Pay $1 Million for Deceptive AI Accessibility Claims
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FTC Orders accessiBe to Pay $1 Million for Deceptive AI Accessibility Claims

The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has mandated that accessiBe, a provider of web accessibility solutions, pay $1 millio...

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5 Tips for Using Curation as a Content Strategy
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5 Tips for Using Curation as a Content Strategy

But what if I told you that you didn’t have to write anything for yourself at all? What if I told you that there are t...

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The beginner’s guide to UX prototyping
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The beginner’s guide to UX prototyping

Prototyping, as a concept, has been around since before the Internet. Typically, people developing a new physical produc...

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7 key attributes of a quality UI
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7 key attributes of a quality UI

User interface design is a hot topic these days and for good reason. In a world where digital experiences are such a lar...

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Respectful UX: 5 Ways to Make Users Feel Valued
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Respectful UX: 5 Ways to Make Users Feel Valued

Every human being needs, rather desperately, to feel accepted. They don’t necessarily need to feel accepted by everyon...

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Mythbusting UX design: 7 misconceptions about user experience
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Mythbusting UX design: 7 misconceptions about user experience

While web design has become a hot commodity in today’s competitive market, many clients still don’t have a clear und...

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How to perfect your UX with persona scenarios
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How to perfect your UX with persona scenarios

User scenarios are the stories that your personasp0o act out. Basically, user scenarios are thought exercises (though re...

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How Scrolljacking Breaks UX Fundamentals
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How Scrolljacking Breaks UX Fundamentals

Let’s be blunt—scrolljacking is the design equivalent of taking the steering wheel out of a driver’s hands and say...

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The UX Nightmare: Why Tech Is Becoming Unusable for Everyone Except Cyborgs
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The UX Nightmare: Why Tech Is Becoming Unusable for Everyone Except Cyborgs

Remember when technology was supposed to make life easier? That dream is long gone. Instead of simplifying our lives, mo...

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9 A11y Tips for Global Accessibility Awareness Day
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9 A11y Tips for Global Accessibility Awareness Day

The 17th May 2018 is Global Accessibility Awareness day, which makes today the ideal time to consider how inclusive our ...

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Getting Started With Inclusive Web Design
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Getting Started With Inclusive Web Design

A key part of designing successful websites for clients is making sure that as many end-users as possible can access and...

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Cards vs. lists, how they impact UX
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Cards vs. lists, how they impact UX

Two of the most common ways to organize website content these days is by using cards and lists. Each has its own pros an...

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6 Ways Illustration Improves UX
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6 Ways Illustration Improves UX

The old saying “a picture is worth a thousand words” is still relevant to today’s experiences. People are attracte...

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Non-Linear Web Design: Unlocking the Future of User Experience
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Non-Linear Web Design: Unlocking the Future of User Experience

In the ever-evolving world of web design, one thing has become crystal clear: linear design is no longer enough. As desi...

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8 Ways to Emotionally Reward Your Users
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8 Ways to Emotionally Reward Your Users

As sometimes happens, I was thinking the other day. In this case, I was doing my thinking after finishing a long video g...

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26 steps to perfect product design
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26 steps to perfect product design

Over the last four years I’ve been designing dashboards and applications, and I’ve learned how to deal with differen...

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7 Reasons Clients Don’t Trust Your UX
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7 Reasons Clients Don’t Trust Your UX

One of the most frustrating scenarios for a UX designer is when a client’s team takes time to think things over and co...

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Evolving Usability: Advanced Heuristics for Pro-Level Interfaces
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Evolving Usability: Advanced Heuristics for Pro-Level Interfaces

In the world of User Experience (UX) design, Jakob Nielsen’s 10 Usability Heuristics for User Interface Design have lo...

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5 Ways to Design for Customers and Search Engines
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5 Ways to Design for Customers and Search Engines

Business owners and web designers are pulled in many different directions when determining what features and content the...

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Boost your UX with text chunking
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Boost your UX with text chunking

The majority of the content that website visitors come across on the web is written content, copy or text that either in...

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Does Diversity in Photos Affect UX?
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Does Diversity in Photos Affect UX?

But let’s be honest: it’s not always easy to find photos that feel inclusive — whether they come from stock photo ...

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5 ways effective UI design promotes UX
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5 ways effective UI design promotes UX

A user experience is something that every website offers to those who visit it. However, the experience will differ from...

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How we redesigned Yelp’s UX with remote usability testing
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How we redesigned Yelp’s UX with remote usability testing

Usability testing, with real users, is one of the key areas that too many web designers skip. Often, there is little mon...

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7 Ways to Tell a Great Story with Design
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7 Ways to Tell a Great Story with Design

A website is more than just a place to hold information about your app, portfolio or products. It should tell a story to...

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Prevent UX fails with smart design
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Prevent UX fails with smart design

One thing that not enough designers focus on when designing websites is cutting down on user errors. That’s a pity bec...

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8 Contact Page Mistakes That Are Costing You Conversions
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8 Contact Page Mistakes That Are Costing You Conversions

Landing pages are probably one of the first pages you think about when it comes to creating conversions. But what about ...

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When Slower UX is Better UX
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When Slower UX is Better UX

When it comes to technology, faster isn’t always better.It’s true that 47 percent of people want web pages to load i...

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Ultimate UX Design Guide to SaaS On-Boarding, Part 4: First Login
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Ultimate UX Design Guide to SaaS On-Boarding, Part 4: First Login

This is the 4th part of The Ultimate UX Design Guide to SaaS Customer On-Boarding.SaaS Customer On-boarding is the proce...

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Do web designers really need to know UX?
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Do web designers really need to know UX?

The short answer is “yes”, but it is not as straight forward as that; not all web designers need to be UX designers ...

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Classic landing page mistakes you’re probably still making
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Classic landing page mistakes you’re probably still making

One of the biggest clashes in design has been the question of whether to strip down your landing page to the point where...

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11 websites that perfect UX by focusing on details
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11 websites that perfect UX by focusing on details

Charles Eames said, “The details are not the details. They make the design.” A website is a composite of details—a...

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Hurdle UX obstacles with design sprints
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Hurdle UX obstacles with design sprints

If you’re in the process of creating a website or application, and run into a problem, it’s important to stop and ta...

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Perfect your website with 3 simple UX research methods
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Perfect your website with 3 simple UX research methods

User testing doesn’t have to be difficult at all. I’m going to talk about three lean research methods that are neith...

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3 UX Rules for Conversational UI Design
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3 UX Rules for Conversational UI Design

You may have heard that “conversational interfaces” are the new hot trend in digital product design. Industry leader...

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The Silent UX Killer: Micro Failures Are Wrecking Your Site
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The Silent UX Killer: Micro Failures Are Wrecking Your Site

Let’s cut the crap: your site isn’t broken, it just feels broken.You’ve got no 500 errors, the checkout works, b...

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Let’s do it live! The impact of live data on UX
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Let’s do it live! The impact of live data on UX

Few things in this world strike terror into the hearts of men (and women) quite like performing in front of a live audie...

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How Formatting Text in Web Design Increases Conversions
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How Formatting Text in Web Design Increases Conversions

When it comes to web design, most of us know that first impressions are critical. But what about the subtle, often ove...

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Are Modals In Web Design A UX Disaster?
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Are Modals In Web Design A UX Disaster?

If you are unfamiliar with the term, a modal is a dialogue window appearing when a visitor clicks on a hyperlink or hove...

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Personas: Finding imaginary friends for web designers
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Personas: Finding imaginary friends for web designers

One of the most common pieces of writing advice out there is “know your audience.” Choosing to appeal to either midd...

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6 types of digital affordance that impact your UX
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6 types of digital affordance that impact your UX

Affordance is a term originally coined by a psychologist, J.J. Gibson, in the 1970s. He defined it as the relationship b...

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5 Secrets for Creating Successful Mid-Level Pages
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5 Secrets for Creating Successful Mid-Level Pages

Designing mid-level feature pages is one of the hardest parts of building or revamping your website. How do you divide y...

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6 Tips for Posting Content Anonymously
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6 Tips for Posting Content Anonymously

Yes. Yes it should. There’s no doubt that there are terrible people in the world; but anonymity is a powerful tool for...

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8 Tips for Designing Awe-Inspiring Conversational Interfaces
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8 Tips for Designing Awe-Inspiring Conversational Interfaces

UX Design is almost synonymous with conversational interfaces, which are used left, right, and center from natural langu...

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To Hell With Subtle Design
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To Hell With Subtle Design

Don’t try to be so damn subtle in web design.Okay, let me explain that…About a year or so ago, I made a terrible mis...

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5 techniques for fine-tuning UX with color
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5 techniques for fine-tuning UX with color

Color is one of the key elements in any design system. On websites or in apps, color can be used in a variety of ways: s...

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7 Ways to Use Gamification in Marketing Campaigns
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7 Ways to Use Gamification in Marketing Campaigns

By 2025, the gamification market is expected to witness a massive 30.1% growth rate, with global sales revenue reaching ...

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How to design successful forms
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How to design successful forms

Web forms are the scourge of many a designer, and by extension, their clients.Forms play a vital role on any site becaus...

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How to perfect UX with design affordances
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How to perfect UX with design affordances

Affordances in design are important to usability and function. They’re one of the components of design that have to co...

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Learnability in UX Design
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Learnability in UX Design

Building a learnable website is much tougher than it sounds.One thinks one’s design is clear and comprehensible; howev...

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4 Times When it’s OK to Trick Users
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4 Times When it’s OK to Trick Users

Tricking people can be… well… tricky. The problem, at its most fundamental level, is that people only like to be tri...

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How directional cues maximize UX and boost conversions
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How directional cues maximize UX and boost conversions

If there’s a common question that web designers ask themselves, it’s usually: How can I improve user experience? Use...

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9 Ways to Design for Human Error
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9 Ways to Design for Human Error

The thing about human beings is that you can’t trust them with anything. Okay, maybe that’s a bit unkind. However, i...

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The Rise of 3D Web Design: Innovation or Just Another Flashy Distraction?
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The Rise of 3D Web Design: Innovation or Just Another Flashy Distraction?

The web is getting deeper—literally. Flat, static designs are starting to feel stale, and the rise of 3D elements and ...

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When UX Goes Bad (and How to Fix It)
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When UX Goes Bad (and How to Fix It)

Designing for user experiences is what all designers do. UX is often thought of as the preserve of app or web designers;...

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What does simplicity in UX design look like?
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What does simplicity in UX design look like?

For over a decade, designers have debated what constitutes simplicity in user experience design.As Robert Hoekman Jr. po...

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Enhancing Website Design with UX Writing
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Enhancing Website Design with UX Writing

Here’s the problem though: UX writers are not designers. No matter how many short sentences we write to succinctly com...

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10 Elements of Landing Pages That Convert
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10 Elements of Landing Pages That Convert

It’s easy to confuse what a landing page is because users “land” on many pages. When we talk about landing pages, ...

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The latest UX challenge: designing for personalization
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The latest UX challenge: designing for personalization

Users want individual experiences when they interact with devices. From geolocation tools to voice activation systems th...

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Thoughts on Designing for the Existence of Children
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Thoughts on Designing for the Existence of Children

Don’t get me wrong. I like children in the abstract. I believe they are the future, and so they should be protected an...

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Is Conversational UX the future of the web?
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Is Conversational UX the future of the web?

Contrary to the implication in the title, a conversational UX doesn’t have to be a literal conversation, the term refe...

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The 10 Foundational UX Principles Every Designer Should Know
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The 10 Foundational UX Principles Every Designer Should Know

If you’ve ever rage-closed an app because it wouldn’t let you “go back” or stared at a form that made you feel l...

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Microinteractions: Designing with Details
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Microinteractions: Designing with Details

“The best products do two things well: features and details. Features are what draw people to your product; details ar...

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4 simple ways to design killer call to action buttons
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4 simple ways to design killer call to action buttons

Call to action buttons that are easy to see and understand will make a huge difference to your client’s conversion rat...

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Spotify’s Secret Star Wars Easter Egg: The Hidden Lightsaber Feature
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Spotify’s Secret Star Wars Easter Egg: The Hidden Lightsaber Feature

A years-old Reddit post on Reddit has recently been rediscovered, sending Star Wars fans and Spotify users alike into a ...

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Telling Tales: How Storytelling Can Elevate Your Website
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Telling Tales: How Storytelling Can Elevate Your Website

Websites in particular can benefit by placing storytelling and narrative techniques at their heart: this allows an emoti...

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5 Pitfalls of User-Generated Content (And How to Avoid Them)
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5 Pitfalls of User-Generated Content (And How to Avoid Them)

It brings with it a host of benefits. UGC can greatly increase engagement with websites, as well as shareability and aut...

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9 Consumer Psychology Tactics to Improve Conversions
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9 Consumer Psychology Tactics to Improve Conversions

When it comes to first impressions, design is everything. From colors, copy on buy buttons, to the layout of a website.T...

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How Prevalent is Dark UX?
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How Prevalent is Dark UX?

Iconic comedy duo Mitchell and Webb once asked a very important question: “Are we the baddies?” Given that, at the t...

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10 Tips for Effective UX Writing
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10 Tips for Effective UX Writing

UX writing is an essential skill in developing an app or solving a UX problem for a client. UX writing is when we craft ...

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AI-Driven Personalization in Web Design: The Future or a UX Nightmare?
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AI-Driven Personalization in Web Design: The Future or a UX Nightmare?

Let’s talk about the AI takeover—at least, the one happening in web design. Everywhere you look, personalization is ...

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Intent-Based UI Is Replacing Navigation—Are We Designing Ourselves Out of the Interface?
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Intent-Based UI Is Replacing Navigation—Are We Designing Ourselves Out of the Interface?

We spent decades perfecting the art of navigation: breadcrumbs, sidebars, hamburger menus, sticky headers, site maps. We...

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3 Quick Tricks to Boost Customer Retention
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3 Quick Tricks to Boost Customer Retention

Acquiring a new customer is difficult, but retaining an existing one is even more challenging. Yet, statistics show that...

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How to Load Your Website With Social Proof
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How to Load Your Website With Social Proof

As the ultimate form of social proof, customer reviews are incredibly valuable to your clients’ companies.Around 95% o...

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The Micro-Conversion Controversy
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The Micro-Conversion Controversy

The UX design process is, in a word, complex. The discipline itself is a jam-packed intersection of contrasting fields, ...

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Santa’s High-Tech Holiday Logistics: A UX Fairy Tale
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Santa’s High-Tech Holiday Logistics: A UX Fairy Tale

It’s Christmas Eve, and Santa Claus is preparing for his busiest night of the year. But have you ever wondered how San...

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What Customer-First Web Design Looks Like
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What Customer-First Web Design Looks Like

Customer-first has been a buzzword for a few years now. In a nutshell, it’s easy to imagine what customer-first design...

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The UX case against the home button
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The UX case against the home button

For years, the “home” button has provided a compass rose, the north star, a navigator’s ability to regroup to the ...

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The UX of Sound: Designing Audio Experiences
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The UX of Sound: Designing Audio Experiences

For many of us, sound is an essential part of everyday living. Our day starts with a sound of alarm clock and ends with ...

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How Long is the Perfect Blog Post?
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How Long is the Perfect Blog Post?

There’s an old saying about dresses and speeches which rightly points out that both should be long enough to cover the...

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3 web design errors that just won’t die
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3 web design errors that just won’t die

Web design has come a long, long way since the 1990s, when things like GeoCities and AOL dominated the Internet. Design ...

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Reading minds: the psychology behind UX design
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Reading minds: the psychology behind UX design

If we were to gather a hundred different designers into one room and ask them one-by-one how they approach UX design, we...

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How to perfect first-time UX in apps
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How to perfect first-time UX in apps

Somehow, we’ve come to accept the notion that digital technology is the answer to all of life’s problems. That concl...

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Feedback Fatigue: Why AI Will Stop Asking for Your Opinion
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Feedback Fatigue: Why AI Will Stop Asking for Your Opinion

Let’s talk about the ancient art of the thumbs-up and thumbs-down — once the sacred, clumsy handshake between user a...

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How to avoid common UX traps
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How to avoid common UX traps

How many times have you been on a website, only to leave frustrated and annoyed at the experience you received during yo...

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Building trust with UX
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Building trust with UX

Trust occurs when our physical, emotional and logical responses combine into one confident, positive intuitive feeling. ...

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Your A/B Tests Are Lying to You! The Myth of Data Driven Design
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Your A/B Tests Are Lying to You! The Myth of Data Driven Design

A/B testing is supposed to be the ultimate weapon in data-driven design. Change a button color, tweak a headline, and le...

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The State of UX in 2025: What Designers Need to Know
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The State of UX in 2025: What Designers Need to Know

Every year, the UX Collective dives deep into what’s shaping the design world, and their 2025 State of UX report is ou...

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Case Study: Killer Marketing Can’t Overcome Poor UX
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Case Study: Killer Marketing Can’t Overcome Poor UX

In 2014, I was a busy, young software engineer working full-time for a tech company in London. On a quest to be hyper ef...

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The Death of the Double Click: How UX Finally Buried a Relic of the Desktop Era
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The Death of the Double Click: How UX Finally Buried a Relic of the Desktop Era

Let’s be honest: double-clicking is dead. And if it isn’t, it should be.What began as a clever way to differentiat...

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15 Psychology Principles Every Designer Should Know
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15 Psychology Principles Every Designer Should Know

So, really, you’re in the business of designing websites for your clients’ audiences.But how do you ensure you get i...

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9 proven ways to enhance UX with microcopy
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9 proven ways to enhance UX with microcopy

Two words of microcopy can double a site’s sales or lead conversion numbers.Microcopy is more than just verbs on butto...

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8 Steps to Using Live Streaming as Part of Your Content Strategy
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8 Steps to Using Live Streaming as Part of Your Content Strategy

Exposure. Engagement. Interaction. Trolls calling you horrible things in real time. You can have all of these buzzwords ...

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How to Create Better Error Alerts: A Guide to Improving User Experience
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How to Create Better Error Alerts: A Guide to Improving User Experience

Error alerts are a crucial part of any software or system, serving as the interface between a program and its user when ...

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6 Ways Innovative Navigation Enhances UX
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6 Ways Innovative Navigation Enhances UX

There are two aspects to designing navigation: How will the content be structured, and how will that structure be presen...

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How touch impacts UX
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How touch impacts UX

Like most people, I manipulate objects with my hands every minute of every day giving it little to no thought. I used my...

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15 Psychology Hacks that Boost UX
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15 Psychology Hacks that Boost UX

There loads of things that subconsciously sway our decision making everyday, subtle psychological influences working awa...

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10 Ways to Design Menus That Don’t Suck
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10 Ways to Design Menus That Don’t Suck

There are definite right and wrong ways to design navigation menus. This basic part of a website is often overlooked in ...

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7 UX Principles for Creating a Great Website
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7 UX Principles for Creating a Great Website

We spend a lot of time online reading news, navigating websites and using web apps. In some cases, our experience online...

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Key Psychological Principles in Web Design: A Deep Dive
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Key Psychological Principles in Web Design: A Deep Dive

Web design is not merely an exercise in aesthetics; it is a blend of art and science where psychology plays a crucial ro...

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Finding Your Way With Domain Mapping
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Finding Your Way With Domain Mapping

However, your domain branding strategy need not end there. Domain mapping offers an opportunity for web developers and o...

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The Death of the Click: How Scrolling Took Over the Web
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The Death of the Click: How Scrolling Took Over the Web

Remember clicking? That sharp, deliberate action where you made a choice, committed to a path, and opened the next door ...

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Ultimate UX Design Guide to SaaS On-Boarding, Part 1: Sign-up Forms
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Ultimate UX Design Guide to SaaS On-Boarding, Part 1: Sign-up Forms

SaaS Customer On-boarding is the process that users have to experience while initiating their journey as a customer on a...

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How to Balance Information Density in Web Design
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How to Balance Information Density in Web Design

Information density is the amount of information in the form of content that a site visitor is greeted with as soon as h...

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5 Ways to Design for a Local Audience
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5 Ways to Design for a Local Audience

Needless to say, global web design needs to be greatly simplified and neutralized in order to appeal to a broader audien...

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4 essential elements of successful UX design
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4 essential elements of successful UX design

When you consider the success stories of the internet age, you could be forgiven for believing that luck has been the de...

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6 Reasons to Adopt a Long-Form Content Strategy
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6 Reasons to Adopt a Long-Form Content Strategy

Recently I have encountered more and more people asking for one specific thing: words, and lots of them. No, truly, I me...

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Prototyping for the web with Framer
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Prototyping for the web with Framer

Framer is a really powerful tool that can prototype anything you can think of but if you take a look at Framer’s Galle...

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Designing for the 1%: Why Edge Cases Aren’t Optional
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Designing for the 1%: Why Edge Cases Aren’t Optional

Let’s talk about the other users. Not your typical, scroll-happy, ideal-case personas.I’m talking about the people...

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Psychology in Web Design: How to Use it Right
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Psychology in Web Design: How to Use it Right

We all know that psychology is a powerful tool. When used correctly, it can influence and persuade people to take action...

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5 psychology rules every UX designer must know
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5 psychology rules every UX designer must know

Experience-based design…if that’s how you define your work as a designer, it might be a good time to reevaluate your...

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12 UX rules every designer should know
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12 UX rules every designer should know

“User experience” is a broad term that gets bandied around at meetings and swapped with “user interface” as if t...

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11 Secrets of Actionable UX Reports
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11 Secrets of Actionable UX Reports

When designers and developers work on projects, they have a lot of questions: What do our users expect to see on this sc...

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8 Easy Ways To Ruin Your User Onboarding
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8 Easy Ways To Ruin Your User Onboarding

To understand why user onboarding is such an indispensable tool, we need to empathize with the people using our products...

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The Usability Myth: Users Don’t Really Know What They Want (and That’s Totally OK!)
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The Usability Myth: Users Don’t Really Know What They Want (and That’s Totally OK!)

If you’ve spent any time in UX design, you’ve probably heard it a thousand times: “Design for the user.” It’s ...

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Keeping UX simple with anticipatory design
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Keeping UX simple with anticipatory design

With web users increasingly time-strapped and suffering from information overload, there’s definitely a sense of relie...

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Dropbox Redesigns its UI for Better UX
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Dropbox Redesigns its UI for Better UX

Whenever you’re working with teams as a web designer, chances are that you’re using Google Drive, Evernote, or Dropb...

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How to solve the hamburger icon problem
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How to solve the hamburger icon problem

The hamburger icon—three little bars used to indicate a link to a menu—is one if the most controversial techniques o...

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UX in email design
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UX in email design

You spend weeks, months, maybe years, creating a product with an amazing UX. Doesn’t matter if it’s an app, a websit...

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