March 19, 2015 at 09:50Food Design Digest, February 2015
For almost five years now I have been publishing regular reviews of recent articles on the topic of interfaces, new tools and collections of patterns, interesting cases and historical stories. From the tapes of several hundred thematic subscriptions, approximately 5% of the publications worth publishing are selected, which are interesting to share. Previous materials: April 2010-January 2015 .
Interaction Design Best Practices - Mastering the Tangibles
UXPin cheerfully began the year with the release of a series of e-books. Fresh - about the design of interaction.
Non-blocking UI's with interface previews
Callum Hart about using the page loading indicator, which Facebook proposed several years ago - instead of a dull twist, the screen structure is shown.
Interface animation sample collections
I'm the Fold
An interesting experiment showing where the screen ends on different devices. You can clearly see the bunching around certain numbers. Continuing the topic:
Visual Design for White Labelled Products
Cale LeRoy from Cooper on product design features without preset branding, the so-called White Labelled Products. Branding is customized for each specific client. There are three approaches: 1) only the customer’s logo changes (co-branding); 2) full customization is available; 3) only a few predefined settings are available. The author recommends the last of them.
Carousel Usage Exploration On Mobile E-Commerce Websites
Kyle Peatt from Mobify conducted a detailed study on the use of carousels on mobile websites.
Design Details: Instagram for iOS
Brian Lovin continues to parse the interface patterns of various mobile applications.
Improve Validation Errors with Adaptive Messages
Baymard Institute on adaptive forms errors.
Links are broken. These three alternatives have improved our readers' reading experience
Sebastian Kersten about the problems of the classic format for placing links in the text (they lead the reader in the middle of the material) and several ways to solve them.
Testing Accordion Menu Designs & Iconography
A small test of the layout and various types of folding / unfolding accordion icons from Viget.
Little Data, Big Data and Design at LinkedIn
An interesting case study on the approach of the LinkedIn research team to analyze incoming user information. They combine data from multiple sources to understand behavior patterns. The article is available only by registration, but free.
Measuring Attitude Lift
Excerpts from Chapter 9 of Jeff Sauro’s new book, Customer Analytics for Dummies. He talks about Attitude Lift (changing user attitudes). They are asked to evaluate the attitude to the product before and after use and compare these indicators. If there is a decrease in the level of attitude after use, then the problem is with the interaction, or users had unrealistically high expectations from the brand or product.
Considering the Consideration Funnel
Chris Risdon writes about the complex processes of buying goods and services on the Internet, when the user can quit the checkout process for a more detailed study of the information, and not because there is something wrong with the interface.
Natasha Dow Schull - Addiction By Design
Design for addiction. As a design to achieve flow, the latest ergonomics and behavior management techniques can be effectively used for dark UX practices. Natasha Dow Schull talks great about the principles of design of slot machines in a casino.
The Paradox of Empathy
Scott Jenson on four types of empathy in design. Continuing the topic:
Designing For The Elderly: Ways Older People Use Digital Technology Differently
A very good overview of the nuances of working with older people from Ollie Campbell.
Design Features in Asia
The Ultimate Guide to Information Architecture
Explained cameron article on information architecture by Cameron Chapman.
Resonator
The release of Resonator, a new extension for Photoshop, that helps to collect, store and "cut" for developers icons and any other graphics, has been released. It supports iOS, Android, Windows Phone and retina. It will be useful to all mobile, some web and generally all those designers who are tired of the constant manual cutting of graphics for transmission to developers.
Designing For Wearables To Enhance Real-Life Experience
Jonathan Kohl's cool stuff on designing and designing smartwatch and bracelet apps. Many nuances of working with a physical device, contexts of its use, stories from practice. The second part of the article (there is no obvious navigation between the parts).
New to Sketch
New for Quartz Composer
Designer's Toolkit: Prototyping Tools
Emily Schwartzman has made an interactive version of her prototyping tool comparison table.
New for Apple Watch
New About Material Design
Things I've Learned About Sending Email, For Web Designers And Developers
An excellent Lee Munroe training tool for email newsletter designers.
New for Pixate
Publishing Tools
Mobile Prototyping With Proto.io An
overview of how to use Proto.io on Smashing Magazine.
New for Adobe Illustrator
Core Animator
A new tool for turning animations into native iOS code. Animations of characters, instructions, user interface elements, and even full scenes. Suitable for designers who want to create attractive animations and developers who are tired of transferring these animations from some kind of visualizer or prototyping tool into code. Supports Objective-C and Swift.
Precursor - Fast prototyping web app, makes collaboration easy
In the new year, new prototyping tools have not yet rocked very much, but it’s fresh. There is nothing special in the description, just to the heap.
How to weight data to make more balanced decisions
Jeff Sauro on custom research weighting methods.
Getting to Know Your Data Types
Jeff Sauro memo for categorizing user research data.
Don't use one way mirrors for UX research
Lisa Duddington shares her experience in usability labs. She writes about the shortcomings of the traditional layout of laboratories when using one-way mirrors. Such a trip is outdated; instead of mirrors, it is more convenient to use screens in the observer's room.
Field visits and user interviews: 7 frequently asked questions
David Travis about when to use field research and laboratory tests.
6 Voice of the Customer Tools That Can Save Your Business
Tools for collecting feedback from users.
New about card sorting
UserBrain
Testing your site with live people. You enter a link to your site, write a task, live and real users test your site, you receive video from testing-performance of tasks, ... profit!
OneTwoSplit OneTwoSplit
service for A / B testing application descriptions in the AppStore and Google Play.
How We Do It: Wargaming and the User Experience
About research at Wargaming.
Why you should be excited about CSS shapes
An excellent overview article about the possibilities of CSS shapes that allow you to make effective magazine typesetting with the flow of images around a complex mask. However, while support in browsers is weak.
Frontend.md Frontend.md
framework for creating live guidelines.
Web Typography
Work with color
CSS Devices
A pack of templates for smartphones and tablets made in pure CSS. They are available in different colors and orientations.
How CSS Animation Works
New for Framer
A Deep Dive Into Adobe Edge Reflow
A small tutorial on working with Reflow.
Designers: Start Coding With uilang
A beginner's guide to working with uilang.
Work with SVG
New scripts
Designer work in Swift
Designing For Print With CSS A
great tutorial by Rachel Andrew on how to use CSS to make printable versions of pages. Moreover, the possibilities are so vast that you can get a good book layout with all the features from the cover and content to footers and footnotes. A PDF script generator is also offered. Continuing the topic:
Build Your Own Product Hunt With Telescope And Meteor
How to create your Product Hunt on the Telescope platform.
Design and the Corporation - A Reply from Darrel Rhea
Darrel Rhea very intelligently describes the evolution of design departments in large companies. How and why they were needed at different periods in the development of the profession and the market.
UX Debt in the Enterprise: A Practical Approach
A very sensible case for using the concept of front-end debt to process a large line of products. The article is accompanied by a calculator in Excel.
Design is Valued. Now what?
Luke Wroblewski, it’s not enough to just hire a lot of good designers to create a great design. Need a change. For a company to become truly focused on design, the company itself must change, and designers must change.
Routines on Projects - Why They Deserve More Attention
About useful practices that develop a design team.
Radical Redesign or Incremental Change?
NN / g Hoa Loranger on the “big” redesign: “In most cases, it’s preferable to evolutionarily improve the product. A radical redesign is only shown if the product is so poor and neglected that it cannot be noticeably improved without a complete rework. ”
PJ McCormick - Leading Projects Through Danger
PJ McCormick on how Amazon's UX team works.
The Road Less Travelled
Performance by Mike Atherton at UX Cambridge 2014. He talked about combining brand strategy with UX and product strategy.
Defining User Experience Strategy
Continuation of Austin Govella's series of articles on the UX strategy. Part 5: choosing the right goals; and Part 6: targeting the team .
UX Recipe
Calculator of the cost of the design process as a whole.
UX Hiring Handbook (PDF)
Craig Morrison's short brochure on how to hire UX designers.
Head of Lamoda analytics: “Increasing conversion even by a percentage is a lot of money for us”
Cool interview with Igor Selitsky, head of analytics at Lamoda. A lot of interesting things about tracking user behavior in e-commerce.
Data-Informed Design: Three Data Stories
The third part of a series of publications by Pamela Pavliscak on working with analytics data in interface design.
It's Kind of Cheesy Being Green.
Interesting about the complex marketing decisions behind the green text messages in iOS.
The Guide to Minimum Viable Products
Russian translation of UXPin's MVP book. Continuing the topic:
Learn Design Principles
Memo website for key design principles. Other principles:
Product Design Unification Case Study: Mobile Web Framework
Published the story as an article on Smashing Magazine. The editorial process in the publication is, of course, hardcore - all iterations of revisions and improvements took about six months. But it turned out cool - now I know with what sweat and blood their level of quality of materials is achieved. Over time, there will be a continuation about content projects and the technical side. Russian version and publication for the BEM website .
Features of the UX-designer in the "iron" project
Features of work on the interface in the "iron" project on the example of "Simkomat". Ilya Alexandrov divided the article into two parts: about the features of the hardware and specific solutions and cases. It will be more interesting for practicing designers.
Designing Twitter Video
Paul Stamatiou on the design of the Twitter Video app for the iPhone.
Editorial CMS
Emotional Design Fail: Divorcing My Nest Thermostat
Kara Pernice from NN / g used the Nest thermostat for several years, but recently replaced it with a simpler model. In the article, she analyzes her experience in using the thermostat from initial admiration to ultimate disappointment, pointing out violations in the design of both the Nielsen heuristic and the principles of the emotional design of Donald Norman.
Accessibility Originates With UX - A BBC iPlayer Case Study
Case study on the BBC iPlayer in terms of accessibility. It shows well that compliance with basic guidelines is not enough and you need to check the design on living people.
Bloomberg Business' new look has made a splash - But don't just call it a redesign
A quick introduction to restarting the Bloomberg news site, one of the most powerful media redesigns of recent times. Joshua Topolsky, who had a hand in Engadget and The Verge, hit the publication in the summer of 2014 and influenced what the final result would be. They seem to have launched the updated policy section before it. No less bold design of their fairly strong design conference Bloomberg Business Week Design .
Unsolicited Redesigns
The Future of the Web Is 100 Years Old
The Nautilus article lists all the concepts of the Internet over the past 100 years, with a great focus on the idea of Paul Otlet. Interestingly, the problem of information overload, which was largely generated by industrial printing in the 19th century, was already being tried to solve.
Of Mice And Men
Another piece of information about keyset, the experimental Douglas Engelbart keyboard.
Time Travel by Book
Christina Wodtke uploaded her selection of books on information architecture, which she composed 10 years ago.
The Wolff Olins Report 2015
Explanatory report by Wolff Olins on the modern role and meaning of leaders in companies, as well as the importance of design thinking for them.
Forecasts for 2015
Автомобильные интерфейсы
On Meta-Design and Algorithmic Design Systems
Rune Madsen on the topic of algorithms that generate design and the new role of the designer in such a world.
Sorry, But Google Glass isn't Anywhere Close to Dead
For corporate customers, Google Glass glasses are actively supported and have good prospects in this narrow niche.
Skip a Beat Heart Rate Game Launch Trailer
Heart rate as part of the input method now in the consumer market. We expect an increase in the use of the algorithm, including for the treatment of functional disorders based on biofeedback at home in a playful way.
Pebble Time - Awesome Smartwatch, No Compromises
Pebble has announced Time, a new generation of its smartwatches. It’s not so interesting to talk about characteristics and usage scenarios; all platforms do the same thing, plus or minus.
What’s really interesting is the insanely cool animation orchestration done on color e-ink. Firstly, the approach itself with a smooth transformation of elements, when all the actions in the interface look like one big and connected animation. According to a similar model, material design works and this is a new level of complexity for designers. The Android bootloader, what John Schlemmer does , is a guideline for the near future. This is not a cheap cheat with springs that make a Michael Bay movie from the interface - half of Dribble is now given to these crafts.
Secondly, the fact that this is possible on electronic paper, which is not very much favored by top manufacturers. The first Pebble had ridiculous delays, but the new model produces 30 FPS - everything looks very, very smooth and effective. And while holding the battery for a week, and not dying by the beginning of the next day. They say the third YotaPhone will also use color e-ink. If they get something similar - we are waiting for the heyday of this technology, which suddenly turned out to be cool for design.
Fashion ecommerce - Are virtual fitting rooms the silver bullet?
An article about the use of virtual dressing rooms in the online sale of clothing. There are arguments for, there are moments casting doubt on the effectiveness of these decisions. In general, there is where to move. And the article can be read for general development and to see examples of fitting services.
New about virtual reality
Wearable electronics
Applied UX Strategy, part 2: The Product Designer
UXMatters published my second article in the UX strategy series on product designers. This is a significantly augmented and restructured version of a recent presentation on the topic . Russian version . Continuing the topic:
Review: Online UX Courses
Arun Joseph Martin conducts a comparative review of four website designs with online UX courses: All You Can Learn from UIE, Udemy, Lynda.com and SkillShare. Other tutorials:
Everyday IA
February 21 is the International Day of Information Architect. The article congratulations from Louis Rosenfeld. The theme of 2015 is the Architecture of Happiness.
Back Pocket Apps: Let's Reconsider the Wireframe
Golden Krishna writes The Best Interface is No Interface, a book about designing apps without a user interface. UXBooth published a chapter from it. Book site .
Designing Case Studies - Showcasing A Human-Centered Design Process
Senongo Akpem talks about creating good portfolio cases at Smashing Magazine. How to focus on the task and the result, rather than project artifacts. Continuing the topic:
The UX Reader: Book about the work of the MailChimp UX team The
translation of the UX Reader bookfrom the MailChimp team is a collection of articles from their mailing list. Part 2 .
Quickpanel: UX Certifications
Opinions of renowned experts on UX certification.
Ergonomist No. 39, February 2015 (PDF) The
latest issue of the Ergonomist Bulletin is dedicated to user interfaces.
Khan Academy Internships
Elizabeth Lin about her internship at Khan Academy.
Jonathan Shariat - Tragic Design
Jonathan Shariat writes the book “Tragic Design” about interfaces that kill.
Shopping Design Studios
How Paul Rand Pioneered The Era Of Design-Led Business
How Paul Rand made changes in design for large companies.
Why Design Needs Entrepreneurship (and Entrepreneurship Needs Design)
Christina Wodtke about her career when she moved from design to business and came back more experienced.
Jeffrey Veen: Next
Jeffrey Veen leaves Adobe for True Ventures as a design partner. Continuing the topic:
How Startups Valued At $ 1 Billion Or More Put Design First
Excerpt from WSJ's largest former startups study, which cites companies with a particular focus on design. The full version of the list .
New AMA Sessions
Why Samsung Design Stinks
Kevin Lee, former head of product strategy and UX at Samsung Design America, talks about the difference between Samsung and Apple's design approaches.
Fresh links can also be tracked in the same Facebook group . Thanks to everyone who also publishes links in it, especially Gennady Dragun, Pavel Skripkin, Dmitry Podluzhny, Anton Artemov, Denis Efremov and Evgeny Sokolov. More and more materials appear in reviews thanks to them.
A letter arrives once a month.
Patterns and Best Practices
Interaction Design Best Practices - Mastering the Tangibles
UXPin cheerfully began the year with the release of a series of e-books. Fresh - about the design of interaction.
Non-blocking UI's with interface previews
Callum Hart about using the page loading indicator, which Facebook proposed several years ago - instead of a dull twist, the screen structure is shown.
Interface animation sample collections
I'm the Fold
An interesting experiment showing where the screen ends on different devices. You can clearly see the bunching around certain numbers. Continuing the topic:
Visual Design for White Labelled Products
Cale LeRoy from Cooper on product design features without preset branding, the so-called White Labelled Products. Branding is customized for each specific client. There are three approaches: 1) only the customer’s logo changes (co-branding); 2) full customization is available; 3) only a few predefined settings are available. The author recommends the last of them.
Carousel Usage Exploration On Mobile E-Commerce Websites
Kyle Peatt from Mobify conducted a detailed study on the use of carousels on mobile websites.
Design Details: Instagram for iOS
Brian Lovin continues to parse the interface patterns of various mobile applications.
Improve Validation Errors with Adaptive Messages
Baymard Institute on adaptive forms errors.
Links are broken. These three alternatives have improved our readers' reading experience
Sebastian Kersten about the problems of the classic format for placing links in the text (they lead the reader in the middle of the material) and several ways to solve them.
Testing Accordion Menu Designs & Iconography
A small test of the layout and various types of folding / unfolding accordion icons from Viget.
User understanding
Little Data, Big Data and Design at LinkedIn
An interesting case study on the approach of the LinkedIn research team to analyze incoming user information. They combine data from multiple sources to understand behavior patterns. The article is available only by registration, but free.
Measuring Attitude Lift
Excerpts from Chapter 9 of Jeff Sauro’s new book, Customer Analytics for Dummies. He talks about Attitude Lift (changing user attitudes). They are asked to evaluate the attitude to the product before and after use and compare these indicators. If there is a decrease in the level of attitude after use, then the problem is with the interaction, or users had unrealistically high expectations from the brand or product.
Considering the Consideration Funnel
Chris Risdon writes about the complex processes of buying goods and services on the Internet, when the user can quit the checkout process for a more detailed study of the information, and not because there is something wrong with the interface.
Natasha Dow Schull - Addiction By Design
Design for addiction. As a design to achieve flow, the latest ergonomics and behavior management techniques can be effectively used for dark UX practices. Natasha Dow Schull talks great about the principles of design of slot machines in a casino.
The Paradox of Empathy
Scott Jenson on four types of empathy in design. Continuing the topic:
- Chapter “How to Listen Right” from Indy Young's new book Practical Empathy .
- Another excerpt from Indy Young's book on how to apply empathy to change within a company .
Designing For The Elderly: Ways Older People Use Digital Technology Differently
A very good overview of the nuances of working with older people from Ollie Campbell.
Design Features in Asia
- Kendra Schaefer on design features for the Chinese market .
- Analysis of the interface of the Japanese application for ordering sushi .
- Features of Japanese web design .
Information architecture, conceptual design, content strategy
The Ultimate Guide to Information Architecture
Explained cameron article on information architecture by Cameron Chapman.
Design and design of interface screens
Resonator
The release of Resonator, a new extension for Photoshop, that helps to collect, store and "cut" for developers icons and any other graphics, has been released. It supports iOS, Android, Windows Phone and retina. It will be useful to all mobile, some web and generally all those designers who are tired of the constant manual cutting of graphics for transmission to developers.
Designing For Wearables To Enhance Real-Life Experience
Jonathan Kohl's cool stuff on designing and designing smartwatch and bracelet apps. Many nuances of working with a physical device, contexts of its use, stories from practice. The second part of the article (there is no obvious navigation between the parts).
New to Sketch
- A review article with a template for designing mobile interfaces .
- Translations of the most popular articles and tutorials for Sketch in Russian .
- Collection of mouse cursors .
- 6 tips to speed up your work .
New for Quartz Composer
- The second version of Origami has been released . You can view prototypes on devices, export code, connect to layouts in Sketch and Photoshop, and much more.
Designer's Toolkit: Prototyping Tools
Emily Schwartzman has made an interactive version of her prototyping tool comparison table.
New for Apple Watch
- The story of the Ukrainian company ELEKS Software about creating a concept application for Tesla .
- Free templates from UI8 for Photoshop .
- An interesting way to preview applications when there is no device .
New About Material Design
Things I've Learned About Sending Email, For Web Designers And Developers
An excellent Lee Munroe training tool for email newsletter designers.
New for Pixate
- It appeared Pixate Studio , a separate application for the Mac. It costs $ 149 a year .
- Now you can write actions.
Publishing Tools
- Single Page Generator Blend .
- The creators of the Aesop plugin for Wordpress are launching a separate service for the long reads Story.AM .
- Vsevolod Puli instruction for creating long reads .
Mobile Prototyping With Proto.io An
overview of how to use Proto.io on Smashing Magazine.
New for Adobe Illustrator
Core Animator
A new tool for turning animations into native iOS code. Animations of characters, instructions, user interface elements, and even full scenes. Suitable for designers who want to create attractive animations and developers who are tired of transferring these animations from some kind of visualizer or prototyping tool into code. Supports Objective-C and Swift.
Precursor - Fast prototyping web app, makes collaboration easy
In the new year, new prototyping tools have not yet rocked very much, but it’s fresh. There is nothing special in the description, just to the heap.
User research and testing, analytics
How to weight data to make more balanced decisions
Jeff Sauro on custom research weighting methods.
Getting to Know Your Data Types
Jeff Sauro memo for categorizing user research data.
Don't use one way mirrors for UX research
Lisa Duddington shares her experience in usability labs. She writes about the shortcomings of the traditional layout of laboratories when using one-way mirrors. Such a trip is outdated; instead of mirrors, it is more convenient to use screens in the observer's room.
Field visits and user interviews: 7 frequently asked questions
David Travis about when to use field research and laboratory tests.
6 Voice of the Customer Tools That Can Save Your Business
Tools for collecting feedback from users.
New about card sorting
- Case tree testing (tree trsting) .
- Continuation of the previous article . Using open card sorting after testing trees.
- Analysis of large-scale remote card sorting with a large number of participants (97 tags, 37 categories, 172 participants) and subsequent data analysis .
UserBrain
Testing your site with live people. You enter a link to your site, write a task, live and real users test your site, you receive video from testing-performance of tasks, ... profit!
OneTwoSplit OneTwoSplit
service for A / B testing application descriptions in the AppStore and Google Play.
How We Do It: Wargaming and the User Experience
About research at Wargaming.
Visual programming and design in the browser
Why you should be excited about CSS shapes
An excellent overview article about the possibilities of CSS shapes that allow you to make effective magazine typesetting with the flow of images around a complex mask. However, while support in browsers is weak.
Frontend.md Frontend.md
framework for creating live guidelines.
Web Typography
- A script for installing all fonts from Google Web Fonts on a Mac .
- Nick Sherman parses the current state of responsive fonts . General principles were described in the early CSS specifications, but they almost never came to life. At the same time, tools are actively developing that allow you to simulate various styles on the fly. This will give designers more flexibility, plus will save on the weight of downloaded files.
Work with color
- CSS Gradient Generator .
- A simple online tool for checking color contrast critical for accessibility .
CSS Devices
A pack of templates for smartphones and tablets made in pure CSS. They are available in different colors and orientations.
How CSS Animation Works
New for Framer
A Deep Dive Into Adobe Edge Reflow
A small tutorial on working with Reflow.
Designers: Start Coding With uilang
A beginner's guide to working with uilang.
Work with SVG
New scripts
- Library of content for easy substitution during a scroll is "abroad" in the iOS / OS the X .
- Beautifully designed CSS tutorial . Reading is not as boring as the W3C. It will be useful for designers who want to learn how to prototype
- Comparison of lazy loading scripts and a better option .
- The effect of radiance on the button .
- Designer animated icons .
- An example of effects for visualizing feedback after a click .
- Script for bouncing navigation .
- Animation of adding items to the list .
- Great jokes based on CSS syntax .
- Script side navigation .
- Strange and not the fact that practical, but funny date picker control .
- A cool experiment to create a 3D environment using HTML .
- A script for autocomplete input fields .
- Animated text via SVG .
- CSS textured text .
- A cool visual reference calculator for various units of measure in CSS .
- Transformation of search icons on SVG and JavaScript .
- Animation of rendering polygonal illustrations in SVG and JavaScript .
- It makes no sense, but funny - the animation of the address bar in the browser .
- Using the D3 Infographic Library with flexbox .
- Another pack of button animations .
- Several scripts for the accurate operation of drop-down menus that do not run away from the mouse cursor .
Designer work in Swift
- Meng To is about the work of designers at Swift .
- A library from Meng To that makes it easy to work with animations in Swift .
Designing For Print With CSS A
great tutorial by Rachel Andrew on how to use CSS to make printable versions of pages. Moreover, the possibilities are so vast that you can get a good book layout with all the features from the cover and content to footers and footnotes. A PDF script generator is also offered. Continuing the topic:
Build Your Own Product Hunt With Telescope And Meteor
How to create your Product Hunt on the Telescope platform.
Management of front-end projects, processes and teams
Design and the Corporation - A Reply from Darrel Rhea
Darrel Rhea very intelligently describes the evolution of design departments in large companies. How and why they were needed at different periods in the development of the profession and the market.
UX Debt in the Enterprise: A Practical Approach
A very sensible case for using the concept of front-end debt to process a large line of products. The article is accompanied by a calculator in Excel.
Design is Valued. Now what?
Luke Wroblewski, it’s not enough to just hire a lot of good designers to create a great design. Need a change. For a company to become truly focused on design, the company itself must change, and designers must change.
Routines on Projects - Why They Deserve More Attention
About useful practices that develop a design team.
Radical Redesign or Incremental Change?
NN / g Hoa Loranger on the “big” redesign: “In most cases, it’s preferable to evolutionarily improve the product. A radical redesign is only shown if the product is so poor and neglected that it cannot be noticeably improved without a complete rework. ”
PJ McCormick - Leading Projects Through Danger
PJ McCormick on how Amazon's UX team works.
The Road Less Travelled
Performance by Mike Atherton at UX Cambridge 2014. He talked about combining brand strategy with UX and product strategy.
Defining User Experience Strategy
Continuation of Austin Govella's series of articles on the UX strategy. Part 5: choosing the right goals; and Part 6: targeting the team .
UX Recipe
Calculator of the cost of the design process as a whole.
UX Hiring Handbook (PDF)
Craig Morrison's short brochure on how to hire UX designers.
Product Management and Analytics
Head of Lamoda analytics: “Increasing conversion even by a percentage is a lot of money for us”
Cool interview with Igor Selitsky, head of analytics at Lamoda. A lot of interesting things about tracking user behavior in e-commerce.
Data-Informed Design: Three Data Stories
The third part of a series of publications by Pamela Pavliscak on working with analytics data in interface design.
It's Kind of Cheesy Being Green.
Interesting about the complex marketing decisions behind the green text messages in iOS.
The Guide to Minimum Viable Products
Russian translation of UXPin's MVP book. Continuing the topic:
Methodologies, Procedures, Standards
Learn Design Principles
Memo website for key design principles. Other principles:
Cases
Product Design Unification Case Study: Mobile Web Framework
Published the story as an article on Smashing Magazine. The editorial process in the publication is, of course, hardcore - all iterations of revisions and improvements took about six months. But it turned out cool - now I know with what sweat and blood their level of quality of materials is achieved. Over time, there will be a continuation about content projects and the technical side. Russian version and publication for the BEM website .
Features of the UX-designer in the "iron" project
Features of work on the interface in the "iron" project on the example of "Simkomat". Ilya Alexandrov divided the article into two parts: about the features of the hardware and specific solutions and cases. It will be more interesting for practicing designers.
Designing Twitter Video
Paul Stamatiou on the design of the Twitter Video app for the iPhone.
Editorial CMS
Emotional Design Fail: Divorcing My Nest Thermostat
Kara Pernice from NN / g used the Nest thermostat for several years, but recently replaced it with a simpler model. In the article, she analyzes her experience in using the thermostat from initial admiration to ultimate disappointment, pointing out violations in the design of both the Nielsen heuristic and the principles of the emotional design of Donald Norman.
Accessibility Originates With UX - A BBC iPlayer Case Study
Case study on the BBC iPlayer in terms of accessibility. It shows well that compliance with basic guidelines is not enough and you need to check the design on living people.
Bloomberg Business' new look has made a splash - But don't just call it a redesign
A quick introduction to restarting the Bloomberg news site, one of the most powerful media redesigns of recent times. Joshua Topolsky, who had a hand in Engadget and The Verge, hit the publication in the summer of 2014 and influenced what the final result would be. They seem to have launched the updated policy section before it. No less bold design of their fairly strong design conference Bloomberg Business Week Design .
Unsolicited Redesigns
History
The Future of the Web Is 100 Years Old
The Nautilus article lists all the concepts of the Internet over the past 100 years, with a great focus on the idea of Paul Otlet. Interestingly, the problem of information overload, which was largely generated by industrial printing in the 19th century, was already being tried to solve.
Of Mice And Men
Another piece of information about keyset, the experimental Douglas Engelbart keyboard.
Time Travel by Book
Christina Wodtke uploaded her selection of books on information architecture, which she composed 10 years ago.
Trends
The Wolff Olins Report 2015
Explanatory report by Wolff Olins on the modern role and meaning of leaders in companies, as well as the importance of design thinking for them.
Forecasts for 2015
Автомобильные интерфейсы
- Илья Александров написал обзор перспектинвых интерфейсных решений в автомобильной индустрии.
- Обзор приборных панелей современных авто.
- Студия Raureif о том, смогут ли Android Auto и Apple CarPlay поменять не самый современный UX автомобилей.
- Инструмент для создания интерфейсов под новую платформу Nvidia Drive.
On Meta-Design and Algorithmic Design Systems
Rune Madsen on the topic of algorithms that generate design and the new role of the designer in such a world.
Sorry, But Google Glass isn't Anywhere Close to Dead
For corporate customers, Google Glass glasses are actively supported and have good prospects in this narrow niche.
Skip a Beat Heart Rate Game Launch Trailer
Heart rate as part of the input method now in the consumer market. We expect an increase in the use of the algorithm, including for the treatment of functional disorders based on biofeedback at home in a playful way.
Pebble Time - Awesome Smartwatch, No Compromises
Pebble has announced Time, a new generation of its smartwatches. It’s not so interesting to talk about characteristics and usage scenarios; all platforms do the same thing, plus or minus.
What’s really interesting is the insanely cool animation orchestration done on color e-ink. Firstly, the approach itself with a smooth transformation of elements, when all the actions in the interface look like one big and connected animation. According to a similar model, material design works and this is a new level of complexity for designers. The Android bootloader, what John Schlemmer does , is a guideline for the near future. This is not a cheap cheat with springs that make a Michael Bay movie from the interface - half of Dribble is now given to these crafts.
Secondly, the fact that this is possible on electronic paper, which is not very much favored by top manufacturers. The first Pebble had ridiculous delays, but the new model produces 30 FPS - everything looks very, very smooth and effective. And while holding the battery for a week, and not dying by the beginning of the next day. They say the third YotaPhone will also use color e-ink. If they get something similar - we are waiting for the heyday of this technology, which suddenly turned out to be cool for design.
Fashion ecommerce - Are virtual fitting rooms the silver bullet?
An article about the use of virtual dressing rooms in the online sale of clothing. There are arguments for, there are moments casting doubt on the effectiveness of these decisions. In general, there is where to move. And the article can be read for general development and to see examples of fitting services.
New about virtual reality
- The story of one of the first mass commercial products of the 90s, Virtuality .
- Explanatory memo from Fast Co Design on the current state of virtual and augmented reality .
Wearable electronics
- A good collection of examples of really useful wearable devices in medicine .
- Wearable social network .
For general and professional development
Applied UX Strategy, part 2: The Product Designer
UXMatters published my second article in the UX strategy series on product designers. This is a significantly augmented and restructured version of a recent presentation on the topic . Russian version . Continuing the topic:
- Cemre Güngör about the difference between the work of a product designer in a startup and a large product company . It was part of Branch, bought by Facebook.
- A very correct story about the reformation of processing while improving the skills of designers in the team .
Review: Online UX Courses
Arun Joseph Martin conducts a comparative review of four website designs with online UX courses: All You Can Learn from UIE, Udemy, Lynda.com and SkillShare. Other tutorials:
Everyday IA
February 21 is the International Day of Information Architect. The article congratulations from Louis Rosenfeld. The theme of 2015 is the Architecture of Happiness.
Back Pocket Apps: Let's Reconsider the Wireframe
Golden Krishna writes The Best Interface is No Interface, a book about designing apps without a user interface. UXBooth published a chapter from it. Book site .
Designing Case Studies - Showcasing A Human-Centered Design Process
Senongo Akpem talks about creating good portfolio cases at Smashing Magazine. How to focus on the task and the result, rather than project artifacts. Continuing the topic:
The UX Reader: Book about the work of the MailChimp UX team The
translation of the UX Reader bookfrom the MailChimp team is a collection of articles from their mailing list. Part 2 .
Quickpanel: UX Certifications
Opinions of renowned experts on UX certification.
Ergonomist No. 39, February 2015 (PDF) The
latest issue of the Ergonomist Bulletin is dedicated to user interfaces.
Khan Academy Internships
Elizabeth Lin about her internship at Khan Academy.
Jonathan Shariat - Tragic Design
Jonathan Shariat writes the book “Tragic Design” about interfaces that kill.
People and companies in the industry
Shopping Design Studios
- Eric Portelance of the main lessons of work + Lax Teehan .
- Another article on the development of design teams in corporations .
- Tobias van Schneider on the mental stagnation of the traditional model of design agencies .
How Paul Rand Pioneered The Era Of Design-Led Business
How Paul Rand made changes in design for large companies.
Why Design Needs Entrepreneurship (and Entrepreneurship Needs Design)
Christina Wodtke about her career when she moved from design to business and came back more experienced.
Jeffrey Veen: Next
Jeffrey Veen leaves Adobe for True Ventures as a design partner. Continuing the topic:
How Startups Valued At $ 1 Billion Or More Put Design First
Excerpt from WSJ's largest former startups study, which cites companies with a particular focus on design. The full version of the list .
New AMA Sessions
Why Samsung Design Stinks
Kevin Lee, former head of product strategy and UX at Samsung Design America, talks about the difference between Samsung and Apple's design approaches.
Fresh links can also be tracked in the same Facebook group . Thanks to everyone who also publishes links in it, especially Gennady Dragun, Pavel Skripkin, Dmitry Podluzhny, Anton Artemov, Denis Efremov and Evgeny Sokolov. More and more materials appear in reviews thanks to them.
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