October 9, 2017 at 11:10Food Design Digest, September 2017
For seven 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-August 2017 .
What Factors Contribute to Form Submission Rates?
Aytekin Tank collected statistics on their JotForm product and showed how the behavior of users on the desktop and mobile is different, and in different industries. We select sounds for a non-gaming application Roman Zimaryov gives advice on working with sound in interfaces. How to create, where to use, when to avoid.
Game Design: When the Least Intuitive Becomes The Most Intuitive
Jorge Hurtado from Habitat Games shows an interesting pattern for interacting with the iPad. When playing poker on the same tablet, players cover the screen with their hands, and the touch screen displays the cards after that.
User Experience Benchmarks for Hotel Websites
Jeff Sauro conducted a comparative test of the sites of several large hotel chains. The full report is paid, but the article contains key conclusions about typical interface problems.
Mobile Tables - Comparisons and Other Data Tables
Amy Schade of the Nielsen / Norman Group lists techniques for presenting complex tables on mobile.
The Ultimate Guide to Designing Activity Feeds
An overview of how to design update feeds on social networks and other products.
UX for the Industrial Environment, Part 2
Jon Walter describes good patterns for designing industrial interfaces.
Dark patterns
Baymard institute
iPhone X
Design guidelines for the iPhone X with a new screen in which the top bar for the status bar is only partially available. A new screen resolution was added - 1125 × 2436 (@ 3x multiplier, the physical width has not changed relative to a regular iPhone). IOS 11 was also released in September, so there were a lot of useful materials for designers:
Rambler UI - Components
Design System Rambler & Co. Design System Features, Step-by-Step Nathan Curtis continues to describe his vision of the workflow for developing a design system. Standard project management practices applied to the platform. Continuing the topic:
Building a design system for HealthCare.gov
Sawyer Hollenshead talks about the architecture of the HealthCare.gov design system . They have an interesting solution with a grid that is distributed through an NPM package . Other examples and tools:
Microsoft Fluent Design System
Material design
Customer struggles vs. Solution struggles
Alan Klement writes about the difference between the user's life problem and his problems in working with a specific product. This is an important nuance in the technique he promotes Jobs to Be Done.
Counterfeit or Credible? UX Design for Authenticity in China
Aurora Harley talks about the results of a user survey in China on online shopping trust. The article provides basic expectations.
Why Human-Centered Design Needs a Visual Storyteller, and How I Became One
Edward Abbott from Capital One shows how life sketching helps a team better focus their team on user issues.
Progressively Elaborated Users
Scott Sehlhorst says that at the start of work on a product you often have to compromise - understanding the user is important, but a full-fledged study takes a decent amount of time and effort, while the product hypothesis itself may turn out to be false. He offers an approach in which the understanding of users begins with temporary characters, and then is gradually refined.
Sketch
Pixelmator Pro
Pixelmator launches a professional version of the tool - a full-fledged graphical editor that can partially replace Photoshop.
After effects
Figma
Gravit designer
Marvel
Subform
IconFinder Icon Editor
A popular icon search service, Iconfinder, launches an online editor with which you can slightly tweak the icon before downloading.
Pastel - Build better websites with live sticky-note feedback
Another tool for collaboratively commenting on website design.
Design tools are running out of track
Colm Tuite ponders on the topic of modern tools for designers - like many others, he criticizes their reference to creating pictures. True, references to developers are slightly naive - often they have no less chaos.
The Unstuck Map A
map of user and market research methods from Nikkel Blaase of Xing. A very useful reminder that helps you select it step by step for the current problem in the product. Doing Research with People Who Are Not Users - Consultation Caroline Jarrett and Naintara Land talk about the practice of communicating with domain experts before conducting user research, which is widely used in Gov.uk. How to Determine Task Completion Jeff Sauro talks about how you can track a user's progress in moderated and unmoderated studies. Going global with international research
Charlotte Clancy and her Deliveroo user research team colleagues share some interesting stories from user experiences in other countries. Useful tips on some methods.
Generating a Large Return on Social-Media Experiences
Simon Norris and Peter Kay talk about Nomensa's approach to researching social media relationships and the conclusions they make for the product.
Wrangling Difficult Usability Test Participants
Jim Ross gives tips on working with complex respondents during user research. He lists a dozen behavior problems.
From Research Goals to Usability-Testing Scenarios - A 7-Step Method
Susan Farrell describes a step-by-step Nielsen / Norman Group scripting tutorial for usability testing.
Compositor - Tools & Services for Designers, Developers, & Creatives
An interesting experimental set of online tools for designers. One of them allows you to build a site based on your own design system, which can be greatly customized. A small video of the work . CSS Support Guide for Email Clients from Campaign Monitor Campaign Monitor updated their CSS support guide for popular email clients. What has changed . XRespond - Virtual Device Lab Another online service for quickly checking responsive sites at different resolutions. Its creator Indrek Paas talks about why he launched it . Yes, That Web Project Should Be a PWA
Aaron Gustafson Progressive Web Apps Overview.
The State of the Web
Karolina Szczur brought together relevant tips on optimizing site performance. Images, fonts, scripts. Continuing the topic:
Webflow
CSS Grid and Flexbox
Web Typography
Building UX Teams at Scale - Inside Atlassian's Bespoke Hiring Process
A fairly detailed and capacious story about how Atlassian design teams work. They also write about the hiring process. Other stories about design teams:
What to expect from PMs
Julie Zhuo helps designers get in touch with product managers. She analyzes typical problems of mutual understanding and ways to solve them. Part 2 . Reflections on design management Ian Schoen described his experience as a trainee curator at Salesforce. The result was a sensible reminder for both. On Becoming a UX Manager - New Skills, Requirements, and Rewards Jerrod Larson did a good job of describing the key skills and responsibilities of a design manager.
OKR Examples - How to write Objectives and Key results?
A gorgeous collection of OKR examples for different teams and products from Weekdone to help guide them.
Klement - Ulwick Debate on Desired Outcomes and the Statistical Validity of Outcome Driven Innovation
Alan Klement reviewed his many years of dispute with Anthony Ulwick about his Outcome-Driven Innovation concept. Alan considers the calculation method to be unscientific, Anthony proves his point.
Why Design Thinking in Business Needs a Rethink
Martin Kupp, Jamie Anderson and Jörg Reckhenrich talk about the challenges that classic organizations face in implementing design thinking practices. The process and cultural features of such companies contradict many of the iterative collaboration frameworks, so it is important to solve them in order to avoid failure.
Launching Creative Market - Our Playbook for Kickstarting a Marketplace
Creative Market founder Aaron Epstein shares instructions on launching a template store. A good description of the launch plan, the initial hypotheses and those that are confirmed.
Vlad Golovach - Design Culture 2.0
The second edition of Vlad Golovach’s gorgeous book “Design Culture” has been released. Vlad spent a lot of time reading books on the history of design as a profession and cultural phenomenon. This in itself is fascinating, and as applied to its industry, it also helps to get rid of many stamps and cargo cults that arise due to professional mythology. I managed to read only Adriana Forti and a couple of books on the topic, so thanks to the “Design Culture” you can cut corners a bit and cover much more.
In the second edition, the focus has shifted from history to how the design culture affects the relationship between the designer and the customer. Although the terms are slightly confusing, the very idea of highlighting a worldview (to know what is good) and methods / practices / habits (do not forget to do well). The topic of creating a design culture in companies is one of the most relevant in recent years, and Vlad has an interesting approach from the theoretical side.
In general, if you did not read the first edition, you missed a lot and the new version of the book will greatly expand your horizons. If you read - the second edition adds a point of practical application of these ideas.
Haters gonna hate - What we can learn from Facebook's 2006 news feed redesign
Mike Frederick Ziethlow recalls the epochal launch of the Facebook news feed in 2006, which by external attributes looked like a complete failure - 700 thousand users signed a petition against it, about 5% of the audience at that time. But the company understood what it was doing and saw the metrics, so that it was waiting for a wave of negativity, and the insane growth of the user base and profits suggests that it was right. Although it is important to understand that the key here is not suicidal obstinacy, but an understanding of why the redesign is being done and how to understand its effectiveness.
Brandmark
Algorithmic design enthusiast Jack Qiao has launched Brandmark's comprehensive design service for small businesses. As well as Logojoy, it helps to choose a logo and shows examples of its use. But Brandmark went further and builds the UI Kit in code using a corporate identity. The principles of the logo generator and font pairs . Jack also launchedBrandmark's logo quality and uniqueness analyzer and a reducer for them . Continuing the topic:
Audio Signifiers for Voice Interaction
Kathryn Whitenton from Nielsen / Norman provides many useful tips for designing and testing voice interfaces. Continuing the topic:
Top Trends in the Gartner Hype Cycle for Emerging Technologies, 2017
In August, a fresh Gartner hot technology curve came out. Continuing the topic:
Jono Yuen - FUI: How to Design User Interfaces for Film and Games: Featuring tips and advice from artists that worked on: Minority Report, The Avengers, Star Wars, The Dark Tower, Black Mirror and more
A book on movie interfaces from Jono has been released Yuen, creator of HUDs & GUIs , one of the main related sites.
Smart watches and bracelets
Virtual reality
Car interfaces
Fast Co Design Innovation by Design Awards 2017
The most interesting products and experiments of 2017 in terms of design according to Fast Co Design.
Mentor Forces
Simon Boboshko, along with his comrades, launched a small service that allows you to get advice from a professional designer on the price of a cup of coffee. The service is suitable for young designers who need to understand what is wrong with their layout, get advice or art direction of the project as a whole. And also for customers who need an independent evaluation of the work of the contractor. Briefbox - Practice briefs, resources & skill development for designers The service helps novice designers pump skills - you can download briefs for various tasks and do it in your free time. Designer's Self-Checklist - What kind of designer are you or want to become? Great checklist for product designer from Geunbae "GB" Lee from Facebook.
Launching Your Design Career - Which Type Of Education Is Best For You?
Alec McGuffey compares in sufficient detail the different ways to get a design education: university programs, short-term courses, internships, online courses.
Top Online Graphic Design Courses
Comparative collection of online interface design courses.
Baymard Institute
Bamard Research Launches Certification of Ecommerce Interface Design Specialists
Does HCI scale? Scale hacking and the relevance of HCI
Barry Brown, Susanne Bødker and Kristina Höök reflect on how the profession can evolve in an era of multi-channel interaction and constantly changing products, when old methods are not always suitable.
Roundups - Curated collection of newsletters & roundups for designers
A selection of product design feeds.
Readymag - How Russian designers created an Internet publishing tool that is used around the world.
History of the creation of Readymag, a domestic publishing tool and interviews with its creators. Russian augmented reality - as an MAI graduate became a Google RBC visionary, they spoke about the career history of Ivan Pupyrev, who managed to make many interesting projects for Sony, Disney and Google. He combines the skills of an inventor and a businessman.
UX Week 2017
Conference UX Week 2017 took place from August 29 to September 1 in San Francisco, USA. Browse performances with all videos.
Fresh links can also be tracked in the same Facebook group or receive once a month by mail . Thanks to everyone who also publishes links in it, especially Gennady Dragun, Pavel Skripkin, Dmitry Podluzhny, Anton Artemov, Denis Efremov, Alexei Kopylov, Taras Brizitsky, Evgeny Sokolov and Anton Oleinik. More and more materials appear in reviews thanks to them.
Patterns and best practices
What Factors Contribute to Form Submission Rates?
Aytekin Tank collected statistics on their JotForm product and showed how the behavior of users on the desktop and mobile is different, and in different industries. We select sounds for a non-gaming application Roman Zimaryov gives advice on working with sound in interfaces. How to create, where to use, when to avoid.
Game Design: When the Least Intuitive Becomes The Most Intuitive
Jorge Hurtado from Habitat Games shows an interesting pattern for interacting with the iPad. When playing poker on the same tablet, players cover the screen with their hands, and the touch screen displays the cards after that.
User Experience Benchmarks for Hotel Websites
Jeff Sauro conducted a comparative test of the sites of several large hotel chains. The full report is paid, but the article contains key conclusions about typical interface problems.
Mobile Tables - Comparisons and Other Data Tables
Amy Schade of the Nielsen / Norman Group lists techniques for presenting complex tables on mobile.
The Ultimate Guide to Designing Activity Feeds
An overview of how to design update feeds on social networks and other products.
UX for the Industrial Environment, Part 2
Jon Walter describes good patterns for designing industrial interfaces.
Dark patterns
- Roman Cheplyak made out the dark patterns that Booking.com uses - one of the champions in this matter.
Baymard institute
- Baymard summarized the findings and recommendations from their latest articles and listed 19 tips for improving online store interfaces .
Design systems and guidelines
iPhone X
Design guidelines for the iPhone X with a new screen in which the top bar for the status bar is only partially available. A new screen resolution was added - 1125 × 2436 (@ 3x multiplier, the physical width has not changed relative to a regular iPhone). IOS 11 was also released in September, so there were a lot of useful materials for designers:
- Overview of the main innovations of iOS 11 with links to specific guidelines.
- Guidelines for icons have been updated . Outline icons are now illegal, so you no longer have to make a separate set for Android and iOS.
- IPhone X template for Photoshop by Michael Flarup .
- The iPhone X template for Sketch and Photoshop by Ruslan Latypov .
- Features of application development for the X the iPhone .
- How to crutch the layout of mobile sites for a crutch solution with a "limitless" iPhoneX . A rather sad example of a return to basics is "optimized for viewing in Netscape Navigator."
- Ryan Lau details the differences in screen design and iOS 11 apps . Judging by the volume of small problems, there are problems with the design system at the technological level.
- IOS 11 templates for Sketch from Great Simple Studio .
Rambler UI - Components
Design System Rambler & Co. Design System Features, Step-by-Step Nathan Curtis continues to describe his vision of the workflow for developing a design system. Standard project management practices applied to the platform. Continuing the topic:
- Nathan Curtis gives tips on organizing the process of incorporating new components into a design system . In what cases they need to be added, how to build a process.
Building a design system for HealthCare.gov
Sawyer Hollenshead talks about the architecture of the HealthCare.gov design system . They have an interesting solution with a grid that is distributed through an NPM package . Other examples and tools:
- Presentation by Liv Madsen of Eden Spiekermann on design systems . The presentation itself is basic, but the interest of classic branding agencies to the topic is indicative.
- Design system of the main Finnish mobile operator Elisa .
- Northstar, another IBM design system .
- Modulz framework for creating design systems from Colm Tuite.
- Design system of the European railway company Eurostar .
- Design system Trello Nachos .
- Sergey Nikishkin spoke about the Acronis design system . The first part talks more about the UI Kit device, but shows a link to the component library on Angular.
Microsoft Fluent Design System
- Microsoft's Cara Tyler talks about how they created an experimental weather application for HoloLens based on the visual Fluent Design language, which also adapts to familiar interfaces .
- Microsoft's Mike Jacobs talks about how Fluent Design uses a physical description of light as one of its key principles . A good example in the treasury of poetization of the main installations of a single design.
Material design
- The best Android apps of 2017 according to the Google design team.
User understanding
Customer struggles vs. Solution struggles
Alan Klement writes about the difference between the user's life problem and his problems in working with a specific product. This is an important nuance in the technique he promotes Jobs to Be Done.
Counterfeit or Credible? UX Design for Authenticity in China
Aurora Harley talks about the results of a user survey in China on online shopping trust. The article provides basic expectations.
Why Human-Centered Design Needs a Visual Storyteller, and How I Became One
Edward Abbott from Capital One shows how life sketching helps a team better focus their team on user issues.
Progressively Elaborated Users
Scott Sehlhorst says that at the start of work on a product you often have to compromise - understanding the user is important, but a full-fledged study takes a decent amount of time and effort, while the product hypothesis itself may turn out to be false. He offers an approach in which the understanding of users begins with temporary characters, and then is gradually refined.
Design and design of interface screens
Sketch
- The Alembic plugin extracts a color palette from a photograph .
- The Sketch Exchanger plugin converts Sketch layouts to JSON and vice versa .
- Nice UI Kit by Jan Losert with smart character organization .
Pixelmator Pro
Pixelmator launches a professional version of the tool - a full-fledged graphical editor that can partially replace Photoshop.
After effects
- A selection of training materials for working with After Effects from the Ueno design studio , which does a lot of bright work.
- Juan F. Mena has adapted Bodymovin 'plugin to work with Framer . A story about how and why .
Figma
Gravit designer
- Version 3.2 was released with catching updates , including symbols .
Marvel
- We launched a tool for parsing and documentation of Handoff interfaces , its analogue of Zeplin.
Subform
- Subform launched an open beta . True, it costs $ 25 a month - to take money slightly over the edge for a beta of a new unknown product.
IconFinder Icon Editor
A popular icon search service, Iconfinder, launches an online editor with which you can slightly tweak the icon before downloading.
Pastel - Build better websites with live sticky-note feedback
Another tool for collaboratively commenting on website design.
Design tools are running out of track
Colm Tuite ponders on the topic of modern tools for designers - like many others, he criticizes their reference to creating pictures. True, references to developers are slightly naive - often they have no less chaos.
User research and testing, analytics
The Unstuck Map A
map of user and market research methods from Nikkel Blaase of Xing. A very useful reminder that helps you select it step by step for the current problem in the product. Doing Research with People Who Are Not Users - Consultation Caroline Jarrett and Naintara Land talk about the practice of communicating with domain experts before conducting user research, which is widely used in Gov.uk. How to Determine Task Completion Jeff Sauro talks about how you can track a user's progress in moderated and unmoderated studies. Going global with international research
Charlotte Clancy and her Deliveroo user research team colleagues share some interesting stories from user experiences in other countries. Useful tips on some methods.
Generating a Large Return on Social-Media Experiences
Simon Norris and Peter Kay talk about Nomensa's approach to researching social media relationships and the conclusions they make for the product.
Wrangling Difficult Usability Test Participants
Jim Ross gives tips on working with complex respondents during user research. He lists a dozen behavior problems.
From Research Goals to Usability-Testing Scenarios - A 7-Step Method
Susan Farrell describes a step-by-step Nielsen / Norman Group scripting tutorial for usability testing.
Visual programming and design in the browser
Compositor - Tools & Services for Designers, Developers, & Creatives
An interesting experimental set of online tools for designers. One of them allows you to build a site based on your own design system, which can be greatly customized. A small video of the work . CSS Support Guide for Email Clients from Campaign Monitor Campaign Monitor updated their CSS support guide for popular email clients. What has changed . XRespond - Virtual Device Lab Another online service for quickly checking responsive sites at different resolutions. Its creator Indrek Paas talks about why he launched it . Yes, That Web Project Should Be a PWA
Aaron Gustafson Progressive Web Apps Overview.
The State of the Web
Karolina Szczur brought together relevant tips on optimizing site performance. Images, fonts, scripts. Continuing the topic:
- Tammy Everts shows a disappointing trend - the average page size of the site is now 3 megabytes and will soon grow to 4 MB . She also studied the trends of recent years - which part occupies the most. The weight of images, videos and scripts is growing.
Webflow
CSS Grid and Flexbox
- Rachel Andrew began a series of hands-on articles on CSS Grid features that became standard in March 2017 and appeared in Chrome, Firefox, and Safari.
Web Typography
- François Poizat, one of the creators of the Prototypo font tool, talks about the difference between variable and parametric fonts and shows how to work with the latter in Prototypo .
UX Strategy and Management
Building UX Teams at Scale - Inside Atlassian's Bespoke Hiring Process
A fairly detailed and capacious story about how Atlassian design teams work. They also write about the hiring process. Other stories about design teams:
- Pavel Knyazev from VKontakte talks about how the design team works , its process and tools, as well as updating mobile applications for Android and iOS.
- David Nelson, Creative Director of one of Microsoft's product teams, talks about how it works .
- Continuation of Ashleigh Axios' article on redesigning Automattic .
What to expect from PMs
Julie Zhuo helps designers get in touch with product managers. She analyzes typical problems of mutual understanding and ways to solve them. Part 2 . Reflections on design management Ian Schoen described his experience as a trainee curator at Salesforce. The result was a sensible reminder for both. On Becoming a UX Manager - New Skills, Requirements, and Rewards Jerrod Larson did a good job of describing the key skills and responsibilities of a design manager.
Product Management and Analytics
OKR Examples - How to write Objectives and Key results?
A gorgeous collection of OKR examples for different teams and products from Weekdone to help guide them.
Klement - Ulwick Debate on Desired Outcomes and the Statistical Validity of Outcome Driven Innovation
Alan Klement reviewed his many years of dispute with Anthony Ulwick about his Outcome-Driven Innovation concept. Alan considers the calculation method to be unscientific, Anthony proves his point.
Methodologies, Procedures, Standards
Why Design Thinking in Business Needs a Rethink
Martin Kupp, Jamie Anderson and Jörg Reckhenrich talk about the challenges that classic organizations face in implementing design thinking practices. The process and cultural features of such companies contradict many of the iterative collaboration frameworks, so it is important to solve them in order to avoid failure.
Cases
Launching Creative Market - Our Playbook for Kickstarting a Marketplace
Creative Market founder Aaron Epstein shares instructions on launching a template store. A good description of the launch plan, the initial hypotheses and those that are confirmed.
History
Vlad Golovach - Design Culture 2.0The second edition of Vlad Golovach’s gorgeous book “Design Culture” has been released. Vlad spent a lot of time reading books on the history of design as a profession and cultural phenomenon. This in itself is fascinating, and as applied to its industry, it also helps to get rid of many stamps and cargo cults that arise due to professional mythology. I managed to read only Adriana Forti and a couple of books on the topic, so thanks to the “Design Culture” you can cut corners a bit and cover much more.
In the second edition, the focus has shifted from history to how the design culture affects the relationship between the designer and the customer. Although the terms are slightly confusing, the very idea of highlighting a worldview (to know what is good) and methods / practices / habits (do not forget to do well). The topic of creating a design culture in companies is one of the most relevant in recent years, and Vlad has an interesting approach from the theoretical side.
In general, if you did not read the first edition, you missed a lot and the new version of the book will greatly expand your horizons. If you read - the second edition adds a point of practical application of these ideas.
Haters gonna hate - What we can learn from Facebook's 2006 news feed redesign
Mike Frederick Ziethlow recalls the epochal launch of the Facebook news feed in 2006, which by external attributes looked like a complete failure - 700 thousand users signed a petition against it, about 5% of the audience at that time. But the company understood what it was doing and saw the metrics, so that it was waiting for a wave of negativity, and the insane growth of the user base and profits suggests that it was right. Although it is important to understand that the key here is not suicidal obstinacy, but an understanding of why the redesign is being done and how to understand its effectiveness.
Trends
Brandmark
Algorithmic design enthusiast Jack Qiao has launched Brandmark's comprehensive design service for small businesses. As well as Logojoy, it helps to choose a logo and shows examples of its use. But Brandmark went further and builds the UI Kit in code using a corporate identity. The principles of the logo generator and font pairs . Jack also launchedBrandmark's logo quality and uniqueness analyzer and a reducer for them . Continuing the topic:
- Robert Hart reflects on who owns the copyright to a work or product created using algorithmic design .
- Facebook learned how to automatically fix problems when taking panoramic photos .
- Quick cleaning and changing the background from a portrait photo is built into the standard iOS 11 photo application - the solution has become quite widespread.
- Microsoft's Joyce Chou, Oscar Murillo, and Roger Ibars write about the biases that can be built into products using artificial intelligence . It is important that the training set and other aspects take this into account.
- Erica Virtue from Facebook talks about improving the feature of recommending places of interest using AI .
Audio Signifiers for Voice Interaction
Kathryn Whitenton from Nielsen / Norman provides many useful tips for designing and testing voice interfaces. Continuing the topic:
- Amazon and Microsoft have decided to combine efforts to develop voice interfaces, so now Alexa and Cortana will be integrated .
Top Trends in the Gartner Hype Cycle for Emerging Technologies, 2017
In August, a fresh Gartner hot technology curve came out. Continuing the topic:
- Fabricio Teixeira’s ridiculous approach to trending in UX - he took Google search hints to continue questions about interfaces .
Jono Yuen - FUI: How to Design User Interfaces for Film and Games: Featuring tips and advice from artists that worked on: Minority Report, The Avengers, Star Wars, The Dark Tower, Black Mirror and moreA book on movie interfaces from Jono has been released Yuen, creator of HUDs & GUIs , one of the main related sites.
Smart watches and bracelets
Virtual reality
- Ada Rose Edwards gave an overview of how virtual reality support works in browsers .
Car interfaces
- Advertising platforms got to the machines - Adobe added this feature to its Experience Cloud .
- Autonomous machines learn much faster in virtual reality, so Google launched the Carcraft platform for this.
Fast Co Design Innovation by Design Awards 2017
The most interesting products and experiments of 2017 in terms of design according to Fast Co Design.
For general and professional development
Mentor Forces
Simon Boboshko, along with his comrades, launched a small service that allows you to get advice from a professional designer on the price of a cup of coffee. The service is suitable for young designers who need to understand what is wrong with their layout, get advice or art direction of the project as a whole. And also for customers who need an independent evaluation of the work of the contractor. Briefbox - Practice briefs, resources & skill development for designers The service helps novice designers pump skills - you can download briefs for various tasks and do it in your free time. Designer's Self-Checklist - What kind of designer are you or want to become? Great checklist for product designer from Geunbae "GB" Lee from Facebook.
Launching Your Design Career - Which Type Of Education Is Best For You?
Alec McGuffey compares in sufficient detail the different ways to get a design education: university programs, short-term courses, internships, online courses.
Top Online Graphic Design Courses
Comparative collection of online interface design courses.
Baymard Institute
Bamard Research Launches Certification of Ecommerce Interface Design Specialists
Does HCI scale? Scale hacking and the relevance of HCI
Barry Brown, Susanne Bødker and Kristina Höök reflect on how the profession can evolve in an era of multi-channel interaction and constantly changing products, when old methods are not always suitable.
Roundups - Curated collection of newsletters & roundups for designers
A selection of product design feeds.
People and companies in the industry
Readymag - How Russian designers created an Internet publishing tool that is used around the world.
History of the creation of Readymag, a domestic publishing tool and interviews with its creators. Russian augmented reality - as an MAI graduate became a Google RBC visionary, they spoke about the career history of Ivan Pupyrev, who managed to make many interesting projects for Sony, Disney and Google. He combines the skills of an inventor and a businessman.
Conference proceedings
UX Week 2017
Conference UX Week 2017 took place from August 29 to September 1 in San Francisco, USA. Browse performances with all videos.
Fresh links can also be tracked in the same Facebook group or receive once a month by mail . Thanks to everyone who also publishes links in it, especially Gennady Dragun, Pavel Skripkin, Dmitry Podluzhny, Anton Artemov, Denis Efremov, Alexei Kopylov, Taras Brizitsky, Evgeny Sokolov and Anton Oleinik. More and more materials appear in reviews thanks to them.
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