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Icon Usability
Due to the absence of a standard usage for individual icons, text labels are necessary to communicate meaning and reduce ambiguity in an icon-based design.
Myth #13: Icons enhance usability - UX Myths
UX Myths collects the most frequent user experience misconceptions and explains why they don't hold true.
The UX Cookbook
Handcrafted recipes to get you started with everything UX — user research, design, usability testing, and more. We're always cooking up new recipes, so check back frequently!
Better Forms Through Visual Organization (Video)
Susie Lu - Storytelling in Dashboards
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UX Knowledgbe Base Sketch Collection
10 Usability Heuristics for User Interface Design
Jakob Nielsen's 10 general principles for interaction design. They are called "heuristics" because they are broad rules of thumb and not specific usability guidelines.
Overlay Overload: Competing Popups Are an Increasing Menace
Today’s users are overwhelmed by a plethora of site and browser-initiated popups with content unrelated to their current task.
Accessible Icon Links
by Kitty Giraudel
How Discord Implemented App-Wide Keyboard Navigation
by Jon Egeland | Discord Blog
What Japan can teach us about UX and Universal Design | by Rishma Hansil | UX Collective
The simplicity and efficiency of Japanese products have been admired for centuries around the world. 思いやり (omoiyari, consideration) and…
Usability of Footnotes
I’ve been reading lots more non-fiction books than normal. And I’m getting increasingly annoyed about footnotes1. Footnotes are a weird skeuomorph hangover from the days of printed text…
Dashboard UI: 14 Best Practices for Designers, Developers & Product Owners
10 Ways to Improve Dropdowns in UI & UX Design
If appropriately used, dropdowns don’t have to be awful.
10 Usability Heuristics Every Designer Should Know
Digital Psychology
… a free library of psychological principles and examples for inspiration to enhance the customer experience and connect with your users.
Don Norman on how design fails older consumers
Icons: avoid temptation and start with user needs - NHS Digital
The Importance Of Macro And Micro-Moment Design — Smashing Magazine
Designing More Efficient Forms
Designing More Efficient Forms: Assistance and Validation
Designing More Efficient Forms: Structure, Inputs, Labels and Actions
Dark Side of UI: When Dark Is Good for Users
How to pick the right UI font
Find out how to pick fonts for your user interfaces that aren't just beautiful, but also improve your websites' usability.
In Plain Sight
Make commerce better for everyone
Usability Testing of Icons
Touch Target Sizes
People interact with touch-based user interfaces with their fingers. So user interface controls have to be big enough to capture fingertip actions without frustrating users with erroneous actions and tiny targets. Ok, so how big?
Common Misconceptions About Touch
Web magazine about user experience matters, providing insights and inspiration for the user experience community