UX Teams: Stop it with the wireframes. Please.
Complexity and User Experience
Jon Bolt explores how changing the discussion from "functionality" to "complexity" helps product owners and designers better evaluate the real impact new features have on a product.
○ Multiscreen Experience
Prinzipien und Muster für das Informationsmanagement in der Digitalen Gesellschaft (Beta)
Facilitating Effortless Discovery of Content for Teaching
As video becomes more popular online, we look at a project where video discovery and delivery best practices are beginning to be defined.
Want To Create A Great Product? First, Forget "User Friendliness"
User-friendliness is the inevitable result of a smart design approach, not the starting point. Here are three criteria to help you develop a useful design brief that will ultimately yield a great product.
How to Design a Mobile Responsive Website
When, why, and how should you go about designing a responsive website? Equator web designer and UX Booth contributor Elaine Simpson breaks down the basics of responsive web design.
Google+ Styled UI Buttons, Icon Buttons & Dropdown Menu Buttons
… an easy to implement framework of Google+ styled buttons, icon buttons & dropdown menu buttons
Comprehensive Review Of Usability And User Experience Testing Tools
This is an experiment in a slightly different format for Smashing Magazine – using a storytelling approach to convey the same lessons learned that a traditional article would have provided.
Barrierefreiheit auch für dynamische Seiten – mit HTML5 und ARIA
Beyond Task Completion: Flow in Design
In flow, the experience is rich and deep, and helps users be productive and highly creative.
Beyond Task Completion: Flow in Design
In flow, the experience is rich and deep, and helps users be productive and highly creative.
Free Download: Cheat Sheet For Designing Web Forms
16 Pixels: For Body Copy. Anything Less Is A Costly Mistake
Please note that this article used to have [another layout](http://web.archive.org/web/20130104231015/https://www.smashingmagazine.com/2011/10/07/16-pixels-body-copy-anything-less-costly-mistake) that got lost in space during the migration of content to new servers.
Guesses vs. Data as Basis for Design Recommendations
Even the tiniest amount of empirical facts (say, observing 2 users) vastly improves the probability of making correct UI design decisions.
Effective Use of Color and Graphics in Applications for Children, Part I: Toddlers and Preschoolers
“The effective use of color and graphics in children’s media is one of the most important aspects of design to ensure that you deliver optimal content and a memorable user experience to young users.”
The T-Model and Strategies for Hiring IA Practitioners: Part 1
Web magazine about user experience matters, providing insights and inspiration for the user experience community
Developers, UX Is Your Business Too!
Developers can have profound impacts on the UX of the products they’re working on.
Web Forms How-To Part 1: Simplicity
Keep signup forms simple and fast, and delegate as much as possible.
Psychological Usability Heuristics
Translating Susan Weinschenk's UX psychology facts into usability heuristics.
Better UX Design Needed for Enterprise Tablet Adoption
Apps that are simple, intuitive, and have few features are well suited for enterprise tablet use.
Not Your Parent's Mobile Phone: UX Design Guidelines For Smartphones
Responsive HTML images
… adapts your existing HTML images for mobile devices. No mark-up changes needed. Just drop it in and forget about it.
Visual Designers Are Just As Important As UX Designers
As I explained in my previous post, user experience design is a multidisciplinary activity which includes psychology, user research, information architecture, interaction design, graphic design and a host of other disciplines. Due to the complexity of the field a user experience team will typically be made up of individuals with a range of different specialisms.
News Redux
«Digital news is broken. Actually, news itself is broken. Almost all news organizations have abandoned reporting in favor of editorial; have cultivated reader opinion in place of responsibility; and have traded ethical standards for misdirection and whatever consensus defines as forgivable. And this is before you even lay eyes on what passes for news design on a monitor or device screen these days. […]»
AppControls
… makes it easy to quickly create high-quality custom controls for your iOS apps, Mac apps and for the web.
Contrast Rebellion - to hell with low-contrast fonts!
Low-contrast font color and unreadable texts? To hell with them!
Apple OS X Lion Buttons in CSS
Best Practices For Designing Websites For Kids
Designing websites and related media for kids presents plenty of opportunities for Web designers. Openings are available at many businesses and schools, as well as through parents and kids themselves, giving designers many ways to find work on electronic and print projects that appeal to kids. The types of work range from interface designs for video games to websites for birthday parties.
Useful Ideas And Guidelines For Good Web Form Design
The input form is an essential element of almost any website or application these days. Input is a core method of interaction, and in many cases it represents the hard conversion point between success and failure. With the amount time and effort we put into bringing users to our sign-up and contact forms, it’s surprising that we tend not to spend a proportional amount of time on the forms themselves.
What makes a good UX designer?