Susie Lu - Storytelling in Dashboards
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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
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.
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
UX Punk - Apps With Attitude
UI Patterns and Techniques
Creating the Windows 8 user experience - Building Windows 8 - Site Home - MSDN Blogs
Get the latest information, insights, announcements, and news from Microsoft.
What is User-Centered Design (UCD)?
User-centered design (UCD) is an approach to design that grounds the process in information about the people who will use the product. UCD processes focus on users through the planning, design and development of a product. […]
Realism in UI Design
Why abstractedness is key to comprehension for icons and symbols used in UIs.
Not Your Parent's Mobile Phone: UX Design Guidelines For Smartphones
Contrast Rebellion - to hell with low-contrast fonts!
Low-contrast font color and unreadable texts? To hell with them!
a11yBest 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.
Log in or sign up?
"Sometimes I put my log in information into the register fields." "Me too! I hate that not only do I feel stupid, I have to retype everything again." For one of my side projects, Leafy Chat, we have just added the concept of user accounts. This includes the need for registration and log in (as well as log out and forgot password and so on). Leafy Chat only requires an email address and a password for both registration and log in, so it would be great to have some clever way to have both forms on the homepage. Some things...