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.
Seriously, Don’t Use Icon Fonts
In Plain Sight
Make commerce better for everyone
Usability Testing of Icons
SVG Sprites vs. Icon-Fonts | maddesigns
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
A List Apart: UX
Luke Wroblewski
LukeW Ideation + Design provides resources for mobile and Web product design and strategy including presentations, workshops, articles, books and more on usability, interaction design and visual design.
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.
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.
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
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.
Psychological Usability Heuristics
Translating Susan Weinschenk's UX psychology facts into usability heuristics.
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!
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.