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.

UX Myths collects the most frequent user experience misconceptions and explains why they don't hold true.

Premature error messages, aggressively styled fields, and unnecessarily disruptive system-status messages feel bad-mannered and increase cognitive load for users during otherwise simple tasks.

If appropriately used, dropdowns don’t have to be awful.

… a free library of psychological principles and examples for inspiration to enhance the customer experience and connect with your users.

Find out how to pick fonts for your user interfaces that aren't just beautiful, but also improve your websites' usability.

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?

Web magazine about user experience matters, providing insights and inspiration for the user experience community

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.

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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. […]

Why abstractedness is key to comprehension for icons and symbols used in UIs.

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.

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.

Even the tiniest amount of empirical facts (say, observing 2 users) vastly improves the probability of making correct UI design decisions.

Translating Susan Weinschenk's UX psychology facts into usability heuristics.