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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 β user research, design, usability testing, and more. We're always cooking up new recipes, so check back frequently!
Usability Testing with Older Adults | Using Imagery in Visual Design | Discovery in Agile | What is Visual Weight?
Hostile Patterns in Error Messages
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.
cognitive load
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.
JavaScript Bookmarklets for Accessibility Testing
Overlay Overload: Competing Popups Are an Increasing Menace
Todayβs 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. ζγγγ (omoiyari, consideration) andβ¦
Usability of Footnotes
Iβve been reading lots more non-fiction books than normal. And Iβm getting increasingly annoyed about footnotes1. Footnotes are a weird skeuomorph hangover from the days of printed textβ¦
The UX of LEGO Interface Panels β George Cave
Dashboard UI: 14 Best Practices for Designers, Developers & Product Owners
10 Ways to Improve Dropdowns in UI & UX Design
If appropriately used, dropdowns donβt have to be awful.
10 Usability Heuristics Every Designer Should Know
Web Accessibility In Context β Smashing Magazine
WCAG 2.1 Primer
WCAG 2.1 is the standard used by EN 301 549, the European procurement rules, and you need to pass these success criteria to comply with the UK Public Sector Bodies (Websites and Mobile Applications) Accessibility Regulations 2018
Icon Fonts vs SVGs - Which One Should You Use In 2018?
It's 2019! Let's End The Debate On Icon Fonts vs SVG Icons
Ten reasons we switched from an icon font to SVG - Ian Feather
SVGs FTW! Warum ihr keine Icon Fonts einsetzen solltet
Digital Psychology
β¦ 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 β Smashing Magazine