Design: Specs/Docs/UX

What is a Product One-Pager?

Creating personas helps you understand your users’ needs, experiences, behaviours and goals. Learn more about how they help you create great user experiences.

When it comes to user interface design, often the best way to learn is to analyse the mistakes of sites you hate using. Sites that have bad UI design.

Having a clearly articulated set of user interface design principles will make you a better designer, not constrain your creativity.

Design Systems can be a big win for accessibility if you do it right. Learn how you can make your components and colors accessible.

“14 practical ways to become your engineering team's favorite designer 👇”

“Here are my top 10 @figmadesign plugins that helped build and control my design system. A thread. 🧵”

The emotional impact of interface colors shouldn’t be overlooked. And while some colors are “universal” in UI design (such as black, white, and gray, at least one of which is used in virtually every good design out there), the colors with which they’re combined can have a huge impact on a product’s UX.

To make cool UI designs you've got to be well-watched and experienced. But if you don't have it, a small picture explaining what's good and what's bad can help you figure it out quickly. In 2017, such visual UI micro tips became a buzz topic. There are lots of them now, and they cover a large number of design issues.

“"Your UI doesn't need to map one-to-one with your data's fields and values". Great thinking on simplicity from @steveschoger (whose Refactoring UI book is A+) https://t.co/OT4W8YNTb3”

“When people say "if it doesn't have X, it's not a design system": ignore them. The term "design system" has become shorthand for a pretty narrow (in the grand scheme of things) application of tools, processes and organisational structure Why does this matter? 1/5”

“How to crush your UX design whiteboard challenge. Unfortunately, we don’t get taught how to do this in university. I have interviewed in most of the top companies. Here are five pieces of advice that will help you crush your next whiteboard design challenge. 🧵👇 https://t.co/44WPWiKEvu”

Buttons on websites? Nothing special: just an ordinary everyday element of interaction design. Despite this, it’s rather too easy to find buttons that don’t conform to some basic best practices. Here are my basic best practices for buttons: Make buttons look likeContinue reading... Basic best practices for buttons

Looking at other people's homepages for inspiration doesn't lead to a successful homepage design. You need to understand the principles that underpin them.

“UI/UX Tip 💡 The less effort users make - the better. Provide an icon to clear the text input. It's especially useful when you're on a mobile device. https://t.co/tfjLQ3tyLe”

“Over the years the most common designer complaint has always been "No one listens" and "UX isn't a priority/understood", so I want to throw something controversial out there: Some of this is our doing. A quick(ish) thread on why and how to fix it 🧵 #uxdesign #design #ux”

We often talk about design systems as singular entities. "The design system saves time and increases quality." "Oh, the design system provides that." "Update to the latest version of the design system." The reality is that a design system is a multi-faceted layer cake, and also operates as part of o

When starting a project, we are often sure that our idea is impeccable and that a new product will easily take its rightful niche in the…

PRD’s are long dead. Use High Fidelity Prototypes + Wiki Pages to write great product requirements instead.

When working on a product for a long time, it is very easy to start seeing it as a set of features. As the team always works to get the…

by Nick Babich

From Pitching a Strategy to Launching 1.0 and Beyond

Learn the fundamentals of UX & UI Design.