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Figma Community file - How the Figma Design organization thinks about performance at each level, including a skills chart and detailed descriptions of the core competencies we expect for each role on our team. Read more about our process here: https://www.figma.com/blog/figma-design-team-career-levels/ And check out ...

Learn 6 unique methods for design critique used by the Figma design team, along with some tips and best practices for running them effectively.

Creating a new product is an exciting process. You’ve dreamed up a killer idea, drafted some sketches and maybe even started to think about how you’d make money out of this world beating idea. But hold up. Before jumping in and hiring a development team, or asking IT to build it out, take a step […]

Before you settle on basing design decisions on a handful of strict breakpoints, make sure you consider the vast fragmentation of screen sizes and browser viewports.

Discover how to improve the user experience of nested menus and tackle a minor yet common issue with them when the user’s pointer leaves the menu item for a moment, and the nested menu goes away, requiring the user to re-hover and try again. A well-known concept called the “safe triangle” solves this problem.

A document summing up Eliot Noyes design philosophy: found in Paul Rand’s papers.

The event graphics and pictograms created for the Olympics by designers such as Otl Aicher, Lance Wyman and Deborah Sussman are part of a historic tradition that continues to this day.

How to set up design tokens and where to use them?

Words and messages that provide context and set expectations — that's good microcopy. Curated by...

What went wrong, what makes a great critique and alternatives.

Creating cohesive narratives across all touchpoints

A collaboratively developed, universal content style guide, based on usability evidence. Created by Content Design London.

Explore UX writing tools, webinars, podcasts, and other relevant resources for UX writers and content designers. Enjoy!

Online communities can thrive and stay positive by limiting the number of members.

Content Design is broken and we can’t fix it alone.

A Team Activity to Start a Design System

This is your complete guide to implementing an enterprise design system. Learn the value it adds to your business and the best practices to follow.

Get a bunch of tips to get your online shop's UX a step closer to perfection. It can significantly increase sales in your ecommerce business!

This article provides practical tips for improving the handoff process between design and development in product development. The guidance covers effective communication, documentation, design details, version control, and plugin usage.

How designers have succeeded and failed in our daily lives

Urban planners have been designing for human experiences for nearly 200 years, UI/UX designers can learn from this

Is the formulaic approach to case studies endangering young designers’ capacity for critical thinking?

Case studies are often seen as documentation. But they can be more than that — digestible, thorough stories that showcase skills, values and process. Here are some examples to refer to when writing one.

Shape your designs by using neuroaesthetic insights to cater to individual user preferences

UX Engineers bridge the gap between design and development, with a focus on the user. Find out more about the role.

Thanks to the increasing availability of AI, including machine learning algorithms, deliberately creating customer data feedback loops is now possible for most products and services. This means that as a firm gathers more customer data, it can feed that data into machine learning algorithms to improve its product or service, thereby attracting more customers, generating even more customer data. For some products, it is easy; for others, one needs to find more creative ways to engineer the data feedback loops. This article explains how to do so.

When should you design with intuition, and when should you rely on a comprehensive, heavyweight design process? A designer is usually expected to explore multiple options, diverge and converge on different ideas, but sometimes it's okay to rely on your instincts.

It’s important to slow down and take a moment to understand the questions and assumptions we have about our product.

A transcript of Episode 119 of UX Podcast. James Royal-Lawson, Per Axbom and Christopher McCann talk to Tom Greever about how to discuss…

A reflection on the role of design intuition in the modern design process.