A Design Research Framework — Mule Design
Design
Octalysis: Complete Gamification Framework - Yu-kai Chou
Smashing Podcast Episode 54 With Stéphanie Walter: What Is User Journey Mapping? — Smashing Magazine
Games | Interface In Game
🇯🇵 Google Fonts: pairings ---日本語---
Google Font Pairings
Applying BeSci in the Private Sector: a repository of case studies, learning resources & job specs
Easing Gradients
The BBC's 15 Web Principles - 15 years later
Replacing Sass · Discussion #44 · Shopify/foundational-design-system-proto
Building conscious design systems by Amy Hupe, content designer.
How To Choose Typefaces For Fintech Products: Our Best Practices Guide (Part 1) — Smashing Magazine
Fintech products are systems that are overloaded by many types of data like numerals, texts, spreadsheets, and so on. Working with these products requires the designer to pay a high level of attention and responsibility, as he becomes a provider between user and data. Daria shares her approach to digital product typography and reviews the key points to consider when choosing typefaces.
Semantics and the popover attribute: what to use when?
The popover attribute adds behaviour, not semantics. Which semantics should you use in combination with the popover attribute?
A guide to mobile ad types and formats - Admixer.Blog
78% of all users daily appear online via mobile web or in-app. Which mobile ad formats to choose to win this audience? Read in this guide.
Victim of Bad Designs
Bad designs have real consequences. I’ve lost my groceries and almost lost my bank card because of — well, bad designs.
Focusing on experience design for a memorable UX - LogRocket Blog
Experience design is becoming an essential component of product, system, and service offerings and provides memorable user interactions.
Time to market: Definition and strategies to speed up TTM - LogRocket Blog
Time to market is the duration it takes to bring a product from initial ideation to market delivery. Learn strategies to achieve faster TTM.
How your colorblind and colorweak readers see your colors - Datawrapper Blog
Red, green & brown, pink, turquoise & grey, purple & blue: How red-blind and green-blind people perceive them.
What to consider when choosing colors for data visualization
Simple do's and dont's for using colors in data visualiztions.
Figma Product Design & Writing Career Levels | Figma Community
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 ...
How we do design critiques at Figma | Figma Blog
Learn 6 unique methods for design critique used by the Figma design team, along with some tips and best practices for running them effectively.
Lean Product Design: A Playbook - Browser London
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 […]
The ideal viewport doesn’t exist
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.
Better Context Menus With Safe Triangles — Smashing Magazine
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.
Everything Goes With Everything...
A document summing up Eliot Noyes design philosophy: found in Paul Rand’s papers.
The Graphic Design Olympics
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.
Design Tokens 101
How to set up design tokens and where to use them?
Good Microcopy
Words and messages that provide context and set expectations — that's good microcopy. Curated by...
Why your design critique sucked
What went wrong, what makes a great critique and alternatives.
Cohesion in UX writing
Creating cohesive narratives across all touchpoints