Design

The Gestalt Principles of Design are a set of concepts and guidelines drawn from gestalt psychology, which theorizes that the mind tends to process

The Gestalt Principles of Design are a set of concepts and guidelines drawn from gestalt psychology, which theorizes that the mind tends to process

A report on work by the first graduates from the Royal College of Art’s Critical Writing in Art & Design MA.

Spoiler alert: If you haven’t finished this gorgeous game yet, you may want to stop reading here to avoid seeing screenshots from different…

This article covers the best tips and recommendations on the elements to pay attention to, the rules to follow, and life hacks to get around certain difficulties in table design.

Plain English Campaign is an independent group fighting for plain English in public communication. We oppose gobbledygook, jargon and legalese.

Our 5th annual report unpacks survey data from 929 UX researchers and ReOps pros to uncover trends in research teams, tools, AI, layoffs, and more.

"In this workshop, we’ll look at models and approaches for a small or large business transformation back to high quality products and services that meet and exceed customers’ real needs."

HCI made simple

The design process is messy. You might be following a structured approach, but too often, it takes a life of its own. And before you know it, you are designing in chaos, with last-minute changes and missed deadlines. So, what’s the “perfect” design process?

Going beyond Nielsen’s Usability Heuristics (with Infographic)

Over the years, I’ve found a collection of highly-efficient UX research methods that I rely on when I have little time or money.

Historically, bank cards were relatively simple rectangles of plastic—but not anymore. Here's how this new feature complexity has been tackled.

Good group activities are essential in a remote UX workshop. Here are 33 ideas to try in your next meeting, along with tips and recommended tools.

Changing the round-table discussion.

Striking the right balance between inspiration and innovation might be hard. Let’s explore how to effectively get inspiration from others without losing that magic spark, including some do’s and don’ts along the way.

In this article, Daniel Yuschick demonstrates that building selfish components is the key approach to avoiding different pitfalls on the way to good component design.

Curate resources to design complex data tables for Enterprise UX: table patterns, designing tables for enterprise apps & fitting big tables with a lot of content.

Designing for Experts 101 🦄

If you are clear and candid about your goals and questions, you can learn something useful within whatever time and budget is available to you.

Have you ever experienced a situation where a good design was rejected just because the decision maker woke up on the wrong side of the…

When I advise that a webpage — like a service detail page — have a maximum main body word-count of 150 words, I’m really recommending that it ask a

Figma Community file - We're excited to open up the music box and describe how we've shaped Figma to suit our needs and culture at Spotify. We hope this information will be useful for other design teams seeking more organisation for their work in Figma.

We've opened up the music box and described how we've shaped the tool to suit our needs and culture at Spotify.

Every company and team has to have deep collaboration between engineering and design to get the value out of a design system (and not go nuts). Building design patterns first unblock people to work in parallel, keeps people synced up, and results in reusable modules that speed up your next project.

Just make a separate page.

Say your brand color is the orange #f06d06. Now you need that color but with some opacity on it. One option is the 8-digit hex code. I find it hard to know which additional two characters are needed, but it’s possible. Hex Code Notes #f06d06 Original Orange #f06d0640 Orange @ 25% opacity #f06d0680 Orange @ […]

The research and design behind the evolution of the Material 3 carousel