Design

What can web designers and developers do to build a more sustainable web? This post explores the environmental impacts of web technologies and looks at some of the ways we can build greener websites.

We looked at over 1,400 romance novel covers featured in Publishers Weekly from 2011 to 2023 and evaluated each cover based on its raunchiness (or level of undress), art style, and representation of racial diversity.

All BBC websites and apps must conform to the Mobile Accessibility Guidelines. These guidelines are applicable for responsive websites, native and hybrid apps, interactive content, and increasingly for TV apps.

We craft alternative brands and wicked-fast websites. Let’s delight your customers and accelerate your business!

By Cristina McComic and Rosie Sycks

A cross-functional team brought together quantitative and qualitative learnings to figure out why notifications were falling short—and how to make them better.

Lessons I learned about measuring my impact and building trust on the way to a promotion.

Exploring the reasons why we no longer have web designers.

By taking a human-centered approach, designers can craft intuitive interfaces that enhance usability, foster trust, and allow users to intentionally navigate a model’s...

Aligning research insights to stakeholder incentives to maximize the likelihood of action.

Elevate VR with storytelling: A design tool for depth, emotion, and immersion in immersive experiences.

The timing was right. We were adding in new features (huddles, canvases, lists, etc.) into a UI system that was originally designed solely for messaging capabilities. Meanwhile, research showed users on the biggest and most active teams were struggling to stay on top of the basics. Our product navigation was reaching its limits. Slack had …

How Adobe + Figma's shared vision might work and look.

Jamie Reid, the artist who defined the look of 1970s punk with his brightly subversive collages and protest art, has died at age 76.

An excerpt from Stuart Walker’s new book emDesign for Resilience./em

As his first-ever career retrospective opens in Hull, the Sex Pistols artist gives a guide for anyone wanting to do it their way

How changing a button increased a site's annual revenues by $300 million.

As we embarked on the largest evolution to Slack’s information architecture, us designers believed it was the perfect opportunity to evolve Slack’s iconic look and feel. While the undertaking would be no small feat, we were inspired to make Slack even more pleasant, more personal, and easier to understand. Make it more Slack-y. We decided …

In technical products, there’s a tendency to lean towards A/B tests. To run simultaneous changes across different slices of your user base and to measure the outcome. A/B tests can be extremely useful in some cases — if you’re at Google or Meta scale or if you’re doing something like performance marketing. But in the vast majority of cases, it’s more pain than it’s worth — and might even be detrimental. 1. You don’t have enough data. Most products don’t have enough users to generate statistic

How do you animate an element as it leaves the DOM? You can’t, is the historical answer. As soon as an element is removed from the DOM, it immediately disappears, there is no animation opport…

Icons are capable of enhancing the content that surrounds them, but they have to be self-explanatory for that to happen. We have icons for things we like (a thumbs up), things we can share (a box topped with an up arrow), and even for protection against malicious online attacks (a shield), but what are the options we have for representing “privacy”?

Interactions can be applied to high-fidelity UX maps to showcase user research and further engage with stakeholders.

Use this glossary to quickly clarify key terms and concepts related to research methods in UX.

A series of frameworks to help you reflect, direct and develop yourself or your team.

Follow this pattern whenever you need to ask users questions within your service

I specialize in delivering digital products through strategy and design. With 25 years of experience, my sweet spot is cultivating strong customer relationships through design and user experience.

Hey! This is an excerpt from my book Designing Products People Love [https://www.scotthurff.com/book], which was published by O'Reilly in January 2016. Learn more about the book and the 20+ product designers from Facebook, Twitter, Slack, etc. who were interviewed about how they work. Have you ever