Design

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

How one-pager with 10 sections can help avoid confusion and frustration in the design process.

I've been designing various things—principally for screens, and to a lesser extent physical products—since 2007. Only now am I writing an ethos—that is, my …

Buttons are one of the most common components in UX design. Learn how to create buttons that guide users effectively.

What I learned from making a podcast about how design systems can perpetuate systemic bias, and how to mitigate that.

Discover how Leonardoworx LWX merges Bauhaus principles with modern 3D illustration, crafting artworks that celebrate simplicity and color.

Let us not throw this term around and pin down what it means precisely.

Design validation is a comprehensive process of testing and validating a design to ensure that it meets the needs of the user while serving the strategic