UX/UI Links of August 2020
August is usually a slow month for articles, with many people on vacation, but it didn’t seem so this year (I wonder why…). Hope you enjoy these five articles from the past month.
4 Lessons Web App Designers Can Learn From Google
What we want to focus on are the components that make Googleâs products so easy to use time and time again.
- Suzanne Scacca, Copywriter
Despite having grown way beyond a simple search engine, Google still does a great job with simplicity and clarity. 4 Lessons Web App Designers Can Learn From Google shows how you can apply their techniques to your products.
What You Need to Know About an App Top Bar
As a noticeable and indispensable part of the page, sometimes an interactive top bar relieves the burden of interaction for the rest of the page
- Yuyan Duan, Product Designer
What You Need to Know About an App Top Bar looks at the anatomy and behavior of over 100 mobile apps to teach you how to optimize their design.
Documenting Is Designing: How Documentation Drives Better Design Outcomes
One of the best ways to ensure a design is well-reasoned is to be âforcedâ to describe it verbally or by flowing out the logic.
- Heidi Adkisson, UX Designer
Taking the time to document use cases and workflows of your app before you start designing may feel a bit tedious. But, as Documenting Is Designing: How Documentation Drives Better Design Outcomes shows, it helps you get the right design and the design right.
Proximity Principle in Visual Design
When users completely miss a link, button, or piece of information even though itâs right in front of them, proximity (or rather, the lack of it) is often to blame.
- Aurora Harley, User Experience Specialist
Simple, yet powerful, using proximity wisely is a key design strategy that anyone can use to improve their work. Proximity Principle in Visual Design has some great lessons and examples.
Jakob Nielsen's Ninth Usability Heuristic for User Interface Design
The message needs to go beyond just stating that there has been an error. It needs to describe the problem that occurred.
- Melissa Velazquez, UX Researcher
Melissa has done a great service to the UX community by writing articles about all 10 of Nielsen’s usability heuristics. Like the others, Jakob Nielsen’s Ninth Usability Heuristic for User Interface Design has some great, modern examples.
Want to read our favorite links from the past? Check out the archives.
Stay safe and be well,
Leon for the Balsamiq Team
Comments (4)
Great post & thank you for sharing, one of the good blogs to read about UI Links
Hello Leon,
Do you know if there’s a good program that will allow me to test my balsamiq wireframes on my iphone?
Thank you!
Hi Laurel,
An easy way to test your wireframes on your mobile device is to export your Balsamiq project as a PDF. If your wireframes contain links, these will work in your exported PDF as well. Don’t hesitate to reach out via support@balsamiq.com if you need more assistance with this, we’re here to help!
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