UX/UI Links of May 2020
Another month of solid UX and UI articles. Thanks to all the writers out there sharing their knowledge with the world.
Over-Complicated? Over-Simplified? The UX Efficient Frontier
We are not our users. We are even less our expert users.
- Morgane Peng, Design Director
What makes a user experience good is entirely dependent on who uses it. Over-Complicated? Over-Simplified? The UX Efficient Frontier describes how to design for expert users, when simple often isn’t better.
Modern Touch-Friendly Design
Bottom navigation bars are closer to the edges and provide comfortable access to key actions.
- Addy Osmani, Engineering Manager
Designing for mobile is a very different paradigm, in large part because we use our fingers instead of a mouse. Modern Touch-Friendly Design is a succinct summary of how to design for the constraints of our hands.
🔥 Design Tips
Don't be afraid to "think outside the database" — your UI doesn't need to map one-to-one with your data's fields and values.
- Steve Schoger, Designer
🔥 Design Tips is a Twitter moment of all of the best UI design tips from Refactoring UI, a great new resource for designers. Packed with practical advice.
Designing for Progressive Disclosure
We need to make conscious decisions about what information needs to be visible and what can be a click or a scroll away.
- Steven Hoober, UX Design Consultant
Progressive disclosure has long been a technique used by UX designers to reduce information overload. But desktop paradigms don’t easily translate to mobile. Designing for Progressive Disclosure tells you what works and what doesn’t on mobile screens.
3 Questions I Learned to Ask in the Design Process
Be careful about striving to create something shiny and completely unconventional for the sake of “innovating”.
- Grace Dai, Product Designer
3 Questions I Learned to Ask in the Design Process is a great guide for questioning your assumptions when designing and making sure that you don’t waste effort or go down the wrong path.
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