Be Good to Your Users Blog
A User Experience Guide to Typography 💟
How to improve usability through typography, legibility, and readability.
A Directory of UX/UI Design Slack Groups 👨👩👧👧
Presenting a directory of Slack channels that may be of interest to you, dear UXer, who probably definitely likes UX and Slack.
Highlights from our AMA with Hugo Froes, UX Designer and Co-Creator of UX Discuss 🌟
For this hour-long chat, Hugo fielded questions covering absolutely anything on the subject of UX, from how to showcase a UX portfolio, to promoting the value of UX in-house to stakeholders, to balancing user needs with business goals.
His mantra is simple, “If I’m helping to make the world better for people, I’m doing my job.”
What is Data-Driven Design and Where do I Start? 📊
In this UX chat, the UX community on Twitter didn't hesitate to weigh in on what is data-driven design, and how it is different from generative design.
Join the WhatUsersDo Community on Slack and Win a UX Starter Kit!
No UXer is an island. 🌴 Meet, chat, and learn from UX professionals around the world. If you're not yet part of the WhatUsersDo Community on Slack, now's a good time to be!
AND we're giving away one UX Starter Kit every week this month! Here's how to enter. 🌟
UX Articles
Don’t Let Your Brain Deceive You: Avoiding Bias In Your UX Feedback 🤔
You know that user feedback is crucial — after all, your users will decide whether your app succeeds or not — but how do you know whether users are being fair and objective in their feedback?
UX for Lizard Brains 🐉
By doing our best to concretize the dematerialized things of our screen-based world, we give our lizard brains better affordances for understanding. When we avoid shapeshifting, masking, and breaking digital objects, understanding will emerge more naturally.
Design Articles
Making The Case For 'Boring' UX Design 😐
In design, ‘boring’ is often treated as a dirty word. Apparently, we as individuals are turned off by boring. But is that true for us as end users? When it comes to the products and websites we consume, do we really want artistic, unpredictable design?
One Year Designing at WhatsApp📱
This designer gives his thoughts on how WhatsApp and Facebook design at scale.
How to Make your Resume as User-Centred as you are 🤓
If you’re a user-centered designer, your resume should be too!
Digital Marketing
How to Change Your Career from Marketing to UX Design 😎
Making the move from marketing to UX design isn’t that difficult. You already have many of the skills required to be a UX designer. The biggest change is that your focus will shift from “customers” to “users”.
Media (Video, Podcast, etc.)
Designing Great Apps for New Internet Users (by Google Design) ⚙
Millions of new internet users will be coming online in the near future, but many will still have slow and intermittent access. Learn best practices about designing products and experiences for constrained connectivity contexts from Google designers who think about this every day.
Running time: 26: 42
Don’t just read about good UX—practice it!
Working on a prototype, website or some other project that would benefit from an improved user experience? You can now launch free UX tests via the WhatUsersDo platform.
Watch how users interact with your assets and hear their spoken thoughts as they do so. This shows you what makes life easy for users or drives them straight to your competitors.
We know you care about good UX—but your users need you to act on it.
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