Be Good to Your Users Blog
Five Mobile Commerce UX Problems and How to Fix Them 📲
WhatUsersDo and Practicology ran a mobile usability study, based on large-scale UX tests on the mobile sites of 15 online stores. All the UX insights in this article are based on first-hand observation of how real people use these ecommerce websites.
Here's a summary of the most impactful insights across 5 areas of ecommerce mobile site design.
Designing for Social Good [a #uxchat roundup] ☀️
In this roundup of tweets from last week's chat, we discussed what it means to design for social/cultural good. This UX discussion was led by Jon Peterson, UX Consultant based in New York City.
Our talking points: What responsibility do designers have for the social/cultural impact of the things they create? How can we begin to better anticipate and explore the potential long-term effects our design will have? How do we balance good outcomes against bad ones?
UX Articles
Dashboards: Making Charts and Graphs Easier to Understand 📊
This NN/g article explains how visualizations should leverage human cognition and use length and 2D position to communicate quantitative information quickly.
How the Internet Killed Squares 💘
Inspired by Twitter's recent design change, this article explains the internet's shift to circles and round edges. Apparently, the internet has shape preferences, and they’re more meaningful than you think.
How to Create a UX Writing Portfolio 🤓
A portfolio is a great way to share projects with prospective employers, as well as make an impression with your UX skills. Here's how you can make your portfolio stand out, according to Dropbox.
Design Articles
Connecting With Users: Incorporating Humor In Web Design 🤣
Humor can reduce stress, increase psychological well-being and increase tolerance for pain. You can use humor in your design (both in the process and the product) to create a positive user experience. We want to develop positive relationships with our users — humor can help make that happen.
Designing the Perfect Accordion ✅
There is a good reason why the accordion is probably the most established workhorse in responsive design. It’s an immensely useful pattern for progressive disclosure — highlighting important details of a section and revealing more details upon a tap or click, if necessary. Here's a checklist on how to design the perfect accordion.
How to Choose your First Design Gig: Startup, Corporate, or Freelance? 🤔
Coming from university or a UX career transition, you’ve spent time to perfect your portfolio and resume—now what?
Product Management Articles
What I Learned From Working at Uber 🚙
This woman worked at Uber for over 3 years and a minority in a tech role. Here are some of the things that Uber has taught her.
Digital Marketing
Advertising And UX: A Complex Relationship ☄️
The world of advertising is changing, and the direction it is travelling in is on a collision course with UX design. Though it is a seemingly unlikely partnership, the convergence of UX design & advertising is not as far-fetched as it appears.
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.
Join the WhatUsersDo Community on Slack
No UXer is an island. Want to meet or learn from other UX professionals around the world? If you're not yet part of the WhatUsersDo Community on Slack, now's a good time to be — it's a whole new world! 🌟