Be Good to Your Users Blog
What is Guerrilla Testing and How Do I Use It? 🦍
A UX beginner’s guide to the what, why and how of guerrilla testing. The pros, the cons and how to plan this technique into your usability strategy.
A Brief Guide to Web vs Native Apps ☝️
What’s the difference between native and web apps? What are the pros and cons of each? Who delivers a great consistent experience between both platforms?
UX and SEO: Two Disciplines (Becoming More) Alike in User-Friendliness 👫
Ranking in search is no longer just about shoving links where they don’t belong and keyword stuffing your meta descriptions. Ranking will be about providing the highest quality content and experience to real-life users. What UX signals does Google look for when ranking websites?
Win This Entire UX Book Bundle! 🌟
Hold it!✋ Want to win this entire UX book bundle (total of 11 books) from our UX Reading List? To enter, simply tweet this and tell us your favourite book from the list. Then you're done! Easy as chips.
UX Articles
You Don’t Need to Know Everything About UX 🤓
Don’t force yourself to learn everything at the same time. You will end up in a loop of anxiety that will only accentuate weaknesses and knowledge gaps, not your strengths.
A Guide To Virtual Reality For Web Developers 😎
Recently, there has been a proliferation of virtual reality (VR) web browsers and VR capabilities added to traditional browsers. In this article, we’ll look at the state of browsers in VR and the state of VR on the web.
The Password Needs to Die and Better UX Will Kill It 💀
For a vestige of the past, the password has managed to hold on and remain alive — even though some of the top people in computing said that it had already died over a decade ago.
Psychology Articles
Psychological Approach to Design 👩🏻
Who are we designing for? Let's look at how Psychology helps use create better products.
Design Articles
How I Stopped Worrying and Learned to Love Design Thinking 😍
Designer Christina Wodtke discovered that the oft-parodied approach to Design Thinking — a lot of post-its and a lot of prototyping — works better than nearly any other approach to product and service innovation.
Flat UI Elements Attract Less Attention and Cause Uncertainty 🤷♀️
NN/g report says flat interfaces often use weak signifiers. In an eyetracking experiment comparing different kinds of clickability clues, UIs with weak signifiers required more user effort than strong ones.
Designers Live In The Future 🌟
As a design practitioner, you’re bestowed with the overwhelming task of creating the future. To build upon the lessons of the past. To improve the present and get their innovation hustle lit. To learn from mistakes and to take the best from previous findings.
Digital Marketing
How to Make Your Landing Pages Worth Landing On ☄️
The do’s and don’ts of landing pages—plus a plug for quick-and-dirty usability testing.
Media (Video, Podcast, etc.)
UX Podcast #166: Oblivious Design 💁🏾♂️
Oblivious design – is how we, as designers (and programmers), have good intentions and good ideas but our focus is normally on very specific scenarios. This, combined with our domain knowledge, causes potential uses (and abuses) to go overlooked.
(Listening time: 35 minutes)
UX Live in London
Win 1 of 5 tickets to UX Live - FinTech in London 🚀
UX Live is a London-based networking event for professionals, and with every event seeing a different theme. This time, we'll be looking at the UX of FinTech companies. Free pizza and drinks. Here's how you can win.
When: Thursday, 21st September, 6:30pm
Where: IDEALondon, 69 Wilson Street, London
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.