AI won’t take your job (*yet), but it sure makes your job a whole lot easier.

UX designers refer to these predictable cause-and-effect relationships as the “laws” of UX design. These “laws of UX” are not rigid rules set in stone; they represent tried-and-true cause-and-effect relationships that, over the years, have proven invaluable in aiding UX designers to craft outstanding user experiences.

My name is Gonçalo, and this article will take you through a day in the life of a UX Designer at Pixelmatters.

To put my UX design skills to test, I wanted to find a product with room for improvement in its usability. Conducting a Heuristic Evaluation on the “Fly Delta” app can help in assessing its user interface and overall user experience.

In a world where we laud good design for its invisibility, perhaps it’s time to celebrate the unignorable—the bad chairs, the frustrating UIs, the push handles on pull doors—designs that fail beautifully, teaching us more about our world and ourselves than perfection ever could.

Investigate a collection of atmospheric and contemporary UI/UX designs that merge mood with modernity. These designs are the signature of high-profile UI design agencies, known for their trendsetting approaches.

Tooltips are a very common pattern used in CSS for years. There are a lot of ways to approach tooltips in CSS, though some evoke headaches with all the magic numbers they require. In this article, Temani Afif presents modern techniques to create tooltips with the smallest amount of markup and the greatest amount of flexibility.

Jakob Nielsen’s 10 usability heuristics were defined from a factor analysis of the use of a much larger set of usability principles to explain a database of usability problems in development projects. The 10 heuristics in the final list from 1994 had the greatest explanatory power in this analysis, which is why they are still useful today.

In his Three Conversations in Design presentation at Convey UX Andrew Hogan shared trends in user experience jobs, scaling, and the impact of AI on designers. Here are my notes from his talk:

Designers are the right innovators for defining hybrid AI experiences, blending proactive and reactive intelligence