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
From how designers, developers, and their colleagues in marketing come together to how businesses can deliver better digital experiences to their end users, let’s take a look at how design systems offer a solution for website owners’ critical business concerns.
The Internet is very powerful. Despite its ability and usefulness as a tool, recent trends and standards have rendered this globally available and enhancing technology into a space that is unpredictable and frustrating from a user experience.
“This is almost impressively bad.”
Understanding why UX is not enough and three ways to augment your skills
