Using Touchstone Tours, UX researchers evaluate a product’s usability. The technique involves having participants go on a “tour” of the product or interface, followed by a series of tasks and prompts for them to reflect aloud as they complete them.

Test your usability knowledge by taking our quiz. All questions and answers are based on articles that we published last year.

Helpful career advice and goal-setting ideas to launch your career forward and get you where you want to be.

A step-by-step guide to finding and implementing them

An examination of ChatGPT and Dall-E’s capacity for UX. ChatGPT launched November 30th, and quickly exploded in popularity with over a million new users in it’s first week.

Outlook’s key design challenge is that of many heritage products: how do you chart a path forward that modernizes a beloved product, while also honoring its legacy and maintaining familiarity for the millions of people who rely on it?

Space is one of the core elements in design that is often overlooked. Proper spatial organization helps to achieve consistency between screens, pages, or even products. It also creates visual rhythm, limits decision-making, and helps to achieve better readability and scannability. In this guide, Paul Matvienko discusses the basics of defining a spatial system.

A micro-interaction is a small, focused interaction between a user and a product or service that serves a specific purpose or goal. Micro-interactions are often used to provide feedback, confirm actions, or guide users through a process.

Apps like BeReal and Mastodon broke out in 2022. It’s only the beginning.

This was a strange year as a UX Designer, where I received more lessons from outside the realm than within it. From helping my stakeholders understand me better to understand the impact AI has on design, these are the three most important lessons I’ve learned in 2022 to help me grow as a designer.