5-Card Friday - Archives
A Bi-Weekly Update from the ITS UX Team
2022
- 6-24-2022 – How to Get Non-Designers to Use and Support the Design System?; How To Measure Success as a Designer?; How Evernote designs its fantastic Onboarding Flow; ACW Trash Feature; CAS E-book Integration
- 6-10-2022 – Can a Website Sitemap Create Better UX? UX Sitemap Guidelines; 5 Best Practices for Designing Effective Buttons; How to maintain quality with a UX checklist; Accessible Designs Make Better Products: Workday’s Story; 6 Ways to Design Value into Your Membership Model
- 2-18-2022 – Wordle UX; Comprehensive Anatomy of Design Thinking Workshops; How Dropdown Onboards New Users; Updates to the ITS UX Team's Pattern Library; Calculating ROI for Design Projects
2021
- 12-10-2021 – Storyboarding in UX Design; Accessible Content Design for Emojis; The Value of Copywork in UI Design: The UX of Notifications | How to Master the Art of Interrupting; The Differences Between UX Writing and Content Strategy
- 11-12-2021 – 9 commonly misused UX design terms; Should you fix a design error in the middle of user testing?; Accessibility for Ecommerce: 3 best practices for navigational links (73% of sites fail); New Academic Writer/IDEM screens; Amazon's, Bol's, Etsy's, Walmart's, and Zalando's ecommerce homepages
- 10-15-2021 – A Simple Method to Analyze Task Flow; 8 UX writing lessons taught by Winnie the Pooh and friends; Staying Human in the Age of Big Tech; 20 ideas for better data visualization; UX Personas are useless. Unless created properly.
- 10-1-2021 – Best excercises for problem framing; Empty states in complex applications; UX & agile; Designing modern tables; Inclusive UX in an era of anxiety
- 9-17-2021 – ITS UX definition of done; Customer journey mapping; Accessible front-end components; 10 tips for designing better sign-up forms; Spacing in UI
- 9-3-2021 – Mobile UX Design: Key Principles; Great Alternatives to Hamburger Menus; Building an Accessibility Library; Onboarding: best move for user retention in mobile apps; Assumptions about users to banish from your brain forever
- 8-20-2021 – Best Practices for Onboarding; Effective Writing For Your UI: Things to Avoid; Optimizing the Usability of Online Forms; Make These Changes to Meet Web Design Accessibility Standards; The Application of Cognitive Psychology to User-Interface Design
- 8-6-2021 – Infinite scrolling vs. pagination; Design a perfect search box; Accessible auto suggest; Three levels of pain points in customer experience; Designing persuasive banners
- 7-23-2021 – Designing UI cards; 4 lessons from Airbnb's Brian Chesky; Mobile cart summary page; You're not still using "Read More" are you?; Diversity in design leads to great user experiences
- 7-9-2021 – The definitive guide to the difference between filters and facets; Don't use "click here"; New Colors section in the IUX Team's Pattern Library; Local navigation is a valuable orientation and wayfinding aid; Radio buttons: Select one by default or leave all unselected?
- 5-28-2021 – Every machine learning team needs a UX researcher; What the heck is UX marketing?; 10 cancellation flow examples and why they work; 8 innovative UX practices to simplify logins; How microinteractions improve your UX design
- 5-14-2021 – Neuroscience and UX; Best practices for modal design; How to build better digital experiences with UX writing; Email Preference center is live; Reducing cognitive overload
- 4-30-2021 – Why your organization needs product principles; 3 design choices that make WhatsApp the best instant messenger; What does it mean to be "inclusive" in UX research?; Pagination component updated in the IUX Pattern Library; How TikTok design hooks you up
- 4-16-2021 – Applying white space; The ADA checklist; How to do A/B Testing; Design systems 101; Less is more
- 4-2-2021 – UI & Sprint by Google Ventures; Guide to list UI design (principles and examples); Users Love Change - Combatting a UX myth; The business case for product inclusion; 13 tips for improving landing page design
- 3-19-2021 – UI & UX micro-tips; Top vs side navigation; UX research cheat sheet; Accessible patterns; Cross-cultural design
- 3-5-2021 – Think about content holistically, choose images wisely; 10 small design mistakes we still make; Awesome design diagrams; PayPal's (confusing) money input field UX; The myths of color contrast accessibility
- 2-19-2021 – Tooltips and popovers had been updated and added to the Pattern Library; A simple introduction to personas; Using empathy for design inclusion; designing a healthy society; Material form inputs redesigned
- 2-5-2021 – SEO Checklist; Top 10 user frustrations on the web; Daily ethical design; User onboarding: Is HEY email worth it? (case study); Visual hierarchy in UX
- 1-22-2021 – 9 best healthcare websites; Building habit-forming products; Moving away from pre-COVID perceptions; Remote work diary; How Atlassian's design teams go from idea to execution
- 1-8-2021 – 10 Usability heuristics for user interface design; The 5 main anti-trends in design; 8 design guidelines for complex applications; Top 10 UX articles of 2020; Top 10 UX videos of 2020
2020
- 12-11-2020 – The cognitive overload happening on your screen right now (how app icons are fighting for our lower attention spans; 2020 UI & UX trends; From tasks to tricks: The UX of Among Us; Custom Dimensions Data Studio report; 10 best web design books ever written
- 11-13-2020 – 10 tips to design more inclusive products; Progressive disclosure; Average UX improvements are shrinking over time; 5 things that are killing your landing page; Cognitive science and social platform addictions
- 10-30-2020 – Location of Users Data Studio report; Readability and the optimal line length; Mail ballot usability; Dos and don'ts on designing for accessibility; Bol replicates Airbnb's experiment which confirms a better customer rating format
- 10-16-2020 – How to solve a design problem; Best practices for search results; Airbnb A/B test on auto suggested dates; Spatial memory and UX design; How to create customer-centric landing pages
- 10-2-2020 – Etsy's product quantity options A/B test; Accordion icons; Ten modern layouts with one line of CSS; The psychology behind TikTok's addictive feed; Fonts behind 30 famous logos
- 9-18-2020 – Amazon discovers that showing structured product details is better; 11 Ways to add more visual weight; The design community must not stay silent; 4 rules for intuitive UX; The principle of common region
- 9-4-2020 – Fonts in use; APA2020 Virtual: GA, GSC, and Ads reports; 8 handy tips on CTA button design; How an improvement to APA PsycNet helped over 100,000 users; Character count added to Pattern Library
- 8-21-2020 – Wireframe podcast; Airbnb A/B tests higher "Reserve" button position; Proximity principle in visual design; HTML vocabulary; CSS vocabulary
- 8-7-2020 – Bad UX design; Guide to design; Developing a North Star product experience; Best practices for microinteractions; Pattern Library ITalk (7-23-2020)
- 7-24-2020 – Factors of success for new product development; Amazon's full vs. fixed width layout A/B test; Success states design; Age & gender of APA's users; Design inspiration search tool (Muzli Search)
- 7-10-2020 – Favicon & iTouch icons in the Pattern Library; CSS animated Google fonts; Writing and designing user-friendly error messages; APA PsycNet "get access flow" usability study; Searching vs. browsing
- 6-26-2020 – Exposed menu or dropdown options UI pattern; Communicating changes throughout a buyer's journey (COVID-19 case study); New IDEM & MyAPA Data Studio dashboard; Top traffic channels for APA's web apps; Google's featured snippet to web page content highlight feature
- 6-12-2020 – Online food shopping during COVID-19; Modals vs. page decision making framework; Using affordances in UIs; UI vs. UX; Psychology in UX design
- 5-29-2020 – What is UX?; ITS UX Pattern Library; Ads on the Dictionary of Psychology site; APA's website and application visitors and device category; Web accessibility