Resources
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Articles
Are Apple capable of designing a usable mouse?
Remembering Jobs’ relentless approach to product design, and how a sufficient mouse design never came to be.
What You Should Know About User Experience Design
User experience, or UX, is a popular term in the technology and design industries today. Despite this, many are unsure what UX means or how to use the term correctly.
Design psychology and the neuroscience behind awesome UX
The human brain is lazy, biased, and prone to shortcuts.
Why every developer should learn UX — 5 tips for devs
User experience is fast becoming a buzz word within the developer community and it is an area that many developers often overlook.
The majority of UX professionals practice sympathy instead of empathy for their users.
Empathy in UX Design: What It Is and Why It’s Important
An empathic approach to UX design is an important step towards improving both your people skills, as well as the end products that will reach your users.
Information Scent: How Users Decide Where to Go Next
When deciding which links to click on the web, users choose those with the highest information scent — which is a mix of cues that they get from the link label, the context in which the link is shown, and their prior experiences.
Information Architecture 101: Techniques and Best Practices Without a clear understanding of how information architecture works, we can end up creating sites that are more confusing than they need to be or, at worst, make our content virtually inaccessible.
Card Sorting Beginner’s Guide: Improving Your Information Architecture
In this article, we’ll discuss card sorting, a tried and true technique for doing just that. We’ll go through some practical tips for running a card-sorting session, and also cover some examples.
Podcasts
The Nielsen Norman Group (NNg) UX Podcast is a podcast on user experience research, design, strategy, and professions, hosted by Senior User Experience Specialist Therese Fessenden.
UXPodcast™ is a twice-monthly digital design podcast sharing insights about business, technology and people since 2011. We want to push the boundaries of how user experience is perceived and boost your confidence in the work you do.
Being a great UX designer begins and ends with being a great human.
Figma Tutorials
Intro to Figma - Beginners guide to Figma Basics 16m:07s
Figma Masterclass for Beginners (2022 Updated) 31m:56s