Design
How to “Remote User Test”
When your user base consists of 3.5 million people from pretty much every country, there are many things to consider while conducting user tests. User behaviors and mindsets change ...
UI/UX
Design
What it’s like to spend 326 days on a massive product release for 3.2M users
At JotForm, our users matter to us. A lot. After all, we have 3.2 million of them. They create forms and receive responses through us every day. We want to make our users’ experience ...
Design
Hacking Usability with Psychological Principles
There’s no escaping it. Psychology in design is everywhere. It’s why Facebook notifications are red—the color of urgency—to demand our attention. It’s why glossy magazines ...
Design
How to use Chrome DevTools like a Pro
As the name implies Chrome Developer Tools is a tool that allows web developers to interfere and manipulate applications via the browser. With this tool you can: Manage interface ...
Design
UX Design: What Augmented Reality Can Do for the User Experience
Even outside of games and questionable pleasures, the possibilities of augmented reality are massive. How can the user experience benefit from it in UX design?
Design
The Human Factor: Why is There So Much Bad Design?
Bad design is everywhere, while there’s still a lack of good design. Why’s that? Are there not enough experts? Are they being misdirected somehow? Is it human nature? ...
Design
Design the Smallest Spaces: Atomization is the Future
Modern design needs to work everywhere, not just on the desktop. In order for that to work, it has to be as compartmentalized as much as possible. In the following article, I’ll ...
Business Online
Web Design: User Personas Define Your Target Audience
The “user” is a far too abstract description of the people that might want to use your new web project. You can neither orient nor optimize your project towards a ...
Design
Atomic Design: How to Design a Modular Website
Often, technical terms in web design aren’t more than empty words. The term “Atomic Design” is one of them. All it does is allow its inventor to spread his philosophy ...
Design
Design Critique: Avoid the Sandtraps, and Use the Instrument Efficiently
Now if that word didn’t sound so negative. From a purely phonetic point of view, design critique sounds devastating. In the following article, we’ll bravely move past ...
Design
Beauty is Not a Design Principle: Let Go of Empty Words!
Design principles are supposed to help you make important decisions in the design process that conform to client and purpose. Here, empty words, like beauty or simplicity, only help so ...
Design
Advanced Information Architecture: Many Paths, One Goal
When looking into information architecture for the first time, you learn to prefer the linear information access. This is what I told you in my article on the basics of the topic. Not ...
Design
Aging Design: How to Keep Your Websites Young
Websites are like people. The birth is where the decay begins. Just like yourself, you can keep your website in good nick. This takes good care. Find out how exactly that’s ...
Design
6 Tips for Intuitive Web Design
Intuitive web design does not mean that you as a designer should be able to whip up a website without any thought being required. Intuitive web design is to be viewed from the user ...
Design
Webdesign: The Basics of Information Architecture
Information access should be well organized and structured in order for the one searching for information to be able to find it quickly. This takes extensive thought in advance of the ...
Design
Brutalism in Web Design: As Simple as Possible, or Even Simpler?
In general, the best design is always the one that is so simple it doesn’t need an explanation. The best design has an intuitive interface and is understood without words. That ...
