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All the thumbnails link to the Lovely Discoveries #2 list on Usabilla Discover. Request an invite if you haven’t yet and create lists like this yourself!
Discoveries
Author Archives: Jurian Baas
Discoveries
Links
Usabilla UX Tweet Scoop – Week 9 of 2012
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Tara Hornor gets the most out of Effective Minimalism in Experience Design (UX Booth).
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A usability study on how touchscreens are handled: Finger-Friendly Design: Ideal Mobile Touchscreen Target Sizes (Smashing Magazine).
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Helen Walters on 4 Elements That Make A Good User Experience Into Something Great (Co.Design)
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Lukas Mathis describes the things that make webOS better designed for doing work than iOS in Please Steal These webOS Features (Ignorethecode).
- Dereke van Harms made a beautiful HTML presentation on his take on The New Web Design Guidelines
Announcements
Announcing Usabilla Discover
Every designer we know has a scattered selection of images, Evernote clippings, or bookmarks of inspirational design elements. We think collecting and curating UI elements on webpages can be much better and easier. That’s why we are happy to announce Usabilla Discover.
Usabilla Discover allows you to collect and curate UI elements, build and share your own UI library with HTML snippets (not just images) and follow other users for inspiration. Because every element is categorized and tagged, filtering is easy and powerful. For example, see positively rated headers by all users, or Yoeri’s favorite menus. You can also create and share your own lists with discoveries: see Paul’s quickly growing list overview, or my list of the best discoveries of the week.
Theory
Thinking About Design, Fast and Slow
The premise of Daniel Kahneman’s book Thinking, Fast and Slow is that we employ two very different ways of thinking. The book is very dense, and a highly recommended read. Kahneman says that the main goal of his book is to arm people with a better vocabulary about thinking, which in turn allows them to understand our biases, decisions and behavior better. While that is great for everyone, I think it’s especially valuable for designers. It lets you see that most of the time, there is no ‘one’ user, but one with multiple modes of thinking. Most good designers have observed their users interacting with their products multiple times. Insights from this book let you put more weight on these observations.
Links
Usabilla UX Tweet Scoop – Week 8 of 2012
Best links this week:
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Read how to make responsive navigation with CSS and HTML on Smashing Magazine Coding
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Trent Walton explains: “To design responsive websites effectively and responsibly, I had to completely redefine the way I view the web”. Go read redefined, it’s great.
Discoveries
Lovely Design Discoveries
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We are happy to say we are working on a new tool for designers. Usabilla Discover lets you clip, rate and save design elements on websites. We are currently in closed beta, but you can request an invite here. As a sneak peak, let us show you some nice discoveries already made. The thumbnails take you to the discovery page.
Design
The Future of Customer Interaction Tools
Because we offer Software as a Service, we need to keep clients happy month after month. A renewed membership is just as important to us as spreading the gospel of easy design feedback to people who haven’t heard of us. If we want our customers to love our service, we have to focus on the UX of long-term relationships. This is what we want to achieve, interaction by interaction:
Links
Usabilla UX Tweet Scoop – Week 7 of 2012
Best links this week:
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Robin Rendle shines on Smashing Magazine with A Craft Of Consequences: Reader, Writer And Emotional Design.
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Vishal Mehta lays some misconceptions about what usability is to rest in Fact vs. Fiction: What Usability is Not.
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An interesting hypothesis: The bot Google uses to crawl the web is actually Chrome. The article is very technical, but worth it.
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Vicky Teinaki cover the top mistakes UX designers make on Johnny Holland.
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Jeff Atwood says that you must Listen to Your Community, But Don’t Let Them Tell You What to Do
Links
Usabilla UX Tweet Scoop – Week 6 of 2012
Best links this week:
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Zach Holman explains how Apple commands their words in The Apple Voice.
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Ever wondered why paragraphs always have a clean break when reading words written on the web? Read Islands of Thought in Macrotypography for an interesting perspective.
Links
Usabilla UX Tweet Scoop – Week 5 of 2012
Stuff we liked this week:
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Justin Mifsud shows five signs that indicate website usability problems, and more importantly, how to improve your site should you show one of these symptoms.
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Yiannis Konstantakopoulos tells us what successful products teach us about web design on Smashing Magazine. It’s mostly a strong case for constant iteration. It’s a very good read.
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Joshua Johnson has a look at Pinterest, and tells us why it is so dang amazing.