We all have our opinions about infinite scroll, and usually not very good ones. This has a number of good reasons.
With infinite scroll, the sheer number of options is often overwhelming. There is no easy way to navigate between the “old” and “new” segments in the list. We d...
Dealing with complex filters in enterprise environments can be quite a challenge. Usually we know where to place them, but not necessarily how to show them. What if you have literally hundreds of these filters? Showing them all at once might be quite intimidating, to say the...
Copywriting is difficult. Staring at the blank screen can feel daunting, but so does finding just the right words for that landing page. Let’s take a look at some copywriting tools that you might find useful in such situations.
1. SpeakHuman.Today #
SpeakHuman.Today is a gr...
Design critiques often undermine trust and crush team spirit. But they don’t have to. Here are a few helpful strategies, templates and articles that I found helpful to run better design critiques.
Key Takeaways #
Explain the problem before showing any work.
Review previ...
Many organizations focus primarily on data coming from their analytics. This usually includes beautiful dashboards with data points and graphs on bounce rates, exit rates, time spent on site, navigation funnels and most used features or pages. Design KPIs are driven by numbe...
Admittedly, there might be very good reasons for making buttons disabled by default, but there are also scenarios when disabled buttons turn out to be a disastrous design pattern. Let’s look into common usability issues with disabled buttons, how to fix them, and when disabl...
When we design interfaces, we rarely think about error messages first. But a strategic and thorough design of these messages can be critical for businesses — especially if they struggle with high abandonment. Error messages can make or break the experience in situations when...
To get better at estimates, we need to know just how much productive time we have, and how much work we need to complete. Both need a lot of planning to avoid surprises down the line.
There are many unknowns that shape your timing: we need to discover them first. Illustr...
Filters are everywhere. They are used in pretty much every interface that features more than a handful of data points. It’s not necessarily just the sheer amount of data that is difficult to make sense of though; it’s the complexity and lack of consistency that the data usua...
Too often, links on the web don’t get the attention they deserve. Their appearance often follows the brandbook, and interaction seems to be so obvious that it doesn’t even come up in design discussions. Let’s fix it — and explore how we can make links better.
1. Link Underli...
If you ever had to design a multi-lingual website, you probably know the drill. Usually it’s not just a matter of translation. Eventually, labels get too lengthy to work everywhere, and we need to dedicate a lot of attention to currencies, dates, different word order, plural...
Every usability study reveals the same story: hiding important navigation is harmful, especially on pages where people tend to navigate a lot. In fact, digital experiences typically have two kinds of pages: navigation pages and content/task pages.
Navigation pages are t...
You've just signed up for a service, yet here it comes — the disruptive, annoying, attention-demanding onboarding tutorial. It’s right there, asking for attention; yet chances are high that you will never find out what it was all about because you’ll be swiftly dismissing it...
Let me ask you a simple question: what’s the role of a PM? Or more specifically, what’s the difference between product managers, product owners and program managers? And how are they different from project managers or technical leads?
If you know the answer, you can probably...
When we make purchasing decisions, we often rely on expertise from people like us who have already purchased that item. And so we seek user ratings, often looking for a high enough review score and a good number of reviews.
In fact, 95% of users rely on reviews to make their...
Imagine a shiny newsletter pop-up. A pop-up making its splendid appearance on an eCommerce site just as you are about to make your way to a product page. You didn’t even have a chance to explore a single product yet; nor did you have a chance to learn about prices and materi...
For the last day of this year’s Independent Type Foundry Advent Calendar, we’re back in Berlin. NaN is a foundry and type design practice “balancing weirdness and wisdom” that was founded by designer Luke Prowse. In late 2021, Luke was joined by Jean-Baptiste Morizot, who ha...
For the last day of this year’s Independent Type Foundry Advent Calendar, we’re back in Berlin. NaN is a foundry and type design practice “balancing weirdness and wisdom” that was founded by designer Luke Prowse. In late 2021, Luke was joined by Jean-Baptiste Morizot, who ha...
Typotheque is a type design studio based in The Hague, Netherlands. Founded in 1999 by Peter Biľak, who also teaches typeface design at the renowned postgraduate course TypeMedia at the Royal Academy of Art in The Hague, the foundry is well-known for the excellent design qua...
Typotheque is a type design studio based in The Hague, Netherlands. Founded in 1999 by Peter Biľak, who also teaches typeface design at the renowned postgraduate course TypeMedia at the Royal Academy of Art in The Hague, the foundry is well-known for the excellent design qua...
