We all know that it is going to happen. It’s not a question of if, but when Twitter will collapse. By the way: one day, Medium will follow. So will Instagram, YouTube, and TikTok. Or Mastodon.
Many people are now desperately waiting for their Twitter archives, hoping that t...
I have to admit that I used to be very skeptical about the entire topic of AI and algorithmic design, and how it is going to change and shape design on the web. To the point that I was reluctant to even try out Midjourney and DALL-E — there were enough of artifacts produced ...
Not every navigation item is equally important. Some items are more important or more frequently used, so they might deserve a little bit more spotlight in your navigation. In fact, if some items are more important than others, we can use the billboard pattern and display th...
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...
Imagine that you’ve just arrived to Tokyo. Full of impatience and excitement, you are just about to hit the road, yet there it comes: an urgent warning from your mobile provider, nudging you to top up your dwindling balance.
There isn’t anything cryptic on Stripe, with a...
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...
