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pablohoney
The Bauhaus in a block
This is it. The verge of this 2019, the brink of a decade, and the conclusion of a century from the founding of one of the most significant schools of Design. The Bauhaus has proven to be inspiringly contagious in length and in varied fields. Design came into being in 1919… Bruno Munari Many were…
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Joen A.
How To: Good UI Demo Videos
Whether it’s for demoing an existing feature, recording a “how-to”, or for a product launch, the quality of the demo video you record matters.
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L. Jeffrey Zeldman
The Beauty Trap in Design
My primary responsibility as a UX designer and creative director is to get inside the mind of the client and their customer. To think like they do, anticipating stumbling blocks they may encounter even if a trained professional web designer would sail briskly through.
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boonerang
Pickers & Clickers
Alternate title: Pick-a-little, Talk-a-little Over the last 18 months or so, I’ve logged 200+ hours of moderating, watching, and reading user research sessions. Entrepreneurs with dreams of success, bloggers who love murder mysteries, and everyone in-between. When thinking about lessons to draw from these sessions, I returned to a note I scribbled while watching someone…
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Kjell Reigstad
Designing in the open
Throughout my career, most of my design work has been produced in relatively controlled environments: It was covered under strict NDAs, or it was presented to a very select group of colleagues, clients, or other stakeholders. Design was done in closed boxes, where all work was hidden away until launch. I got pretty used to…
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Joshua Wold
The value of quick visual storytelling
Story telling matters as a foundational part of communication between people. You can tell stories by writing, speaking, filming, drawing, coding, and much more. When dealing with humans, assume miscommunication. If you’re trying to explain something, part of it will get lost in the transition from your brain to the other person’s ears. Count on it.…
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Joshua Wold
A widget becomes a block
For the past few months we’ve been converting WooCommerce widgets in WordPress to blocks. Widgets allow you to add a small feature, such as a paragraph of text, onto your website. I recently did a talk at WooSesh where I went over the work we’ve been doing. You can checkout the video, and also read…
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Filippo Di Trapani
Synthesizing usability test results
This week we got another usability study in the books by testing the most recent iteration of our signup and onboarding flow. Thanks to some help from our design operations team I was able to pull it off without a hitch. All I had to do was fill in a request, slightly massage a template…
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Chris O'Sullivan
Offline Principles
Cowritten with Megs Fulton Many of us design and build apps in air-conditioned offices in major cities, using the latest devices with perfect internet connections. We don’t often think about how apps should work without a strong internet connection. It’s no wonder so many apps feel clunky or broken with a flaky internet connection,…
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Jeff Ong
What is a Creative Technologist?
Within Automattic Design, we have two communities of practice: “creative technology” and “product experience”. Every designer falls into one of these two communities. Having this distinction helps us to create balanced teams, as well as sharpen craft and develop mastery among our designers. What is a creative technologist? For our purposes, the basic distinction of…
By Eriko Kawakami
A fully distributed team making the web a better place.
A fully distributed team making the web a better place.
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