Category: User Experience
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Does Color Affect Mood in User Interfaces?
In physical spaces, color can unconsciously affect our mood. But does color affect mood in user interfaces? Not exactly. If you are about to paint a room, you’ll find no shortage of web articles ready to give you advice about what colors to choose. Some of these articles will assert that color can affect our…
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When Well-Meaning UI Text Makes Things Less Usable
If you want users to successful, it helps to know how users actually read your UI text (spoilers: they don’t), and how more text can ruin everything. A real-life example of well-meaning UI text making things worse Years ago, I joined a large desktop application project as the lead designer, taking over for another vendor.…
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Real-Life Lessons from Design Testing Failures
Whether you’re a startup or a mature corporation, you should user-test new features and UI designs. Sometimes design testing will end in failure, but you can learn from your mistakes, as well as others’. Here are some lessons learned from real-life design testing failures. When you redesign your product, you do it to satisfy your…
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Try a 5 Second Test to See if Your UI Design Makes the Right Impression
If your visual design needs to make a specific impression on your users, don’t rely on your project team’s assessment of the UI. Try this quick 5 second test with actual users to confirm your brand goals are being achieved. Is your product strategy dependent on achieving a specific initial brand impression? There might be…
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When Beta Testing, Verify Brand Experience at the End
When beta testing your app or website with real users, you’ll want to save your brand experience questions for the end of the session. Here’s why. What are your users’ impressions of your product? How do they feel about it? Do they think of your product as fun? Corporate? Simple? Friendly? etc.? These types of…
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Adobe XD Update Adds Two Long-Awaited Features
The June 2018 Adobe XD update improves the tool’s prototyping capabilities by adding fixed-position elements and overlay support, among other enhancements. Just last month, Adobe put their UX design and prototyping tool—Adobe XD—on a promising path of improvement while simultaneously making the tool free to use for everyone. This month’s update—available as of June 19—fulfills…
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Project Tips for When Your UI Design Includes ALL CAPS Text
From design and implementation to translation concerns, here are some tips for your project when your UI design includes ALL CAPS text elements. Whether you’re following a standard design language like Material Design, or have developed your own custom look and feel, your new website or app design might include UI elements that use uppercase…
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User Experience Article Roundup – Alternative User Research and Growing as a Designer
In this edition of User Experience Article Roundup: free user research alternatives, inspiration from a subway map, what happens when robots sound human, and more. Cheap and free under-the-radar alternatives to field visits It’s vital to understand your users, particularly when it comes to the context in which they use your product. Site visits with…
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MORE Reasons to Use a Longitudinal Study to Test Your App
Here are more examples of insights that a longitudinal study can provide about your web or mobile application and its users, to help you improve your user experience and increase profitability. Earlier this month, I revisited longitudinal studies and provided a number of specific-ish examples of valuable insights you might gain from running one. To refresh…
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