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Your website is not for you — Websmith Studio
A note from a developer who keeps watching good design die in boardrooms.
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on: 2026-05-01
M3 Expressive: Engaging UX Design
Material’s latest evolution helps you make products even more engaging and easier to use.
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on: 2025-05-22
Practical UX for startups surviving without a designer
How to figure out what the user experience should be when you don’t have time, budget, or a design team.
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on: 2025-03-13
In Loving Memory of Square Checkbox
History of checkboxes and radio buttons in user interfaces
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on: 2025-01-29
The UX of LEGO Interface Panels - Interaction Magic
LEGO interface panels are beautiful, iconic, and great for learning interface design basics. I bought 52 of them from BrickLink to explore the design, layout and organisation of complex interfaces.
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on: 2024-11-29
UI = f(statesⁿ)
“UI is a function of state” is a pretty popular saying in the front-end world. In context (pun intended), that’s typically referring to application or component state. I thought I’d pull that thread a little further and explore all the states that can effect the UI layer…
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on: 2024-02-17
Push Notifications - What to Push, What Not to Push, and How Often
Sending helpful & engaging pushes, filtering annoying pushes, and finding the frequency sweet spot.
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on: 2024-01-02
10 Dark Patterns in UX Design and How to Avoid Them
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on: 2023-12-02
The Negative Impact of Mobile-First Web Design on Desktop
Mobile-first web designs cause significant usability issues when viewed on desktop. Content becomes overly dispersed across long scrolling pages with expansive white space and enlarged images and fonts, making it difficult for users to consume and understand the information.
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on: 2023-10-27
U.S. Web Design System (USWDS)
USWDS makes it easier to build accessible, mobile-friendly government websites.
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on: 2023-09-11
UX Pattern Analysis: Loading Feedback
Loading UX takes careful consideration of both the user's and the system's context to use the appropriate loading pattern.
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on: 2023-08-28
The UX Research Reckoning is Here - One Big Thought - Medium
UX Research, layoffs, research needs to change its focus to stay relevant
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on: 2023-05-30
Design notes on the 2023 Wikipedia redesign
No one fights harder for your rights
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on: 2023-03-16
UX Core
The first-of-its-kind and the biggest library of nudging strategies based on cognitive biases (thinking patterns)
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on: 2022-08-23
Hierarchy of Trust: The 5 Experiential Levels of Website Commitment
Sites must meet users' basic trust needs before asking for visitor information. The trust pyramid has 5 levels of user commitment, with separate design rules.
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on: 2022-07-12
A comprehensive list of UX design methods & deliverables
A map that displays all the touchpoints of the consumer with your brand, as well as the key internal processes involved in it. Useful to visualize the path followed by consumers across multiple…
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on: 2021-01-25
The ultimate guide to proper use of animation in UX
Nowadays it’s hard to impress or even surprise with an interface animation. It shows interactions between screens, explains how to use the application or simply directs a user’s attention. While…
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on: 2020-02-26
The Obvious UI is Often the Best UI - Google Design - Medium
Voltaire said, “le sens commun est fort rare”—common sense is very rare. Perhaps to realize that a certain decision is common sense, one has to have enough life experience to know the right path to…
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on: 2019-10-10
Menus with "Dynamic Hit Areas" | CSS-Tricks
Flyout menus! The second you need to implement a menu that uses a hover event to display more menu items, you're in tricky territory. For one, they should
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on: 2019-09-24
4 Rules for Intuitive UX
Obey the Law of Locality · ABD: Anything But Dropdowns · Pass the Squint Test · Teach by example
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on: 2019-08-19
The Lean UX Canvas – Jeff Gothelf – Medium
In most of my work these days I don’t often use an official canvas. I prefer to pick and choose the assumptions that can be found on the Business Model Canvas, Lean Canvas and others as appropriate…
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on: 2019-05-10
How to Report Errors in Forms: 10 Design Guidelines
Help users recover from errors by clearly identifying the problems and allowing users to access and correct fields easily.
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on: 2019-02-08
7 Rules for Creating Gorgeous UI (Part 1) – Erik D. Kennedy – Medium
If you went to art school or consider yourself a UI designer already, you will likely find this guide some combination of a.) boring, b.) wrong, and c.) irritating. That’s fine. All your criticisms…
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on: 2019-01-14
The Elements of UI Engineering — overreacted
What makes UI engineering difficult?
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on: 2018-12-31
Ask HN: What's the best book on modern UI/UX? | Hacker News
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on: 2018-12-12
Designs for a new admin theme [#3017785] | Drupal.org
Background Building a new admin theme is part of the Admin UI and JS modernization initiative. We’re proposing to update the administration look and feel through a new design system for the Drupal administration UI. A design system consists of visual and behavioural components and patterns that can be combined into user-friendly user interfaces. This Drupal admin design system is a project with its own deliverables (examples, documentation, tools, and resources).
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on: 2018-12-05
When It Comes To Personas, The Real Value Is In The Scenarios — UX Articles
Personas without scenarios are like characters with no plot. — Kim Goodwin
I’ve seen it happen many times. A team launches a project to identify user personas with all the best of intentions. They'll define three, four, sometimes as many ten or fifteen different personas. Then, when they’re all d
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on: 2018-11-26
The Best SaaS Landing page examples I’ve seen ( their secrets for conversi
SaaS Landing page inspiration is usually "pretty" but not conversion/result driven so in this article, I compiled the best SaaS Landing pages examples I've seen and broke-down their secrets for conversions!
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on: 2018-11-09
BBC GEL | Design Patterns Index
Patterns are a simple, reusable solution to a design problem.
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on: 2018-09-18
Design with Difficult Data · An A List Apart Article
Designing for the happy path—where users always enter ideal data and clients choose perfect images—can leave your layouts warped and broken when your users stray. Steven Garrity suggests you take a…
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on: 2018-09-07
Learning From Terminals to Design the Future of User Interfaces
How we overvalue the wrong technology and novel aspects of interface design at the expense of substantial gains to our productivity.
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on: 2018-08-04
Seven principles of effective digital navigation – Gerry McGovern – Medium
Design for forward momentum. Designing digital navigation is not that different from designing navigation for a road. You always want to be able to help people maintain their momentum and get to…
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on: 2018-08-02
The Art of Minimalism with UX
Minimalism is on the rise — but what is it? Is it the style of art that can be found in architecture, paintings, sculptures and design that eliminates all non-essential forms or features? Or is it a form of lifestyle where you declutter your life from all unnecessary things.
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on: 2018-05-08
Designing Windows 95’s User Interface – Socket 3
Three years ago I came across an interesting paper written up by a Microsoft employee, Kent Sullivan, on the process and findings of designing the new user interface for Windows 95. The web page ha…
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on: 2018-02-07
An Event Apart News: Resilience: Building a Robust Web That Lasts by Jeremy
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on: 2018-02-07
Against an Increasingly User-Hostile Web - Neustadt.fr
We are quietly replacing an open web that connects and empowers with one that restricts and commoditizes people. We need to stop it.
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on: 2017-11-02
Rebuilding slack.com – Several People Are Coding
In August, we released a major redesign of slack.com, and we want to give you a peek behind-the-scenes. Rebuilding our marketing website was a massive project that took careful coordination across a variety of teams, departments, and agencies. We implemented a redesign while overhauling all the under-the-hood code. Our aim was to address a few…
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on: 2017-10-13
Dark Patterns - User Interfaces Designed to Trick People
The original website about deceptive patterns (also known as “dark patterns”) - tricks used in websites and apps that make you do things that you didn't mean to, like buying or signing up for something.
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on: 2016-12-06
Growing a Business Website: Fix the Basics First
Clear content, simple navigation, and answers to customer questions have the biggest impact on business value. Advanced technology matters much less.
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on: 2016-12-06
Complexities of an infinite scroller | Blog | Chrome for Developers
Infinite scrollers are a common UI pattern. Here we explore how to implement this pattern in a memory conservative way that performs at 60fps.
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on: 2016-07-11
7 reasons why infinite scrolling is probably a bad idea
On more than one occasion I have found myself trying to convince team-mates that Infinite Scrolling and its close relative Show More is more likely to degrade the experience than improve it. I…
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on: 2016-06-25
» Autofill: What web devs should know, but don’t Cloud Four Blog
Many people know that you can scan your credit card in Mobile Safari. But how many web developers know how to create a form that supports that feature? Not many I’d bet. Auto-Fill Credit Card Forms Using Your iPhone’s Camera in iOS 8. Used with permission. It doesn’t…
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on: 2016-05-23
I analyzed 250 SaaS pricing pages — here’s what I found
We recently had a major overhaul of our pricing and landing page and wanted to get a good idea of what a high-converting pricing page looked like. We turned to the experts.
There ...
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on: 2015-12-23
User Onboarding Teardowns | UserOnboard | User Onboarding
Want to see how popular web apps handle their signup experiences? Let's deconstruct their user onboarding flows one screen at a time.
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on: 2015-12-15
Per un design dei servizi della pubblica amministrazione | Linee guida di d
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on: 2015-12-03
Introducing: U.S. Web Design Standards - U.S. Digital Service - Medium
This project was a collaboration between 18F and the U.S. Digital Service. The team was lead by Mollie Ruskin (USDS) and Julia Elman (18F) and made up of designers and developers in both groups…
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on: 2015-09-29
The Post-Mac Interface — Medium
In 1996 Don Gentner and Jakob Nielsen published a thought experiment, The Anti-Mac Interface. It’s worth a read. By violating the design principles of the entrenched Mac desktop interface, G and N…
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on: 2015-08-04
Inside the labs where Netflix is trying to make televisions suck less
Where the company is trying to shape the future of its service, and the next TV you buy
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on: 2015-05-24
The Death of the Login — Medium
The login wall was a necessary evil that users had to live with. Most often users were forced to login and in return were promised customization and personalization. The internet companies got email…
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on: 2015-03-04
How to design better websites by writing them first | Userbrain
Writing better websites with good onboarding! Improve website signup process and user onboarding experience. How to start designing great onboarding websites effectively.
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on: 2015-02-19
Passwordless authentication: Secure, simple, and fast to deploy ✩ Mozilla H
Passwordless is an authentication middleware for Node.js that improves security for your users while being fast and easy to deploy. The last months were very exciting for everyone interested in ...
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on: 2014-10-15
Framer
The web builder for stunning sites. Design and publish modern sites at any scale.
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on: 2014-07-03
THE ILLUSION OF LIFE
The 12 basic principles of animation were developed by the 'old men' of Walt Disney Studios, amongst...
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on: 2014-05-03