Category: usability
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Agile UX Manifesto
during a workshop to share ideas on how developers and stakeholders could work better with designers and user experience professionals, I jumped at the chance to create my own version.
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Leading Remote Teams
Right now, my team is remote. It’s a bit unusual, since we have a device lab and usually my programmers test systems side by side with audio visual engineers. How did we make this shift? How can you, as a leader or coach or team member, adapt to remote work? Here are my top tips…
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Five Tips for Using Color
Many developers and designers I talk to are very frustrated when it comes time to pick colors for a project. It can be hard to choose the right color or set of colors for a project. Here are five quick tips for using color in your next project so you can make the best user…
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Evaluating digital products and sites using heuristics
I’ve been in this scenario and you probably have too: there is a new feature on a site or in a product to review but time is short. What is the most efficient and fastest way to get quality internal feedback? How many people do you really need to review and help with testing before final sign…
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Ten Question Icon Usability Checklist
I’ve put together ten questions that will help designers and developers QA their next project. I created this quick checklist based on discussions with other professionals and computer science students. I hope you find it helpful. First, what are icons and why do we use them? Icons are a quick way for us to visually…
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Adobe XD Test Drive
I recently needed to create wireframes for a project and decided to take Adobe XD (also known as Adobe Experience Design) for a spin. Here are my “play-by-play” impressions. * *note: Some of the issues in this article were addressed by Adobe in recent patches. I wrote the original version of this article several months ago…
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When should card patterns be used?
I read a very interesting article on Medium recently by Rob Gill about a real world struggle with using cards. After a new feature launch on a sports news site, there was the usual amount of user backlash to change. However, some of the user feedback gave valuable insights about why they thought the new…