Users will always choose the easiest option, so if we want a competitive advantage we must focus on simplicity.

A Tweetstorm expanded.

Low-contrast text may be trendy, but it is also illegible, undiscoverable, and inaccessible. Instead, consider more usable alternatives.

What if an interface has no (graphic) interface? Matty Mariansky introduces us to designing conversational UIs.

Самыми вечными тенденциями являются те, которые можно по-разному сочетать друг с другом и использовать для различных целей. Так, новейшая тенденция веб дизайна

Users can think they see the entire web page, although additional content exists off-screen. Designers must help users discover all relevant information.

Денис Кузнецов, менеджер отдела разработки поисковых интерфейсов в «Яндексе», рассказал для vc.ru о том, как разрабатываются интерфейсы для людей с ограниченными возможностями: что необходимо учитывать в процессе проектирования, какие проверки проводить и что означает доступность сервиса.

Karol Machi z Retro-Foto zrobił i podesłał nam mapę z cudzysłowami w Europie. Przydatna, jeśli piszecie coś w innym języku. Swoją drogą uczyłem się francuskiego trzy lata, a nikt mi nie powiedział,...

I come to Facebook to share all kinds of things with people I care about — from celebratory posts about practicing yoga for 60 days…

By studying underserved communities, the tech giant hopes to improve the user experience for everyone.

Increasingly used as a crutch for link labels, 'Learn More' is a vague call to action and also inaccessible. Instead, use descriptive labels that help users predict the next page.

Designers use rounded corners so much today that they're more of an industry standard than a design trend. Not only are they found on software user interfaces, but hardware product designs as wel

This video is about doors. Joe Posner investigates, with some help from 99% invisible, a wonderful podcast. Check them out here:  http://www.99pi.org

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There's a door on the 10th floor in the Vox Media office I hate so much. You probably know one of these too.  But it's not our fault.

And luckily, Roman Mars of 99% Invisible magically arrived in my cellphone to send me on a cross-country journey to find out the incredible surprises behind this common complaint:

Don Norman started complaining about doors over 25 years ago. Doors shouldn't need instructions – the shape of them can guide you through just fine.  So why do so many doors need instruction manuals right on the side of them?  

When most people complain about something, nothing happens. Don Norman is not most people – he's a psychologist and cognitive scientist.  Don Norman thought about, and wrote about his complaints so incredibly thoroughly that he changed the world.  99% Invisible's Roman Mars…

You started designing because you’re probably more creative than the average person. How in the world could being too creative kill your design? I always thought the more creative someone is, the better designer he or she must be. Then, I started studying design more and realized that it’s not all about creativity at all. […]

Every month we bring you the best new apps, frameworks, design and mobile resources, business resources, and more. Here we are at the end…

What is the best UX pattern to display products on an e-commerce website: pagination, a “Load more” button or infinite scrolling? At Baymard Institute, we’ve conducted several year-long large-scale usability studies of more than 50+ leading e-commerce websites. We tested (among other things) these three design patterns for loading products, both on desktop and mobile. Pagination is still the most popular way to load new items on a website because it ships by default in almost every single e-commerce platform. However, our usability test sessions found “Load more” buttons combined with lazy-loading to be a superior implementation, resulting in a more seamless user experience. We found that infinite scrolling can be downright harmful to usability — in particular, for search results and on mobile. However, it’s not black and white, because the performance of each method varies according to the context of the page.

You probably heard of the term **Vertical Rhythm** if you researched a little about typography on the web. It's one of the most important practices when working with typography. I've used Vertical Rhythm on all my sites ever since I read about it. One day, it struck me that I haven't had a clue why

Simple typography tips for great user interfaces.