UX
![The Best Figma Plugins to Enhance Your Design Workflow in 2023](jpg/1680328749wordpress-contact-forms.jpg)
In this article, we'll explore the top Figma plugins that every designer should consider using to enhance their design workflow in 2023.
![UI Design Inspiration: Do You Think About Your Textures?](jpg/1655692417featrue-pattern.jpg)
Looking for UI design inspiration? Rather than adding a new color or changing a font, have you thought about your textures?
![An Introduction to Wireframing with Figma](jpg/1613785932figma-wireframing-1200.jpg)
Wireframes are important for ensuring good UX. Learn how to use Figma to figure out the best UX design workflow for your layout.
![How to Improve User Experience with Accurate User Feedback](png/1609807896better-ui-feedback.png)
You submit a form—but get no feedback. Wha? Did it submit? Learn how to make sure your UI elements provide feedback to users—so that you don't lose them!
![A Guide to Positive Reinforcement in UX Design](jpg/1606332332pr.jpg)
Michiel Mulders explains the meaning of positive reinforcement in terms of UX, and offers practical tips for improving the experience of website visitors.
![5 Tips for Writing Better Microcopy](jpg/1605883851uxcopy.jpg)
Michiel Mulders discusses the importance of microcopy for enhancing UX, and offers five tips for helping users better understand your site.
![5 Ways to Improve User Experience with Machine Learning](jpg/1605680313uxml.jpg)
Improve your user experience with machine learning. Learn five strategies where machine learning solutions can realistically solve design problems today.
![Learnability in Web Design: 5 Best Practices](jpg/1603371096learnability-1200-squashed.jpg)
Michiel introduces five best practices you can use to provide a more learnable interface to your users, from consistency to familiarity and storification.
![Deliver Better Data-Informed UX Using Sisense Embedded Analytics](jpg/1596008165art-director.jpg)
We dig deeper into the build versus buy dilemma of adding analytics capabilities to apps and explain why it’s better to use embedded analytics.
![How to Design for Screen Readers with Adobe XD CC](png/1582544632screen-readers.png)
Daniel Schwarz offers tips on designing for screen readers, and walks through how Adobe XD CC’s design handoff and voice prototyping features help with this.
![The 9 Best Mind Mapping Tools for Designers](jpg/1559872291mind-mapping.jpg)
Daniel Schwarz looks at the types of mind maps that are used in UX, and the mind mapping tools that are used to create them.
![How Analytics Helped Solve a UX Issue](jpg/1559787924analytics-ux.jpg)
Daniel Schwarz investigates various ways Google Analytics can uncover how your users are navigating your website and to give insights into user journeys and potential problem areas.
![A Deep Dive into User Research Methods](png/1559781246post-its.png)
Mark Seabridge provides an overview of the fundamentals for each of the most commonly used user research methods, providing direction on when to use them — and more importantly, why.
![Content as UX: Building a More Human Web](jpg/1559616288content-as-ux.jpg)
Georgina Laidlaw explains why content is a vital part of user experience, and suggests looking at content in a different way — looking at content as UX, rather than as something for filling spaces.
![15 Top Prototyping Tools Go Head-to-Head](png/15062700562016-04-02-adobe-xd-from-a-digital-ui-ux-designer-perspective-8.png)
Dave Kearney compares the top 15 prototyping tools disrupting the design tool market today, with video overviews of each one.
![How User Research Turned a Good App into a Great One](jpg/1548992597cook-app-feature.jpg)
Jodie Moule tells the story of how she came to launch her successful Cook app, and how user research was all-important in making it the best app it could be.
![Working with Design Thinking, Lean and Agile](png/1548988942design-thinking.png)
Amanda Stockwell explains Design Thinking, Lean UX, and Agile, and how to implement elements of each for your team. Each approach is meant to solve a particular problem, and elements of each may be useful, so you’ll have to find what works for your team.
There were 5 Jacksons and 5 gold rings but Clark Wimberly has 5 golden principles that guide his product design. Read them. Recite them. Remember them well.
![Customer Journey Maps: A Day in the Life of a Customer](jpg/1548991216customer-journey-maps.jpg)
Mads Soegaard introduces customer journey maps, explaining how to measure customer engagement, how much customers feel they’re in a relationship with your product, business or brand, and the best tools for getting the job done.
![7 Awesome Wireframing Tools You Should Be Using](jpg/1548987457wireframing-tools.jpg)
Daniel Schwarz introduces wireframing — a design exercise that can radically improve user experience — and looks at the best wireframing tools.
![How to Speed Up Your UX with Skeleton Screens](jpg/1466400827waiting.jpg)
Delivering a speedy UX isn't all about code and servers – it's about how things feel. Chris shows you how to use 'skeleton screens' to speed up your UX.
![What’s Really Behind Most UX Issues](png/1545369870ux-fear.png)
Joe Natoli looks behind the scenes to discover the real cause behind most UX issues, finding that it's not lack of staff, awareness or expertise, but something a whole lot deeper: misalignment of individual intent — personal, organizational and political. Here's what you can do about it.
![8 Tips for Improving Bootstrap Accessibility](jpg/1517967118bootstrap-accessibility.jpg)
Rhiana Heath looks at Bootstrap accessibility issues with Bootstrap 4, showing how developers can test for problems and what can be done to fix them.
![How to Track Ecommerce Transactions with Google Analytics](jpg/1513903229tracking-conversions.jpg)
Craig Buckler shows how, with a small amount of code, you can use Google Analytics to track online shop transactions and every product purchased.
![Developing the User Experience in Your Enterprise Applications](jpg/1513572962idea1__1_.jpg)
This article discusses the importance of considering UX in enterprise applications, to remember that the ones who build it are different to the end users.
![Getting to Know Your Users With Analytics](jpg/1509076144nik-macmillan-280300.jpg)
There’s a lot of data available in your analytics package that will help build up your knowledge of who’s visiting your website.
![Designing Form Layout: Color](jpg/1509075909kelli-tungay-324329.jpg)
Human beings are sensitive to color. We process it without us even realizing, and we can’t help noticing differences. This is useful in form design.
![Designing Form Layout: Spacing](jpg/1509075803d-ng-tr-n-qu-c-104958.jpg)
Human beings see things that are close to each other as being related. Conversely, things that are not related usually have some space between them.
![Designing Form Layout: Alignment](jpg/1509075679tamarcus-brown-131428.jpg)
Create a straight, unobstructed, vertical path to completion. Now it's faster for your form to be filled out, and it looks neater and simpler too.
![Understanding the Core Concepts of User Research](jpg/1509075557clay-banks-258326.jpg)
In this section, we’re going to run through 10 concepts. These form the basic building blocks of effective user research design.