Usability
![How to Improve User Experience with Accurate User Feedback](https://uploads.sitepoint.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/1609807896better-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](https://uploads.sitepoint.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/1606332332pr.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](https://uploads.sitepoint.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/1605883851uxcopy.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](https://uploads.sitepoint.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/1605680313uxml.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](https://uploads.sitepoint.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/1603371096learnability-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.
![How to Design for Screen Readers with Adobe XD CC](https://uploads.sitepoint.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/1582544632screen-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.
![Working with Design Thinking, Lean and Agile](https://uploads.sitepoint.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/1548988942design-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.
![How to Speed Up Your UX with Skeleton Screens](https://uploads.sitepoint.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/1466400827waiting.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](https://uploads.sitepoint.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/1545369870ux-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.
![Designing Form Layout: Color](https://uploads.sitepoint.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/1509075909kelli-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](https://uploads.sitepoint.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/1509075803d-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](https://uploads.sitepoint.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/1509075679tamarcus-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](https://uploads.sitepoint.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/1509075557clay-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.
![UX: What Can We Prototype? What Can’t We Prototype?](https://uploads.sitepoint.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/1509075116ant-rozetsky-140870.jpg)
In this article, we'll look at some of the uses for prototypes -- and also some of the things that you shouldn't use prototypes for.
![3 Overlooked Tweaks to Optimize Website Usability](https://uploads.sitepoint.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/1505669286what-do-i-choose-too-many-options.png)
Boachie Pius talks about analysis paralysis and three of the most overlooked website usability optimizations, and shows us how to fix them.
![Introducing Microsoft’s Fluent Design System](https://uploads.sitepoint.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/1505245234Fluent_Design.jpg)
Giannis introduces us to Microsoft's new design language — Fluent Design System — and explains how to implement its design concepts into Windows UWP apps.
![Putting the “App” in Progressive Web Apps](https://uploads.sitepoint.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/1504617498Putting_the__app__in_progressive_web_apps.png)
Nicole Saidy offers an overview of Progressive Web Apps (PWAs), what they are, which problems they solve, and what makes them apps or app-like.
![UX Lessons from Amazon: 4 Hacks Guaranteed to Boost Conversions](https://uploads.sitepoint.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/150410498502-ca6Tt00.jpg)
John Stevens talks about how Amazon is breaking records when it comes to conversions, and what you can do about your own UX to mirror their success.
![Bridging the Gap Between UX and Copywriting](https://uploads.sitepoint.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/1499532486dashes-1496765482090.jpg)
Daniel Schwarz discusses UX writing, why it's important for designers to be excellent writers, and how punctuation can make copy look and sound appealing.
![The UX of the Zombie Scroller (and How to Cure It)](https://uploads.sitepoint.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/1497602476Artboard-1@2x-80-1.jpg)
Have you ever been scrolling when you realized you didn't read anything in the past 10 seconds? That's 'Zombie Scrolling'! Petras can save you.
![4 Examples of Invisible UI to Boost UX Behind the Scenes](https://uploads.sitepoint.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/1496959863autosliding2.jpg)
Invisible UI is shaping the future of UX, but it might not be what you think it is. Daniel Schwarz shows us 4 examples and explains why they work so well.
![7 Proven Cognitive Biases (And How They Impact Your Design)](https://uploads.sitepoint.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/1496133388ikea-1.jpg)
Our brains are amazing instruments – but they're not perfect. Tomas shows you how to use cognitive biases to help your design, rather than undermining it.
![New Podcast: #Ep1 – Designing for Scale: Inside Atlassian’s Design Teams](https://uploads.sitepoint.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/1495607600true-north-sitepoint-500.jpg)
True North Design Podcast: Ben Newton talks to the Atlassian Design Team about how design – and the teams behind it – can successfully scale.
![How to Boost Usability with Intelligent Color Choices](https://uploads.sitepoint.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/1494288287featured.jpg)
Preston Pierce shows us how to carefully optimise contrast levels and choose colors that boost usability, accessibility and conversions.
![Killer GIFs: How Can an Animated GIF Become a Weapon?](https://uploads.sitepoint.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/149017647720151104_141937.gif)
GIFs are the jokers of the web image formats – usually funny and playful. But can they be turned into a dangerous weapon in the right situation?
![10 Web Design & UX Trends for 2017 That Can Boost Conversions](https://uploads.sitepoint.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/1487592497age.jpg)
Trends are interesting, but more important is how these 2017 web design and UX trends boost conversions.
![6 Email Hacks Guaranteed to Boost Results from Your Efforts](https://uploads.sitepoint.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/1485818786JOFx9jB.png)
According to the Direct Marketing Association, you can expect an ROI of $38 for every $1 you spend on email marketing. Small tweaks can be big money.
![The First Rule Of Good Software Design? First, Do No Harm!](https://uploads.sitepoint.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/1485352703doc2.jpg)
We design features with the idea that they are helping our users – but sometimes these same features can be damaging to users with different needs.
![Dark UX: Dirty Tricks and Tactics to Avoid in 2017](https://uploads.sitepoint.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/1483925251Girl-Darkux.png)
Often our goals and those of our user are in alignment – but not always. Sometimes you have a devil on one shoulder and an angel on the other.