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UX Magazine · UX Magazine Team · Feb 26, 2022

We stand with Ukraine. Here are ways you can help.

Ukrainian people are among the many contributing authors, volunteers, and members of our team that have enabled UX Magazine to serve the community for 17 years. We stand with our team members from Ukraine, and the people of Ukraine. If you want to help, here is a (growing) list of ways that you can help The post We st.

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Boxes and Arrows · Noreen Whysel · Feb 24, 2022

Designing Respectful Tech: What is your relationship with technology?

You’ve been there before. You thought you could trust someone with a secret. You thought it would be safe, but found out later that they blabbed to everyone. Or, maybe they didn’t share it, but the way they used it felt manipulative. You gave more than you got and it didn’t feel fair. But now that it’s out there, do y.

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Material Design · Feb 17, 2022

The Science of Color & Design

How Material used color science to make design easier and more expressive than ever before

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Intuit Design · Ted Drake · Feb 1, 2022

Let Closed Caption users know when a video has no audio

Not all videos have audio, but this isn’t obvious for people who use closed captions. These videos fall into two camps: decorative and instructive. - Decorative videos are often used in the background of pages. They are short, perhaps three seconds long, and may loop. These don’t require a caption file. - Instructive.

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GOV.UK User Research · <name>Alison Foley - User Researcher, CDDO</name> · Nov 11, 2021

Working with users and economists to evolve the Service Manual

The team behind the Service Manual used collaborative workshops for gathering user inputs and exploratory research to understand the perceived value of the Manual.

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A List Apart · by <a itemprop="url" class="author" rel="author" href="https://alistapart.com/author/sophiavoychehovski/">Sophia V. Prater</a> · Oct 21, 2021

How to Sell UX Research with Two Simple Questions

Do you find yourself designing screens with only a vague idea of how the things on the screen relate to the things elsewhere in the system? Do you leave stakeholder meetings with unclear directives that often seem to contradict previous conversations? You know a better understanding of user needs would help the team g.

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Lea Verou · Oct 15, 2021

Custom properties with defaults: 3+1 strategies

When developing customizable components, one often wants to expose various parameters of the styling as custom properties, and form a sort of CSS API . This is still underutlized, but there are libraries, e.g. Shoelace , that already list custom properties alongside other parts of each component’s API (even CSS parts.

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Boxes and Arrows · Lis Hubert · Oct 5, 2021

The Dream of a More Human Navigation Realized

Using the customer intentions method to humanize our virtual worlds In the 2010 Sci-Fi film Inception a professional thief is offered a chance at erasing his criminal history if he implants one person’s ideas into the subconscious of another person. He aims to do this by crashing the second person’s dreams. He hires a.

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A List Apart · by <a itemprop="url" class="author" rel="author" href="https://alistapart.com/author/mike-wills/">Mike Wills</a> · Sep 23, 2021

A Content Model Is Not a Design System

Do you remember when having a great website was enough? Now, people are getting answers from Siri, Google search snippets, and mobile apps, not just our websites. Forward-thinking organizations have adopted an omnichannel content strategy , whose mission is to reach audiences across multiple digital channels and platf.

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Léonie Watson · Léonie Watson · Sep 12, 2021

Notes on synthetic speech

I've been thinking about conversational interfaces and the importance of voice quality in user experience, particularly as a screen reader user who's been listening to the same synthetic voice for about 20 years.

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Slack Design · mlivingstone · Sep 7, 2021

Make things that people want (instead of what you want them to want)

There are plenty of comprehensive pieces on the practice of product design out there—our own Kyle Turman has written an excellent post on the Pillars of Digital Product Design—but there’s a crucial layer of thinking that can sometimes elude the design process itself, partially because it’s so obvious that it’s hiding.

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A List Apart · by <a itemprop="url" class="author" rel="author" href="https://alistapart.com/author/eva-penzeymoog/">Eva PenzeyMoog</a> · Aug 26, 2021

Design for Safety, An Excerpt

Antiracist economist Kim Crayton says that “intention without strategy is chaos.” We’ve discussed how our biases, assumptions, and inattention toward marginalized and vulnerable groups lead to dangerous and unethical tech—but what, specifically , do we need to do to fix it? The intention to make our tech safer is not.

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Boxes and Arrows · Ana Peralta · Aug 10, 2021

Running Design Sprint Kickoffs Remotely

As the workforce decentralizes through the increased availability of remote employment options, teams have to learn to compensate for the lack of in-person collaboration to tackle the daily work challenges. Currently, I am the Senior UX Designer for my division and am based in the United States along with our Program.

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