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A very big list of design, UX, tech and innovation conferences designed to get you out of the office and into some inspiration.
Rally is a personal finance app that uses Material Design components and Material Theming to create an on-brand experience with a data-driven aesthetic.
The CUA exam is designed to gauge knowledge and skills, and not to be a final exam of the CUA courses. Most questions are covered in the courses, and some questions test the ability to apply methodologies and tools to common design challenges.
A remote user testing tool (recommended by Artur Puiste from UX Estonia at Nortal YourDesignWorks)
Bret Brautigam wrote a thought provoking article on how adding a human voice to a computer could be a form of skeuomorphism. This idea made me wonder… Is any form of conversational design Skeuomorph to some extent? via Pocket
If you’ve signed in to FutureLearn recently, you’ll notice that what were your “My courses” are now “Your courses”. Our Interaction Designer Alla Kholmatova explains the thinking behind this user interface (UI) change. via Pocket
Our first piece of ongoing research into usability best practices tackles scrolling. Scrolling below the fold.
Over the last 5 years, it has been my privilege to coach and mentor UX & UI designers in over 40 countries, and at hundreds of the top brands and design consultancies through my workshops and tutorials on UI Animation. via Pocket
For the research, thinking and planning behind your next great piece of work.
Shortly after 8 a.m. local time Saturday, an employee at the Hawaii Emergency Management Agency settled in at the start of his shift. Among his duties that day was to initiate an internal test of the emergency missile warning system: essentially, to practice sending an emergency alert to the public without actually sending it to the public.
Create interactive voice prototypes for Amazon Alexa and Google Home, no coding required.
A Look Inside Your Favorite Products
Design, prototype, and gather feedback all in one place with Figma.
You know those obscure menu buttons on apps and websites that reveal even more menu options? They usually have an ellipsis “…” or an arrow ▼ icon on them and sometimes they’ll even have a More label. Or, better yet, a More with a ▼! These are called overflow menus. via Pocket
This is why software requirements should be clear and understandable. https://t.co/Nky9EVYkIw
At every position of the cursor you can picture a triangle between the current mouse position and the upper and lower right corners of the dropdown menu. If the next mouse position is within that triangle, the user is probably moving their cursor into the currently displayed submenu. Amazon uses this for a nice effect. As long as the cursor stays within that blue triangle the current submenu will stay open. It doesn’t matter if the cursor hovers over “Appstore for Android” momentarily – the user is probably heading toward “Learn more about Cloud Drive.”
This page has a quick introduction to the personas we created for this book. The full version of the personas with more details about them and their stories will be posted over the next few weeks.
Как представляли себе коммуникацию с компьютерами и нейросети авторы «Запретной планеты» и «Призрака в доспехах».
As the guy who made the original design that the majority of the Float Label craze was based on, I feel somewhat obligated to share my perspective on the matter.
Microsoft inclusive design: three degrees of disabilities