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5 Essential UX Rules for Dialog Design

Dialogs are effective user interface element when you design and use them right. They can help your users complete reach their goals faster and easier. But dialogs can frustrate them when they’re done wrong. Knowing how to design dialogs will allow you to use them in a way that

Create Emotion With Color In UX Design

Color is more important now than it ever has been. In modern world we need to communicate without words and color is a key to that. It should be no surprise that different colors evoke different emotions. To get you started, we’ve compiled a quick reference guide that covers

The Most Creative Mobile Navigation Patterns

Designers know that design is more than good looks. Design also covers how users engage with a product, whether it’s a website or app. It’s like a conversation. Navigation is a conversation. Because it doesn’t matter how good your website is if users can’t find their

The Hamburger Icon. To Kill or Not to Kill?

The hamburger icon — three little bars used to indicate a link to a menu. It is easily scaleable and it fits cleanly into a pixel grid. But when the hamburger icon is used in web design it indicates a significant problem. When and why is it used? There are new

Microcopy: Tiny Words With A Huge UX Impact

When we think about designing a great user experience, it’s easy to get caught up with all the things. The fonts, the colors, the flows, the content. Everything. But there’s another component to UX that can instantly delight your users that you might be overlooking. I’m talking

Golden Rules of User Interface Design

10 Usability Heuristics for User Interface Design Based upon Ben Shneiderman’s “Designing the User Interface” and Jakob Nielsen’s “Ten Usability Heuristics”, 10 general principles for interaction design. They are called “heuristics” because they are broad rules of thumb and not specific usability guidelines. 1. Strive for consistency Users