Sign in Subscribe

Topic

User Experience

A collection of 37 issues

Icons as Part of an Awesome User Experience

Due to the limited screen space, we usually replace text labels with icons wherever possible. Icons take less space, they don’t have to be translated, and people are familiar with them after all, right? That’s not always true. Let’s see what does it take to make an

Responsive Design Best Practices

Responsive design is not a single technology but a set of techniques that allow web pages to serve the needs of both mobile and desktop users. The most important thing about responsive design is flexibility. Everything must be flexible: layouts, image sizes, text blocks —absolutely everything. Flexibility gives your site

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

Empty State: Mobile App “Nice-to-Have” Essential

The average app loses 77% of its daily active users within the first 3 days post-install. What’s worse: within 30 days, approximately 80% of daily active users are gone [https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/losing-80-mobile-users-normal-why-best-apps-do-better-andrew-chen] . Are these low retention rates a result of poorly made apps? Not always. Users

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

Microinteractions: The Secret of Great App Design

The best products do two things well: features and details. Features are what draw people to your product. Details are what keep them there. And details are what actually make our app stand out from our competition. Microinteractions are one of the best techniques for giving delightful feedback. All roads

How To Make Users Think Your App Loads Faster

When we are designing, we don’t have the means to simulate different loading speeds. So we don’t always design the uncomfortable moments when users must wait for content to display. But internet speeds are not always guaranteed. This is especially true when an image or music is downloading.