Beautiful UX deliverables, persuasive design, copying Snapchat, and more UX this week
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Beautifully crafted UX deliverables for your inspiration →
When people think of UX Design documentation, — wireframes, flows, personas — the first image that comes to mind is dense, long, and heavily annotated documents, full of boxes and arrows that indicate how a system is going to function and behave.
But it doesn’t have to be like that.
Here are a few examples of UX deliverables that are well polished, legible and simple to understand.
Sketching interfaces, by Airbnb →
Using AI to identify modules and components in hand sketches and generate final code in a matter of minutes. By Benjamin Wilkins.
The pitfalls of persuasive design →
The technologies we use have turned into compulsions. What can we do about it? By Maya Frai.
The endless battle, by Alan Cooper →
User-centered versus designer-centered, and how the prototyping-and-testing process can hurt the quality of your work. By Alan Cooper.
The journey from engineer to UX designer →
The journey of an engineer to becoming a UX design, and lessons learned along the way. By Florian Lissot.
Designing for large touch screens →
Designing a 22-inch touchscreen for a vending machine, and what that means for the design process. By Yubing Zhang.
What UX designers really want from user research →
Why we must go beyond the surface meaning of analytics data to understand the whys of users’ needs and behaviors.
UX, growth, and kids these days →
Why the TBH app makes me squirm but still got 5m users and was acquired by Facebook in 2 months. By Craig Phillips.
Stop designing for only 85% of users: nailing accessibility in design →
We have reached a point where users expect products to be optimized for a broad range of needs. Broader than you think.
What Facebook’s shameless copying of Snapchat means for product strategy →
How the company is prepared to do whatever it takes in order to fend off any competitors that get serious traction. By Hiten Shah.
News & Ideas
- Uber now has a credit card (and 2-stop rides)
- Amazon Key lets couriers unlock your front door to drop packages
- Airbnb is building an apartment complex, in case you haven’t heard
- Instagram launches live streaming with friends, and dramatic zooms
- Gmail is now offering add-ons to boost your productivity
- Salaries for AI talent within tech giants are slightly obscene
- This website will honestly tell you what’s wrong with you
- CNN’s ad on the post-truth era is simple and good
- Is the startup era over?
- A report on the future of design entrepreneurship
- Within: a leadership retreat for women in design
- Watch computer pros get excited about Windows 95
- The Sex Reporter: objective, well-informed conversations about sex
- The static logo is dead
- Best practices when creating skeleton screens
Tools & Resources
- InVision acquires brand.ai to offer better design system management
- Sketch has launched an online shop
- User Interviews and Lookback joined forces to enable better research
- Adobe’s Scene Stitch feature puts AI to work for you
- Flow: import Sketch designs and export dev-ready code
- Sketch Libraries: an in-depth look
- Webflow adds new interactions 2.0 to its tool
- Ocean: a decentralized data exchange protocol to unlock data for AI
- Notion: a collaborative workspace for notes, wikis, and tasks
- Freelancing people: interviews with freelancers and agencies
- Mirra: a tool to create immersive visual experiences
A year ago…
Stop the spammy notifications →
On a typical day, I get about 30 notifications on my phone. 30 times a day, my phone buzzes or beeps at me, begging for attention. It buzzes when I’m cooking breakfast. It buzzes when I’m running to a meeting. It even buzzes when I’m giving my toddler a bath… (by John Saito)
