Designing with data — and more UX links this week
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Designing with data ›
For many tech companies, design and data are intertwined. Companies work amid a constant stream of data detecting the impact of every minute change, and rely on teams of analysts, data scientists or engineers to continuously monitoring hundreds of metrics and multiple iterations.
While design instincts are still valuable, data and analytics can help you hone your product understanding and ensure your decisions satisfy stakeholders. Here’s some things to keep in mind as a UX designers working with data. By Joanna Ngai.
Cinematography in user experience design ›
How to use movie techniques for your online experiences so people can understand your message better.
The 6 types of product teams you’ll be working in ›
First thing to consider when taking on a new job is their vision — the company’s long-term mission. By Ariel Verber.
Thinking in triplicate ›
The propensity to fold all interactive digital design under the heading of UXD rests on three convenient lies. By Erika Hall.
Why bad technology dominates our lives, according to Don Norman ›
We have unwittingly accepted the paradigm that technology comes first, with people relegated to doing the actions that the machines cannot do.
From the community
Stories by Frank Van De Ven, Jonathan Kurten, Shrut Kirti, Dennis Xing, Jess Eddy, Roniece Ricardo, Vidhya Sriram, Aiswarya Kolisetty, Nikhil Yadav.
- The rise of psychological profiling: how Cambridge Analytica was right
- Constructing the mobile transit ticket
- User Research: is more the merrier?
- Cataloging the vast trove of food pics on Instagram
- The importance of Design QA in digital product design
- 10 steps for a better queer user experience
- Time to talk about Research-Ops
- Bouncing around the FIFA World Cup Fantasy app
- How to design your own resume
News & ideas
- Netflix launches a new UI for its TV experience
- Stripe is launching a book publisher focused on economic advancement
- Webmentions: what if websites could notify each other about links?
- Google, Facebook, Microsoft, Twitter partner for ambitious data project
- This designer helped Airbnb realize its product wasn’t their site or app
- This tool lets you appear online on Slack even when you’re not
- Since you’ve been asking: a website where you can unroll toilet paper
Tools & resources
- Playbook Collections: actionable ways to achieve your career goals
- Accessibility For Teams: a quick-start guide by the American government
- Accessibility at a Glance: short videos to teach you digital accessibility
- The Doodle Library: simple, reusable drawings in SVG
- ColorSpark: discover unique colors & gradients directly in Sketch
- ColorGrab: steal beautiful colors from Dribbble shots easily
- Wheel: color generator
A year ago…
What is the real role of a design portfolio website? ›
Should design portfolios be straightforward and focused on the work, or should they be a piece of art that showcases the designer’s capabilities and vision? And why are we thinking about portfolios in such a binary way?
