The UI & UX tips collection — Volume two
A collection of 18 tips to help improve your designs.
When creating efficient and beautiful UIs for your next project, sometimes it takes only minor adjustments to help quickly improve the designs you’re trying to make.
Just simple tweaks are sometimes all it takes to produce something that your clients, users, and yourself are delighted with.
In this article, I’ve put together a collection of my most popular UI & UX tips from the past few months that can, with little effort, help improve both your designs and the overall user experience.
Quick Note: You can check out Volume One of the UI & UX Tips Collection here.
Let’s dive on in…
1. It’s OK to use purely decorative elements from time to time, but keep things accessible.
Yes. The majority of text content on the screen should adhere to usability best practices. No questions asked.
But. There are times when you want to add text purely for decorative purposes, and that’s all good. We don’t want all of our designs falling into the realms of bland-land.
It’s OK to pop in the odd element purely for decorative reasons as long as not having that element there at all would affect the user experience in any way.
When using decorative elements that are purely visual and not important to the user experience make sure to call on those ARIA Roles such as aria-hidden=“true” when it comes round to Development.
