The year is over, and here’s what we learned
What’s hot in UX this week.
20 Things We Learned by Reading About UX This Year →
- That we were not the only ones to question the iOS10 lock screen experience.
- That designing for VR should not mean transferring 2D practices to 3D, but finding new paradigms.
- That delightful details lose their charm over time; delight has a shelf life, and even the most delightful details can start feeling stale after a while.
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9 Ways Robots Are Going To Impact Your Job →
While the World Economic Forum suggests that we may lose roughly five million jobs to robots by 2020, what does that actually mean for today’s workforce?
via Fabricio Teixeira
5 Common Mistakes Designers Make When Using Cards In Design →
Cards within design layouts have gained immense popularity over the last several years. Here are some common pitfalls to watch out for when designing with them.
via Fabricio Teixeira
Top Mobile Prototyping Tools →
There’s no shortage of new tools in the prototyping space lately. So many prototyping tools…so little time.
via Caio Braga
Conversational UI Principles →
A case study describing an entire process of designing a conversational UI for a B2B website, including tips and tricks that make this project a bit unique.
via Caio Braga
Designing Facebook’s Live 360 Videos →
Some of our most meaningful connections in life come down to a single circumstance: You had to be there.
via Caio Braga
Proto-Journey: A Lean UX Customer Journey Map →
Proto-personas give an organization a starting point from which to begin evaluating their products and to create some early design hypotheses. But what about porto-journeys?
via Fabricio Teixeira
News & Ideas
- The best and worst branding of 2016, according to Fast Company
- The MIT Media Lab has a new website
- Here’s a supercut of Westworld’s UI
- The CSS Design Awards’ best websites of the year
- These are the 25 news photos of the year, according to The Atlantic
- This artist paints colorful tiles on floors of abandoned buildings
- The Year in Memes collects the most shared memes of 2016
- Meatwreck is a studio focused on very, very strange photography
- Incredibly hypnotic animations in black and white — just for fun
Tools & Resources
- A UI kit for conversational interfaces
- Women Who Draw is a repository of talented professional illustrators
- InVision Inspect now integrates with Photoshop
- Innovate Cards is like Cards Against Humanity, but for innovators
- Someone tried to map all the technical aspects of photography
- And someone decided to demystify pixel density
- A collection of 100+ free fonts by Awwwards
- Journalist is a bot that lets you broadcast content from Telegram
- Here’s a report on the future of design in startups
