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CSS for UI Designers **************************************************************Not a Medium member? Read the full article, bypassing the paywall, here: https://www.moonlearning.io/articles************************************************************** If you’ve ever wondered how websites are built, you’ve come to the right place. This guide is for total beginners, particularly UI designers wanting to understand the basics of HTML and CSS — the essential building blocks of […]
Gambling is terribly addictive. According to Liz Burton-Hughes in “Why is Gambling Addictive?”, gambling triggers the brain’s reward system — releasing dopamine (the “feel-good” hormone) when someone wins AND loses. Say you win a game; dopamine is released to leave you feeling euphoric for a period of time. Or you lose a game, dopamine is […]
Summary: When users don’t clearly understand how systems function, they develop unique (and often incorrect) theories to explain their experiences. In user research, we often hear people describe how they think technology works. Sometimes, those theories are accurate, but most often, they are not. Through the many user interviews, field studies, and user testing sessions […]
Designers have long been inspired by nature when creating color palettes, but one area that often gets overlooked is how tonal changes in nature can guide our design decisions. The smooth transitions from light to dark in natural landscapes provide excellent references for building tonal palettes that transition from tints (lighter tones) to shades (darker […]
Survival tips for Junior Designers’ job hunt The Scream by Edvard Munch Dear ***, we appreciate the time and effort you took to complete the application […] If there’s something that unites most of the people on earth, it’s probably an email that starts with these words. In my case, I’m currently in a specific moment of my […]
Accessibility is also a question of money © Markus Spiske (Unsplash) Digital accessibility is the right thing to do. It is important that at the beginning of any conversation on this topic, this is never a doubt. It is a fundamental right enshrined in essential documents that we have as a reference in the society […]
What happens when authentic design leadership means letting go in a world obsessed with control? What if less is truly more? Mahatma Gandhi, Nelson Mandela, and Jane Goodall. Images from Wikipedia ‘Leadership’ conjures images of power, control, and an imposing figure standing tall and dominating us. We’ve been taught that to lead is to be […]
How unscalable design decisions made over 200 years ago are turning subways into urban ovens. Continue reading on UX Collective » Source link
How to gain confidence to present your design ideas Kai Wong · Follow Published in UX Collective · 4 min read · 8 hours ago — 2 Share Photo by Anna Shvets: https://www.pexels.com/photo/woman-covering-her-face-3851244/ Within the first five minutes, I could tell my colleague’s user research presentation would be ineffective. It wasn’t because they hadn’t done […]
Weekly curated resources for designers — thinkers and makers. “However, when it comes to building a product, the way different roles approach decisions is shaped by their own experiences and thought processes. This is because our brains naturally rely on familiar information. When a CTO works on a product, their mental framework already includes a […]