Overview: UX

Content standards in design systems support a holistically consistent user experience and efficient collaboration between writers, content, and UI designers.

A few relevant, high-quality visuals placed next to associated text can boost users’ comprehension of your content and its memorability.

Cookie permissions need to follow the law and strike the balance between respecting user privacy and being user-friendly.

Prompt engineering is the process of creating effective prompts for artificial intelligence (AI) systems. A prompt in AI is a specific instruction or input given to an AI system to elicit a desired response or output. Effective prompt engineering results in good communication between the user and the AI system, where the user guides the AI systems

AI is accelerating change. Companies are reacting by “doing AI”without prioritizing the experience of the people on the receiving end–Design is more important than ever. To respond, we must get smart, fast. This starts with understanding the emerging patterns of interaction, affordances, and heuristics in an AI world. The pages below are summaries

The dual prompting approach in AI-driven UX design distinguishes between exploratory and detail-refining phases. Alternating these prompt styles can optimize your UX strategies and harness AI's potential for innovation and precision. Use both zero-shot and few-shot prompting for greater breadth and depth in creative problem-solving.

UI components and design patterns, from dashboards and design systems to data visualization and presentation decks — all in one single post.

People often remember visuals better than words. Designers can leverage the picture-superiority effect to make their products memorable and learnable.

Scrolling, scanning, skipping: How do users consume content online? Here’s what you need to know about reading behavior and design strategies to prevent harmful scanning patterns.

Most calculator and quiz tools provide at least one or more of the following services: converting inputs, predicting the future, or providing recommendations.

Calculators and quizzes provide personalized information. Users approach these tools with an exploratory mindset and appreciate them while making decisions.

To prevent failure and make our designs more resilient, we need to explore edge cases and exceptions already during the design process. Let’s take a closer look at what to watch out for.

Undoubtedly there are major advantages of live validation in forms. Most importantly, if an input expects a particular type of content, we can flag issues immediately, so users can fix these issues rather than operating under a wrong assumption.

UX strategy is a plan of action that allows the organization to reach a higher state of user experience over a certain period of time. It lies at the intersection of product design and business strategy and serves as a guide for prioritizing and executing UX work over time.

The content - not the beautiful scroll animations - is the thing people use your product for. It is not lesser than. It is not an afterthought. It even has its own set of roles (content design, UX writing, information architecture, etc). The content is the scaffolding of the experience. When you minimize it, it is only to your own detriment.

Design System In 90 Days Canvas (FigJam template), with useful prompts to get a design system up and running — and adopted! — in 90 days, for small and large organizations that are building a design system or plan to set up one. Kindly shared by Dan Mall as a part of the Design System University. (shared by Vitaly Friedman, LinkedIn)

Effective homepages are simple and easy to access, communicate the organization’s and site’s purpose, show engaging content, and prompt users to take action.

Traditional methods for accessibility have been tried for 30 years without substantially improving computer usability for disabled users. It’s time for a change, and AI will soon come to the rescue with the ability to generate a different user interface for every user, optimized for that person’s unique needs.

To be effective, QR codes need clear, brief, contextual information and must lead the user to relevant pages. QR codes provide a seamless transition from the physical world to digital spaces or across digital channels. QR codes have a lower interaction cost than typing in a URL,

We spent over 60 hours analyzing 150+ companies to find the best user onboarding examples. From home page copy and sign-up pages to onboarding emails and product tours, you can find plenty of examples to take inspiration from.

AI can already perform many UX tasks, ranging from design and research ideation to analyzing qualitative user data at scale. It’s the perfect assistant that quickly produces the first drafts of any UX method plan or deliverable. It will do more in the future,... possibly complete UI designs. But AI will not eliminate the need to watch human users.

UX unfolds over time, with a factor of 31 billion from the shortest time period of interest (0.1 seconds for the illusion of instantaneous response time) to the longest time span we can realistically consider (a century for major social channels).

Jakob Nielsen and Rolf Molich’s Ten User Interface Guidelines. These heuristics have been reflected in many of the products designed by Apple, Google, and Adobe. This article will teach you how to follow the ten rules of thumb in your design work so you can further improve the usability, utility, and desirability of your designs.

Frameworks and principles for improving UX Research report writing. By following the frameworks and principles outlined in this article, UX researchers can improve their reports through logical structure and organization of ideas, clear and concise writing, and effective use of visuals and graphs.

How did he overcome the stranger-danger bias? Through good design.

Updated intranet guidelines feature enhanced content practices by teams, refined search design to meet elevated expectations, task-oriented navigation, and standardized design elements for visual consistency.

Link collection (LinkedIn post by Vitaly Friedman): Free Storytelling Masterclass (+ PDFs) (https://lnkd.in/eiFscUtf), a comprehensive guide with 9 modules on storytelling, PDF worksheets, 1-pager sketchnotes, reading lists, free lectures, video courses, etc. Kindly shared by Jeremy Connell-Wait

In a case study of ChatGPT evaluating 12 e-commerce screenshots, most of the AI-driven redesign suggestions were inconsistent and untrustworthy. Human UX expertise must be employed to judge UX advice from AI.

Design effective error messages by ensuring they are highly visible, provide constructive communication, and respect user effort.

Good design decisions are intentional. They aren’t guesses nor a matter of personal preference. They are deliberate and measurable. Over the last few years, I’ve started using design KPIs that inform and guide design decisions. - by Vitaly Friedman