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What's inside: CSS target sizes, stories over stats, responsible AI UX, CSS color generator, interviewing buyers, page navigation standards, and more.
Newsletter • January 26, 2024 • 5 min read
Hey folks,
Here are the top 10 things I found worth sharing and your UX tip of the week.
UX tip of the week
Leverage experiment and analysis cards in user research testing to detect early signals of promising experiments
Pull the team together to fill out an experiment card.
Leave no assumption rock unturned with a team-based assumption mapping.
Pick the single riskiest assumption to test in research.
Focus on user desirability and usability first.
Pick target metrics that capture signals on when, how, who, and why users are impacted.
Top 10 things worth sharing this week
Explore the best of design system resources curated as a 2024 list.
Ahmad Shadeed provided an interactive guide and cheatsheet focused on enhancing the target size area with CSS(aka designing better target sizes).
“We hear statistics, but we feel stories.” Kai Wong dove into the psychology of why stories not facts are effective at allowing you to design meaningful changes. See also Kai’s free book The Resilient UX Professional and newsletter.
ICYMI: InVision announced its plan to shutdown its design collaboration services. Basecamp launched HEY calendar.
Google’s Responsible AI UX team embedded in Google Research released a guide on Responsible UX Design Processes for AI.
If you’re wrestling with designing page navigation, this deep dive on best practices is for you.
This graphic is a helpful visual in seeing a holistic view of what makes up a conversion rate.
Tailwind CSS color generator is a great new color inspiration tool focused on applying hues in digital product UI settings.
Revisit some of the most influential psychological studies on UX design. "These are not merely academic curiosities; they are the foundation upon which I’ve built my understanding of design.”
Katelyn Bourgoin shared 5 mistakes learned from interviewing 300+ buyers: asking what people want, asking about future behavior, relying too much on opinions, talking to the wrong people, and talking to people at the wrong time.
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Sincerely,
Gerren