User Experience

Notes

• Like how Stripe does the hamburger menu on mobile.

• Underappreciated competitive advantage: letting people do x without creating an account.

• Love how both Apple & Linear present features in neat boxes on a grid.

Links

• Ask HN: What's the best book on modern UI/UX? (2018)

• UX: Checkout redesign (2019)

• Where to put buttons on forms (2019)

• User Onboarding

• Annoying Technology

• Cleaning up form UI

• Principles of User Interface Design

• Spatial Software (2020)

• The Decline of Usability (Lobsters) (HN)

• Hamburger Menus and Hidden Navigation Hurt UX Metrics (2016) (Tweet)

• Learn UX Writing - Curated list of best resources for learning the principles of writing great copy for product interfaces.

• Cognitive Biases & Principles That Affect Your UX (2020) (HN)

• Stop setting the language of your website based on my location (2020) (Lobsters) (HN)

• Dark Patterns: Past, Present, and Future: The evolution of tricky user interfaces (2020)

• UI Components & UX Patterns Examples

• Nice examples of UX improvements for website

• Design and Anatomy of a Push Notification 2020

• Waveguide - Customer Experience Examples and UX Design Examples.

• Menus, Metaphors and Materials: Milestones of User Interface Design (2020)

• Writing UX copy for buttons and links (2020)

• Laws of UX - Help anyone understand web design principles for the sites we use everyday. (HN) (Reddit)

• The UX of LEGO Interface Panels (2020)

• How to conduct UX user interviews (2020)

• UX design: Tools, methods and frameworks for generalists (2020) (HN)

• Read Me: Web - To keep attention focused, readability is key. (HN)

• Why Do We Interface? - Micro-book with incomplete observations on human-computer interfaces.

• The How (and Why) of User Flows

• Learn UXD - Learn user-first design.

• Stop Asking Me to “Sign Up” (2014) (HN)

• Guide to UX Research

• Tips on using toggle switches

• Design better data tables (2017)

• Usability Testing in 4 Simplified Steps

• The UX copywriter

• UXArchive - Library of mobile user flows.

• Linear's Superb User Experience (2020)

• How we built an app update flow our users love (2020)

• How we made our SaaS homepage cookie-free (2020) (HN)

• Best UX resources for 2021

• Reducing Cognitive Overload for a Better User Experience (2016)

• Free UX crash course

• Kickass UX - Learn UX/UI design.

• User Experience Database - Biggest free curated product design resources & tools.

• Interaction Design in a Nutshell - Dense, clearly defined, and small guide to interaction design.

• List of worst UX (2020)

• UX Christmas

• Types of Dark Pattern

• Why Jira Sucks (HN)

• Grumpy Website - Blog about design fails / gripes / anitpatterns.

• Built for Mars - UX matters. On a mission to help the world build better user experiences by demystifying UX.

• Pocket UX List - Small, but formidable, list of UX-related resources for people interested in learning more about various UX concepts.

• User power, not power users: htop and its design philosophy (2020) (HN)

• Page Flows - User flow design inspiration.

• A comprehensive list of UX design methods & deliverables (2021)

• UI & UX Design Resources

• Designing with Data: Improving the User Experience with User Flows (2021)

• Losing faith in UX (2021) (HN)

• Collection of Human Interface and Software Design Guides (2020)