Difference between revisions of "Category:Design"

I'm a UX Designer, so these are my UX Designer tools.

(Also, there may be good things in Category: Behavior you want to read.)

User Experience Design

• Category: User Experience Design (UX) explains the definition and purpose of UX and the roles that fit into it
• Category: Design Principles explains the basic heuristics that shape design from a cognitive and gestalt point of view
• Category: Design Ethics explains how we can use the two above to not fuck up the world more than it already is and maybe even make it better
• Category: Work Ethics explains how we can be good healthy employees, managers, and independent workers
• An Interview with Andy Budd at Intercom, also known as the first place I saw the Minimum Viable Pizza.

Accessibility

• Category: Accessibility

Animation

• The ultimate guide to proper use of animation in UX by Taras Skytskyi aggregates a number of Design Principles regarding animation into one place.
• Building the Pencil Page by Jonnie Hallman explains what his thinking was and how he built Paper53's page on Pencil.

Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning

• Specification gaming examples in AI by Victoria Krakovna links to a master list of times artificial intelligence and/or machine learning went horribly wrong, generally in the field of games.

Color

See Tools and Colorblindness for more information on color.

Category:Color

Conferences

• Confs.tech is a full list of conferences in the tech industry.

Content Strategy

See Category: Writing for writing-specific tools.

Conducting a Content Audit

• Content Audit Tips by Content Insight
• Conducting a Content Inventory by Content Insight

Data Visualization

• A Quick Guide to Spotting Graphics that Lie by National Geographic
• XKCD 1138: Heatmap points out you can lie with maps too.
• Duarte's Diagrammer library contains thousands of diagrams for Powerpoint (and inspiration for everything else).
• How to Make a Dashboard That Doesn't Suck by Dylan Wilbanks explains the mindset behind most dashboards at most organizations and how you can make one that's useful.

Design Containers and Components

Navigation

• Accordions
• Buttons
• Carousels

Form fields

• Checkboxes
• Radio Buttons
• Dropdowns aka Select Menus
• Sliders

Search

• Search pages and results

Tables

• Data Tables

Design Systems

• Morningstar's design system

Examples

• 404 pages
• Design Failures

Freelancing/Consulting

• The Pause Clause by NGenWorks discusses an entry in their contracts that essentially says if the client is more than 10 days late with a deliverable, the project goes on hold until the client responds.

Gender issues in Design

• Dear Conference Organizers: You're Doing Chairs Wrong by Rose Eveleth at Motherboard discusses how not-thinking about femme-presenting speakers and conference presenters can cause major frustrations around skirts and microphones.
• The Unbearable Pinkness of Bleeding on Metafilter

Hilarious Gaffes and Humor

• Reuters & its policy of replacing the terms "queen" & "the queen" with "Queen Elizabeth." by Dan Graur on Twitter

HTML, CSS, and JavaScript

• Category: Cascading Style Sheets
• Javascript
• Progressive Enhancement

Iconography and Imagery

• Considerations when choosing icons
• SVGs

Navigation

• Great Alternatives to Hamburger Menus by UX Planet lists a number of menu alternatives for global and local navigation when you don't want your mobile experience stuffed in a hamburger menu.

Recruiting

• Job Interview Questions

Tools

• Tools
• Design Strategy
• Wordpress - Wordpress-specific tools for web work

Typography

• Category: Typography
• Links

User Behavior

• Cognitive Load
• Category: Information-seeking
• Onboarding

User Research

• Category: User Research

Visual Hierarchy

• Proper UI Hierarchy on accssible discusses how flat interfaces damage visual hierarchy and provides some example CSS for correcting them