6 simple steps to ensure your product idea is necessary, marketable, and primed for success

Three video conferencing tools that are objectively very similar, but that often trigger a cult-like preference. But which has a better UX?

Back in the day, centering an element was one of the trickiest things in CSS. As the language has evolved, we’ve been given lots of new tools we can use… But how do we pick the best option? When do we use Flexbox, or CSS Grid, or something else? Let's dig into it.

Answer (1 of 5): They can be for certain tasks, but in turbulence or emergency situations you need precision in action, which is difficult to do with a touchscreen - you don’t want to touch the incorrect icon and exacerbate the emergency situation or activate/deactivate a system unnecessarily. If...

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Typography is what comes between the author and the reader. This is as true on the web as it is in any other medium. If a text has anything at all significant to say, it needs a typographer’s care, which will in turn be repaid by the reader’s attention. If you design websites or use CSS then you are a typographer whether you know it or not.

Line length & line height are crucial if you want your text to look pleasant. This article shows how they are interconnected and what to focus on when setting it in web or app design.

This typographic review shows why you should not center text that spreads across multiple lines to improve readability.

Most product teams commonly adopt a feature-centric mindset, finding them convenient for brainstorming, drafting requirement documents, and integrating into backlogs and ticketing systems. In this article, Andy Budd shows how fixation with features might be holding you back and how making a few small tweaks to your process could make an entire world of difference.

The JRC supports the implementation of European sustainable product policies such as EU Ecolabel, Green Public Procurement, Eco-design of Energy...

It's time to start using this underutilized keyword, even if you're not using cascade layers yet.

Working material to the Smashing Meets Figma talk. In the talk, I cover how to connect spreadsheets and APIs with Google Sheets and the amazing Kernel plugin. Follow video at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Njf_xX0mPWs

Motion is a website that showcases the power of UI/UX animation in conveying the mood and character of a brand.

Becoming truly customer-centric is a big challenge for most organizations. It’s even harder for big companies that have to deal with existing hierarchies and rethink processes that have been used for years. UX consultant, author, and educator Jared Spool is an expert in driving this type of change for big organizations like NASA. We sat […]

As our organization’s user experience design leaders, our responsibility goes beyond the UX designers, researchers, and content professionals we work with. We’re also responsible for designs our organization’s product and service teams deliver. If we want to see those teams deliver better-designed products and services, we need them to attain the skills, knowledge, and experience […]

When a design team is small, fewer than 10 people, design quality can be successfully managed informally—reviews, crits, swivel-the-monitor discussions...

Our UX-maturity model has 6 stages that cover processes, design, research, leadership support, and longevity of UX. Use our quiz to get an idea of your organization’s UX maturity.

From design tools, to our design process, to the user behaviors that will change the way we design — a list of what to expect for User Experience (UX) Design in the next year.

No one person’s experience as a designer is the same, but the biggest cleave is whether you work in tech or not.

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Sally Carson joined Duo as its first product design leader, just as the security startup was ratcheting into hypergrowth. Carson shares her roadmap for scaling the product design function, from advocating for design in an engineering-centric org, to setting up her team for success during rapid growth.

Maturity models, often a business-school student and management consultant’s trusted ally, help us understand where we stand relative to…

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One tool to consider when making your first steps into the strange land of environment-centered design is the actant mapping canvas. The…

With an overriding focus on “user-centricity,” modern product design may have made sense in a purely commercially driven business framework, but it can have negative consequences further down the line – both for other stakeholders and for the environment.

As part of Intel’s Carbon Reduction and Green Software team, we’re interested in the environmental footprint of technology and how to…

DS Smith launches the Circular Design Metrics building on the company's commitment to put sustainability first. Together with customers we continue to develop innovative packaging solutions that ensure 100% recyclability or reuse, optimization of every fibre and alternatives to problem plastics.