Get engineers involved at the beginning. Something I continue to strive to be better at is getting engineers involved earlier in the design process. At times, decisions were being made quickly and I’m sure I could’ve saved some time by vetting early designs by someone with a bit more technical knowledge to tell me if my idea is just too crazy and potentially outside the scope of the project. How we designed Foursquare Swarm 5.0
When I noticed what that voice inside my head is comprised of, I immediately realized that all three cores (experience, intuition and reference) are necessary, and as a designer I should listen to that voice. Now that I know where he’s coming from, I can truly trust him, blindly.How Do You Make Design Decisions?
And that’s the end goal for biomimetic design: making products, systems, and cities functionally indistinguishable from the natural world. Life has been around on Earth for 3.8 billion years and designers are starting to realize that represents a lot of research and development time. The people who design our world have a lot to learn from the natural world — all they have to do is take a look.Biomimicry: How Designers Are Learning from the Natural World
While cards are interactive elements that point a user to the more detailed information, a little bit of microinteraction on the card will boost the experience. You can use microinteractions when the user hovers the mouse on the card, clicks a link or a button.Best practices for designing cards
Why does one choose to use Gmail over Yahoo, Medium over Blogger — if the features are 99% the same? It’s definitely not about disrupting usability standards. It’s about that additional layer of sophistication that can only be achieved when you put enough time and brainpower into the tiniest details, the most subtle animations, the most elegant transitions – not just for the sake of creating whimsical dribbble shots.The State of UX in 2017
Don’t know how to solve a problem? Just replicate the solution from Amazon, Apple, or Facebook and apply your own style on top of it. When someone challenges you, just say “that’s how Amazon does it”. That will teach them to keep questions to themselves next time!How to pretend you’re a great designer
The world of designing moves very fast and constant changes take place here within no time, you have to know the stuff from the core. Read about new tricks and patterns. Concentrate on the design theory to create a sense in what you’re doing.How to hone your designing skills?
The main learning I discovered is that if your team can find strong design principles to agree on, it will make your team more efficient. The more values you agree on, the more efficient you’ll become and the less communication will be necessary in order to achieve your goals together.One Year Designing at WhatsApp
I personally was surprised when learned that our eyes are more sensitive to the height of an object than to its width. It explains why even in geometric fonts, letters “o” are always wider than geometric circles, and the vertical stems of letters “H” are always thicker than the horizontal ones.Optical Effects in User Interfaces (for True Nerds)
