Usability, Accessibility & User Experience

Usability Digest is a curated “blog” about all things that make the web a better place for everyone. Topics include usability, accessibility, user experience, general user interface design, standards and best practices.

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Challenge Yourself More Often By Creating Artwork Every Day

Whether you’re into good ol’ drawing and painting, or quick editing in Photoshop or Illustrator, one thing’s for sure: they’re all creativity’s best friends. Some draw pictures all day, while others find their inspiration in uncommon sources in order to break out of the box. Whatever it is that you decide to do, it’s good to challenge yourself more often and get out of your comfort zone. If you don’t, you may never discover something that you love doing, or perhaps even worse, never learn a whole lot about yourself.

Issue № 35

Posted July 26

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UX/UI

A Complete List Of UX Deliverables

The list below contains most common deliverables produced by UX Designers as they craft great experiences for users. For better readability, I’ve combined the deliverables according to UX activities...

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UX/UI, Usability

10 Mobile-Friendly Web Design Features All Designers Should Know

Now, more than ever, users engage with brands and websites through mobile devices. Gone are the days when you only needed to focus on creating a visually appealing website for laptops or desktops. Your website needs to be responsive, and it is not just about the switch from desktop to mobile. Your site needs to shine across devices like the iPhone Plus or a Nook tablet and responsive web design (RWD), ensures it does.

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UX/UI, Usability

10 Simple Tips to Improve User Testing

Testing is a fundamental part of the UX designer’s job and a core part of the overall UX design process. It’s a great way to eliminate problems or user difficulties that were unforeseen in the design phase.

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Web Accessibility 101: Design for All People, Not Most

Web design is about accessibility. Most web designers aim to create products for the largest swath of people within their audience, casting their designs out like gaping nets to yield them the greatest influx of users.

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Writing for the Web: How To Be Well Prepared With This Great Checklist

There are lots of things to consider before you start creating your website. Here are the main elements that will help you create a useful and accessible website for you users.

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How to create a pattern library and why you should bother

Ensuring a website is consistent and easy to maintain are two of the biggest headaches faced by larger organisations. Fortunately, a pattern library can help.

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UX/UI, Usability

Four Reasons Why You Should Communicate More Visually

We have all had them in our hands. Long reports and internal documents stuffed with stock phrases, numbers, percentages, lines of reasoning and disclaimers. Documents that tempts us to only skim the executive summary because reading the whole thing will occupy us for several hours, and because we know that we will not even be able to remember half of it when we are done. We have sat at meetings, looking at presentations with text in point size 8, with text going from top left to bottom right.

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UX/UI, Usability

Dropdown alternatives for better (mobile) forms

Using dropdown menus in forms might seem a no-brainer: they don’t take much space on the UI, they automatically validate the input, all browsers and platforms support them, they’re easy and cheap to implement, and the users know them well enough.

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Designing The Perfect Date And Time Picker

What could be so difficult about designing a decent date picker? Basically, we just need an input field and an icon that represents a calendar clearly enough, and once the user clicks on that icon, we pop up a little overlay with the days lined up in rows. Right?

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The UX Design Process: A Beginner’s Guide to User Experience

User experience, or UX, is an area of tech development that focuses on the quality of interactions between customers and the products they use. In addition to technical specifications, UX professionals concern themselves with how users feel about products. Ideally, they make apps, websites and other products highly useful, easy to operate and fun to navigate.

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