The Downside of Personas in UX Design
A user persona in UX is a representation of the goals and behavior of a “hypothesized” group of users. Sounds great, but there’s a downside.
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Make Link Underlines Skip Descenders in Javascript
The goal seems simple. Browser-styled underlines look terrible. If we could just skip the descenders. Meet: SmartUnderline and UnderlineJS.
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Fear Not White Space
It’s not uncommon for clients to tell designers, “There is just too much white space.” That is unlikely. Maybe you fear white space.
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Colors Create Reactions
Colors have a very powerful and multi-level impact on us, humans and a powerful tool in Web design – if you know how to use them.
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Living Comps
Some web design agencies really love wireframes, but clients don’t really know what they’re approving. Forget wireframes. Let’s get to the good stuff.
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Lessons on UI Design from the Failures of Windows 8
You can learn about User Interface (UI) design, particularly for web applications, looking at the design failures of desktop and mobile operating systems–chiefly, the resounding failure of Windows 8.
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