Articles
How to develop an eye for Design
By routinely analyzing other apps, youāll develop your product thinking and get better at designing apps yourself.
Users Donāt Hate Change. They Hate Our Design Choices.
Principles of embraceable change can help eliminate the friction when changing our designs.
Scrolling interactions and techniques
Some doās and donātās, pros and cons, and a few rules about how to incorporate scrolling
What I have learned at Google as a designer
A running list of learnings & insights from a designer’s ongoing journey as aĀ Googler.
What are Tooltips and Why Should You Use Them
Tooltips can help explain the core product features but don’t abuse them.
How to look at evidence and not translate it into your own agenda
True empathy is hearing and understanding in order to implement solutions to meet the actual user needs, not just our interpretation of thoseĀ needs.
Most Design Feedback Should Be Ignored
Designers often receive subjective feedback because design is perceived to be a subjective subject.
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Tools and Resources
Instabug
Collect and understand user feedback with in-app surveys and feature requests.
Figma to React
A tool to convert Figma designs to React code.
The Complete Guide to Wireframing
Why you should wireframe, when to do it and a step-by-step tutorial on how to do it.
Cards and Composability in Design Systems
Structure, content, style & behavior of composed components.
Media
The She Word: Catherine Courage, on designing her career
An interview with Google’s VP of User Experience on how she āputs herself in other peopleās shoesā to design the best possible products for them.
UX Portfolio
Joren Devocht
Joren is a freelance designer in Belgium.
Last But Not Least
7 inexcusable yet common UX gaffes that make you look like a total amateur.
Common design patterns that aren’t that great.
“Design isnāt crafting a beautiful textured button with breathtaking animation. Itās figuring out if thereās a way to get rid of the button altogether.”
— Edward Tufte
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