Articles
Designing search for your product – Explaining the different stages in the Search funnel, how they work, the crucial decisions to make and how to design for it.
Three levels of pain points in customer experience – Pain points, more than random feature requests, should be a driver for design changes.
Sharing learnings about our image cropping algorithm – Fascinating article from Twitter on how gender and racial bias can be present in even fairly simple tools, with the result that not all users are treated equally.
6 ways to reduce cognitive demand when designing UX – How to reduce decision fatigue in your designs
What no-one explains about the design process – When no project is the same as another, how do we follow a consistent process?
Cool tools
Accessibility annotation kit – Figma library to help document accessibility considerations when handing over to developers. Here’s a good guide on how to use it.
mmm.page – Dead simple, fun, drag-and-drop website builder.
Generated Photos – AI-generated stock portraits. Basically This Person Does Not Exist as-a-service.
Cool stuff
Terms and Conditions Apply – A mini-game about pop ups, and the deviousness of websites and apps.
Dark Patterns Tip Line – New project from Consumer Reports to collect examples of sites that use dark patterns.
Stumbled – StumbleUpon’s spiritual successor, but better. Find an interesting site at the click of the button.