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Five Ways To Prevent Bad Microcopy

From Bill Beard
June 17th, 2013
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You’ve just created the best user experience ever. You had the idea. You sketched it out. You started to build it. Except you’re already in trouble, because you’ve forgotten something: the copy. Specifically, the microcopy. Microcopy is the text we don’t talk about very often. It’s the label on a form ...

What Leap Motion And Google Glass Mean For Future User Experience

From Tommy Walker
June 14th, 2013
56 Comments

Editor’s note: Please note that this article explores an entirely hypothetical scenario, and these are opinions, some of which you may not agree with. However, the opinions are based on current trends, statistics and existing technology. If you’re the kind of designer who is interested in developing the future, the ...

Beyond The Button: Embracing The Gesture-Driven Interface

From Thomas Joos
May 24th, 2013
18 Comments

As a mobile UI or UX designer, you probably remember the launch of Apple’s first iPhone as if it was yesterday. Among other things, it introduced a completely touchscreen-centered interaction to a individual’s most private and personal device. It was a game-changer. Today, kids grow up with touchscreen experiences like it’s ...

Mobile UX ResearchExploring Ten Fundamental Aspects Of M-Commerce Usability

From Christian Holst
May 21st, 2013
28 Comments

Everyone is talking about mobile. Some e-commerce websites are venturing into it. Mobile commerce (also known as “m-commerce”) has immense potential, exhibiting a 86% growth rate and hitting $25 billion in 2012 (set to reach $86 billion by 2016, according to eMarketer). It’s also a whole new platform, with new interaction ...

Effectively Planning UX Design Projects

Planning user experience (UX) projects is a balancing act of getting the right amount of user input within the constraints of your project. The trick is to work out the best use of your time. How can you get the most UX goodness for your client’s budget? This article explains ...

Improving Your Website Usability Tests

From Damian Rees
January 8th, 2013
23 Comments

In one of the first usability tests I ever did, I met a lovely old lady who could not use a mouse. She kept lifting it in the air and pointing at the screen, speaking words of encouragement to the cursor. At the end of the test I got absolutely ...

UX Design Q&AAdaptive Vs. Responsive Layouts And Optimal Form Field Labels

From Christian Holst
November 8th, 2012
35 Comments

Welcome to a new column in the UX Design section on Smashing Magazine! Each month we’ll pick a handful of popular questions asked by our readers around good practices in designing smart and usable experiences. They will be answered by Christian Holst, a regular author here on Smashing and founder ...

UX Meets SecurityBetter Password Masking For Sign-Up Forms

From Anthony T
October 26th, 2012
98 Comments

Editor’s Note: This article expresses the author’s personal opinion and covers experimental UX techniques which aren’t considered to be best practice. Masking passwords is an old practice that’s commonly implemented in sign-up and log-in forms. It’s used to prevent over-the-shoulder snoopers from catching the user’s password. While masking passwords is a ...

design patternsYou Already Know How To Use It

From Charles Hannon
September 25th, 2012
38 Comments

In the first television advertisement for the iPad, the narrator intoned, “It’s crazy powerful. It’s magical. You already know how to use it.” This was an astonishing claim. Here was a new, market-defining, revolutionary device, unlike anything we had seen before, and we already knew how to use it. And ...

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