Human-Centered Design Through AI-Assisted Usability Testing: Reality Or Fiction?
The most reliable way to meet user needs is through extensive usability research. However, scaling can…
New Year, New Hopes, New Dreams (January 2025 Wallpapers Edition) — Smashing Magazine
Maybe 2025 has already started as you’re reading this, maybe you’re still waiting for the big…
If I Was Starting My Career Today: Thoughts After 15 Years Spent In UX Design (Part 2) — Smashing Magazine
In this two-part series, Andrii Zhdan outlines common challenges faced at the start of a design…
Humility: An Essential Value
Humility, a designer’s essential value—that has a nice ring to it. What about humility, an office…
Personalization Pyramid: A Framework for Designing with User Data
As a UX professional in today’s data-driven landscape, it’s increasingly likely that you’ve been asked to…
Mobile-First CSS: Is It Time for a Rethink?
The mobile-first design methodology is great—it focuses on what really matters to the user, it’s well-practiced,…
Designers, (Re)define Success First
About two and a half years ago, I introduced the idea of daily ethical design. It…
Breaking Out of the Box
CSS is about styling boxes. In fact, the whole web is made of boxes, from the…
How to Sell UX Research with Two Simple Questions
Do you find yourself designing screens with only a vague idea of how the things on…
A Content Model Is Not a Design System
Do you remember when having a great website was enough? Now, people are getting answers from…
Design for Safety, An Excerpt
Antiracist economist Kim Crayton says that “intention without strategy is chaos.” We’ve discussed how our biases,…
Sustainable Web Design, An Excerpt
In the 1950s, many in the elite running community had begun to believe it wasn’t possible…
Voice Content and Usability
We’ve been having conversations for thousands of years. Whether to convey information, conduct transactions, or simply…
Designing for the Unexpected
I’m not sure when I first heard this quote, but it’s something that has stayed with…
Asynchronous Design Critique: Getting Feedback
“Any comment?” is probably one of the worst ways to ask for feedback. It’s vague and…
Asynchronous Design Critique: Giving Feedback
Feedback, in whichever form it takes, and whatever it may be called, is one of the…
That’s Not My Burnout
Are you like me, reading about people fading away as they burn out, and feeling unable…
Beware the Cut ‘n’ Paste Persona
This Person Does Not Exist is a website that generates human faces with a machine learning…