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Adam Silver

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Designer with engineering background. I share tips to help you design products that are ridiculously simple and accessible to use.

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It’s not a hot take. Only bored designers/stakeholders like this sort of design. It is not user-centric in the slightest.

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I’ve watched 100s of usability tests. Here’s 3 ways to maximise the reliability of your findings: 1) Ask the participant about their current situation This eases the participant into the session and adds useful context to the next part... 2) Ask the participant to complete a

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“It depends” – UI/UX designers I don’t disagree that some design decisions depend on the situation. But I often here designers spewing “It depends” in reference to things where it does not in the slightest bit depend. Here’s 7 examples: 1. Never disable the submit button 2.

“It depends” – UI/UX designers

I don’t disagree that some design decisions depend on the situation.

But I often here designers spewing “It depends” in reference to things where it does not in the slightest bit depend.

Here’s 7 examples:

1. Never disable the submit button
2.
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Last week I posted this UI/UX tip: Use sentence case over title case. One of the 59 comments read: “Oh. My. God. We went round and round about this at a previous job. My coworker put together a 25+ page PDF about the pros and cons of each.” Here’s the thing: Tips like these

Last week I posted this UI/UX tip:

Use sentence case over title case.

One of the 59 comments read:

“Oh. My. God. We went round and round about this at a previous job. My coworker put together a 25+ page PDF about the pros and cons of each.”

Here’s the thing:

Tips like these
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UI/UX designers: do you think you should update the button label to ‘Please wait’ when clicked? Some thoughts: 1. Is it accessible to update a button’s label when clicked? 2. Updating the button’s label can cause a layout shift 3. If you add text outside the button, it might