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The Rise Of Intelligent Conversational UI

by Burke Holland

Conversational UI is not a new concept. Technologies such as Natural Language Processing are key to delivering great a conversational UI, and we’re finally to the point where everyone can use it, regardless of skill level.

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Finding UX Research Participants

by Victor Yocco

Finding people to participate in qualitative UX studies can be an elusive task. We tend to hear about studies and their findings, but we don’t hear how researchers recruit study participants. Let’s resolve this mystery.

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Designing For The Tactile Experience

by Lucia Kolesárová

Have you noticed the alarming lack of touch stimuli in current technologies? With the help of this article, let’s aim to consider using more touch and motor skills when designing your very next product.

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Anna Debenham, the person of the week

Person Of The Week

Awarded Young Developer of the Year by Netmag in 2013, Anna Debenham works as front-end developer at Snyk in London. She has written a book on Front-end Style Guides and co-hosted a podcast on the topic together with Brad Frost. When not developing websites, Anna is busy doing technical editing for A List Apart or researching browsers on game consoles. You can find her on Twitter as @anna_debenham.

Mark Philipps

Beautiful Docs

Documentation can make or break the success of your project. To up you in that documentation game, Mark Philipps made a list of useful, well-written, and otherwise beautiful docs. Great reference.

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eCommerce Trends For 2018

Today, eCommerce influences up to 56% of in-store purchases and represents almost 10% of US retail sales. To help companies ensure their online and in-store sales grow, Absolunet summarized ten eCommerce trends to watch this year.

Nicole Saidy

The Customizable Web Dashboard

To enable a smoother and faster workflow, Webdash helps you visualize, monitor and manage your web project using community-driven plugins. It’s the missing dashboard that bridges the gap between the developer and the terminal.

Design Systems

Is your pattern library up to date today? Alla Kholmatova has just finished a fully fledged book on Design Systems and how to get them right. With common traps, gotchas and the lessons she learned. Hardcover, eBook. Just sayin'.

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