August 22, 2018 — As designers, we have a real opportunity to provide valuable meaning to these assistants but we’re still trying to work out where the technology can add real benefits to the user. There are folks all over the globe who are unable to easily complete everyday tasks for themselves. Luckily, developers and designers can help by experimenting with voice technology that empowers them to complete tasks that others may take for granted. Read more…

August 21, 2018 — Onboarding is a real challenge as it can be complex, involving the user entering personal information. In this three-part series, Joe Leech outlines the three phases of the product lifecycle, the future for UX, and the skills and approach you’ll need to design modern digital products. Let’s take a closer look at how we can help users to sign up, onboard, and pay for your product. Read more…

August 20, 2018 — Do you test your forms on real users and real devices? If not, you should. Let’s take a look at some of the techniques that can help you take your forms to the next level and help users fill them in. In this first part of a series of two articles, Stéphanie Walter will sum up some essential best practices to improve your mobile forms, including scannability and readability. She will guide you through label and input placement, size and optimization. Read more…

August 17, 2018 — In Google’s never-ending journey to make the web a mobile-friendly place, we now have even greater insights into the four key reasons why consumers reach for their mobile devices. These are known as micro-moments, and this post aims to teach you how to design for micro-moments to increase website conversion rates. Read more…

August 17, 2018 — What happened in the web industry in the past four weeks? To keep you up-to-date, Anselm summarizes the latest techniques, browser updates, and hot topics in one handy reading list. Read more…

August 15, 2018 — In this article, William Lim describes the effect of scroll bouncing and how it works on different web browsers. It contains reviews of several different solutions that are suggested on the web that can be used to prevent scroll bouncing. The CSS property, overscroll-behavior, which was implemented in Chrome on December 2017 and in Firefox on March 2018, is also described here. A good understanding of this effect is very helpful for building or designing any website that has fixed elements. Read more…

August 14, 2018 — Gutenberg was introduced to the world by Matt Mullenweg at WordCamp Europe in 2017. In essence, Gutenberg is a new WordPress editor, with dozens of cutting-edge features. It simplifies website creation and editing for the average non-technical user. Today, Manish Dudharejia brings you an in-depth analysis of the new Gutenberg Editor and its impact on the WordPress web development. You’ll learn a few hands-on tricks that will prove useful especially if you are using Gutenberg for the first time. Read more…

August 13, 2018 — For the entire history of CSS Layout, being able to properly align things on both axes seemed like it might truly be the hardest problem in web design. The alignment properties that you might think of as the flexbox alignment properties are now fully defined in the Box Alignment Specification. If you have ever been confused about when to align and when to justify, this article will make things clearer! Today, Rachel Andrew will take a look at the alignment properties in Flexbox while discovering some basic rules to help remember how alignment on both the main and cross axis works. Read more…

August 8, 2018 — Today, Vitaly Friedman brings you the following pairing of talks from 2018 SmashingConfs, which will help you to assess the third party scripts you might be considering adding to a site. Taking into account business goals, user experience and performance you can make good decisions about what to include and how to do it. Read more…

August 5, 2018 — Do you know what a froto is? Do you know how you can get users to evaluate your product? Due to their technical skills, creativity and deep understanding of user needs, UXers are in a perfect position to apply marketing, SEO and growth-hacking tools and processes to their work.For focused UX efforts, it’s all about knowing user outcomes at each stage of their journey. In this first part of an upcoming series, Joe Leech will help you in understanding and mapping the problems users have and which solutions they need. Read more…