Communication Tips For UX Designers

Communication is 🗝️

Edition 042 of Design Insight

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• 3 Articles

• 2 Tools/Resources

• 1 Design Tip

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📃 3 Articles

📃 5 Tips To Help You Receive Feedback

The article in 3 ideas:

1. You don’t have to apply every piece of feedback you receive. You chose what you implement based on who the person is giving you feedback and how much of an impact it has on you (SIFT).

2. Ask for time to process the feedback before you give a definitive answer. You’re allowed time to process and make an informed decision.

3. Observe, probe, express how you feel, and decide on the next steps so you can be sure you have taken everything on board and are implementing the right feedback while disregarding the less important stuff.

📃 Building products

The article in 3 ideas:

1. Embracing constraints is essential to creativity.

2. Your goal as a designer is to understand and alleviate pain points in a user’s journey.

3. Prioritization of these pain points is important and takes time to learn how to do it effectively.

📃 Communication tips for UX designers

The article in 3 ideas:

1. Share your work as you progress with your team. This will foster a sense of collaboration and will create buy-in.

2. Ask questions and be sure to listen. Ask WHY at least 3 times to get to the root of a point. Asking questions and listening to answers is a great way to build empathy.

3. To design something you must know: who the users are, what they want, and why they want it. If you can’t answer these questions you need to go back to the drawing board to find them out before you start designing.

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🔨 2 Tools/Resources

🔨 Resource - Freebie Supply

• Free, high-quality design resources for Photoshop, Sketch, Illustrator, Adobe XD and Figma.

🔨 Tool - Pika

• A free tool to generate social media-ready graphics from screenshots.

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🎨 1 Design Tip

🎨 How to make an interface feel friendlier

Brian Lovin @brian_lovin

Making an interface feel "friendlier" — Increase text size Increase corner radius Soften drop shadows Add more color Micro animations on interactions What else?

February 23rd 2022

60 Retweets1,186 Likes

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In case you missed it, here are last week's most popular links:

1. Cool Backgrounds

2. Turn on CSS outlines if you’re struggling with layout

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Michelle