UX lessons I wish I had learned earlier

There is no single design process or way to "do design".

Edition 044 of Design Insight

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📃 3 Articles

Leveraging Mental Models in UX Design

The article in 3 ideas:

1. Users will always approach new apps based on what they've used before. It's important to design with this in mind.

2. A designer bubble happens when you design something that makes sense to other designers but confuses the average user.

3. Usability testing etc. helps designers to understand the mental models of users.

Link To Article: Leveraging Mental Models in UX Design

The Technium: Triumph of the Default

The article in 3 ideas:

1. “Default” is a technical concept first used in computer science in the 1960s to indicate a preset standard.

2. A smart default makes the choice easier for users but also allows them to change it if they want to.

3. Designers can harness the power of defaults to shape the culture of a system's use.

Link To Article: The Technium: Triumph of the Default

UX lessons I wish I had learned earlier

The article in 3 ideas:

1. There is no single design process or way to "do design".

2. It's the thinking that solves the problems, not the tools you use to create the mockups.

3. The most powerful tool in a designer's arsenal is the question "why?"

Link To Article: UX lessons I wish I had learned earlier

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🔨 2 Tools/Resources

Tool - Huey

• A color palette generator with WCAG contrast guidelines in mind.

• Open The Tool

Resource - Ultimate Font Pairings

• A comprehensive page of Google font pairings that can be filtered based on style and mood.

• Open The Resource

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🎨 1 Design Tip

Use icons from the same icon pack

Peter @peterondesign

UI Design Tip ✨ For consistency in your design, use icons from the same icon pack

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

1. Don't neglect the power of whitespace

2. Yodlr

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