5-Card Friday
A Bi-Weekly Update from the ITS UX Team
UI & UX micro-tips
A collection of 6 amazing tips to help improve your designs instantly.
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UI & UX micro-tips
When creating efficient, and beautiful UIs for your next project sometimes it takes only the smallest adjustments to help quickly improve the designs you’re trying to create.
Just simple tweaks is sometimes all it takes to produce something that your clients, users, and yourself are truly happy with.
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Top vs Side Navigation: Which One is Better for Your Product?
Navigation tools help to break up the website into categories and groups in a logical and understandable group.
Choosing the proper navigation for your product is key to helping your users navigate your site to learn more about your product.
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Top vs Side Navigation
When choosing a navigation layout for your app usually you will need to define the position of primary, secondary, and tertiary navigation hierarchy.
A research study “A comparison of three-level menu navigation structures for web design” by Jennifer Rose Kingsburg indicated many benefits for having primary navigation on the left side. 2 studies with 16 users each measured navigation time, preference, selection errors.
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The Ultimate UX Research Cheat Sheet
How to combine UX Research and Design Thinking in a useful way.
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The Ultimate UX Research Cheat Sheet
This cheat sheet is intended to provide inspiration and guidance as to when what kind of research is appropriate.
However, it is important to understand that it is not a rigid structure. Sometimes things can shift or make more sense at a different point in time. Not all methods are always possible right away but can demand technical support (e.g. tracking, AB testing).
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Good, Better, Best: Untangling The Complex World Of Accessible Patterns
How do we know which patterns are good, better, best when it comes to accessibility? Is it better to use an established pattern/library or create new ones?
With the myriad of choices available, we can quickly become caught up in a web of confusion on this topic.
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Good, Better, Best: Untangling The Complex World Of Accessible Patterns
Overchoice has crept its way into all aspects of technology, including the patterns and libraries we use to build our digital creations — from the simple checkbox to the complex dynamic modal and everything in between.
But how do we know which pattern or library is the right one when there are so many choices? Is it better to use established patterns/libraries that users encounter every day? Or is it better to create brand new patterns for a more delightful user experience?
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Challenging assumptions and designing across cultures
Senongo Akpem is the author of Cross-cultural design, a book that shares how to design for the needs, perspectives, and expectations of multicultural audiences.
He spoke to the Shopify UX team earlier this month about the principles he shares in the book. Shopify took the time to ask a few questions about the lessons and best practices of cross-cultural design.
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What are some misconceptions that people have about cross-cultural design?
The first thing that people struggle with is why cross-cultural design is important in the first place. I think that there can be — especially in the West, but in any place — a sense of cultural superiority.
People think “The way that we do it is objectively better, so why should we then make ‘concessions’ to others?” That can be very dangerous thinking, but that’s the first hurdle that a lot of people need to jump over.
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