Recent Articles

10 Practices to Effectively Track and Report on UX Deliverables Using User Stories

Tracking UX deliverables with user stories ensures alignment between design and development teams. Here are 11 tips for successful implementation.
Can’t Zoom Using the Trackpad in Figma on Your Macbook ? Fix it in a Jiffy.

Get your trackpad zooming in and out again in thirty seconds.
The Difference Between Heuristic Evaluations and Expert Reviews

Heuristic evaluations and expert review have the same goal- to evaluate the usability of the product. While the goal of the two are the same, the methods are different.

Guidelines

The Cone Trees Usability Guidelines for Websites and Web Applications (118 Guidelines)

118 usability guidelines divided across 17 sections that apply to websites and web applications.
The Cone Trees Experience Design Principles

Use these principles to guide your team’s customer experience and user experience design approach so your services delivered across touchpoints come together as a seamless, consistent experience for your customers.

Recent UX Glossary Additions

Content Audit

A content audit is a qualitative evaluation of content against a set of defined criteria that measures content against business and user goals.
Cognitive Walkthrough

The cognitive walkthrough is a usability inspection method that focuses on evaluating a design for ease of learning, particularly by exploration.
Ontology

An ontology is an explicit specification of a conceptualization. The term is borrowed from philosophy, where an ontology is a systematic account of existence.

Downloads

The Usability Testing Process (Diagram)- Downloaded Over 6200 Times

Here’s a simple way to understand the important steps of the usability testing process in form of a printable poster. User-contributed translations for the article and diagram available in Russian and Chinese.
Touch Screen Hand Gestures Stencils for Axure

Axure stencils to add to the variety of touch screen hand gesture stencils available at Kicker Studio.
Download Axure ‘Clear Input Field Value on Focus’ Prototype/ Widget Library

Also available on the official Axure website, you can download my Axure widgets (clear text on text field focus, and text area focus) for the input prompt design pattern in Axure widget library and project file formats.

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