Best of UX — October 2024
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daily.dev Changelog·2y
Comment Sorting
Users can now sort comments on post pages by either newest first or oldest first. The default sorting is oldest first, but this can be changed with a button click. The button updates dynamically to show the current sorting option, allowing users to control their interaction with conversations.
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daily.dev World·2y
Making our email notifications useful and mobile-friendly
Tomer, a Product Designer at daily.dev, shares how the team made their email notifications more useful and mobile-friendly. Recognizing that important content was often buried, they redesigned the layout to place key messages at the top, shortened subject lines, and removed unnecessary header space. These improvements apply to all email notifications, making them simpler and more readable.
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Prismic·2y
Website Hero Section Best Practices + Examples: A Complete Guide
The hero section of a website is crucial for making a strong first impression and driving conversions. It includes key elements such as a headline, subheading, call-to-action (CTA), and a hero visual. Best practices for crafting an effective hero section involve emphasizing benefits over features, limiting CTAs to a primary goal, optimizing load times, incorporating animations thoughtfully, and continuously testing and refining elements. Platforms like Prismic offer tools to easily create and optimize hero sections for better performance and conversions.
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Netguru·2y
Top 10 UI Web Design Best Practices
Effective UI design boosts user engagement, navigation, and satisfaction. Key practices include simplicity to reduce cognitive load, consistency to create familiarity, visual hierarchy to guide users, and accessibility for inclusivity. Designing for mobile responsiveness, providing instant feedback, minimizing and recovering from errors, incorporating usability testing, utilizing design systems, ensuring user control, and offering flexibility are crucial for achieving practical and user-friendly interfaces. These principles ensure a seamless and enjoyable user experience.
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Top Web Design Trends in 2024
Web design trends in 2024 focus on creating more engaging, personalized, and sustainable user experiences. Key trends include AI-driven content personalization, microinteractions, kinetic typography, 3D elements, dark mode, minimalism with depth, and sustainable web design practices. These trends aim to enhance visual appeal, usability, and accessibility, ensuring that websites stand out in a competitive digital landscape.
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asayer·2y
Leveraging CSS :invalid for Real-Time Data Validation
The :invalid pseudo-class in CSS allows real-time data validation for form fields without relying on JavaScript or server-side validation. Attributes like 'required' and 'pattern' help create rules to guide users, offering a better user experience. The pseudo-class works across popular browsers, though slight styling differences may occur. Combining :invalid with HTML5 attributes can provide useful visual feedback and error messages. For more complex validations, incorporating JavaScript may be necessary. Following best practices ensures effective and accessible error handling in forms.
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LogRocket·2y
Homepage design for ecommerce sites: Tips & best practices
The homepage design of an ecommerce site is crucial, serving as both an entry point and category page, especially for niche markets. Highlight key benefits, use hero sections wisely, and ensure quality visuals to build trust. Employ social proof and FOMO subtly to boost conversions. Always prioritize user experience (UX) and consider SEO impacts for better online performance. A/B testing is essential to tailor the homepage to your specific audience and market needs.
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High Contrast and Simple Layouts: How Neubrutalism Benefits Users with Disabilities
Neubrutalism is a web design trend focused on high contrast and simple layouts, making it easier for users with visual disabilities to access content. This design style, inspired by brutalist architecture, uses bold colors, clear typography, and minimalistic layouts to enhance readability and user navigation. Implementing these principles can broaden a site's reach, improve user experience, and ensure compliance with accessibility standards.
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Product Hunt·2y
Augment UI - Use AI to prototype frontend designs
Augment UI, a new tool for prototyping frontend designs using AI, was featured on October 11th, 2024. The tool aims to enhance design processes for developers and designers. It's categorized under Design Tools, User Experience, and Developer Tools, marking its first launch.
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UX Planet·2y
Product Design Process
The product design process can vary across organizations, but it generally involves six key stages: research, synthesis, ideation, prototyping, co-creation, and iteration planning. Research forms the foundation by gathering qualitative and quantitative data about users. Synthesis organizes this data into actionable insights. Ideation generates and refines potential solutions. Prototyping involves creating representations of these ideas for testing. Co-creation ensures user involvement in the design process. Finally, iteration planning uses feedback for continuous improvement and alignment with user needs.
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Codrops·2y
UI Interactions & Animations Roundup #47
A curated collection of standout UI interactions and animations, featuring contributions from various designers and studios. Highlights include innovative website interactions, motion design, ecommerce hero sections, investment apps, marketing agency landing pages, and unique 404 pages.
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Community Picks·2y
How to Properly Layout A Website (For Beginners)
Designing a website layout can be challenging for beginners. This guide shares basic principles and guidelines to make the process easier, emphasizing the importance of separating content into distinct rows based on different ideas and using various background styles. It explains the significance of vertical padding and starting with content before designing the layout. Practical examples are provided, including a detailed walkthrough of laying out a homepage, about page, service page, and contact page using standard content outlines from a hypothetical client.
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Infinite Scrolling vs Pagination: Making the Right Choice for React Apps
Infinite scrolling and pagination are two approaches for handling large datasets in React applications. Infinite scrolling provides a seamless browsing experience, ideal for discovery-oriented content, but may suffer from performance issues and accessibility concerns. Pagination divides content into digestible pages, offering better control and performance, suited for goal-oriented tasks. Understanding their respective pros and cons can help developers choose the appropriate method based on their project needs.
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Understanding Color for UI Design
Color is crucial in UI design as it helps create engaging designs and invoke emotions. The 60-30-10 rule is essential for maintaining balance, using primary, secondary, and accent colors in specific proportions. Understanding color properties (hues, tones, shades, tints) and different color schemes (analogous, complementary, monochromatic, etc.) is critical for designing effective palettes. Color psychology and perception also influence user experience, but should not be the sole factor in decision-making. Generating and choosing the right colors can be facilitated by online tools and generators.
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htmx·2y
> htmx ~ Why Gumroad Didn't Choose htmx
Gumroad's new project, Helper, initially considered using htmx for its lightweight front-end needs. However, the team found htmx lacking in several areas: developer experience, user experience, AI/tooling support, scalability, and community ecosystem. Despite htmx’s potential for simpler projects, they switched to React and Next.js to better handle complex interactions, state management, and real-time collaboration, enhancing their project's user experience and development efficiency.
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Cerbos·2y
How better authorization drives business value for software companies
Cerbos, an open-source authorization tool, helps engineering teams save time and reduce costs by simplifying access control. Its new offering, Cerbos Hub, has shown that fine-grained access control not only enhances security but also improves user experience and customer adoption. Client examples include Supy, a restaurant management app, and Nook, a business finance app, both of which saw significant business improvements through customizable authorization solutions.
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gitconnected·2y
From Atomic Design to Relativistic Interfaces
Relativistic UI represents the future of interface design, moving beyond static layouts to create adaptable, context-aware components. Building on the principles of Atomic Design and Mouldable UI, Relativistic Design introduces Frames of Reference, enabling components to make informed, context-sensitive decisions. This approach enhances modularity, flexibility, and maintainability, addressing real-world UI challenges with innovative concepts like principles and component gravity.
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kentcdodds/match-sorter: Simple, expected, and deterministic best-match sorting of an array in JavaScript
Match-sorter is a JavaScript library designed for simple, expected, and deterministic best-match sorting of arrays. It uses a user-friendly algorithm to rank items based on criteria such as case-sensitive equality, case-insensitive equality, starts with, word starts with, contains, acronym, and simple match. The module is installable via npm and offers customization options like nested keys, property callbacks, thresholds, and more. Ideal for enhancing user experience in filters and search inputs.
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Anthony Sistilli·2y
THIS PORTFOLIO IS INSANE - Roasting your dev sites #3
The post discusses a live stream event where the host reviews and ranks developer portfolios submitted by viewers based on hireability, aesthetics, and creativity. Highlights include recommendations for removing jargon, ensuring designs are user-friendly, and the importance of showcasing unique projects. Practical advice is given on how to improve portfolios to make them more impressive to potential employers.
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Hacker News·2y
Tog's paradox
Tog’s Paradox, also known as The Complexity Paradox, posits that efforts to simplify user tasks often lead to new, more complex tasks. This phenomenon is evident in both enterprise and consumer software, where initial efficiency gains drive demand for additional features, increasing overall complexity. It highlights the challenge of finalizing design requirements, as user needs and expectations evolve due to their interactions with the product. Successful product development must embrace flexibility and continuous iteration to accommodate these changing requirements.
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Smashing Magazine·2y
Designing For Gen Z: Expectations And UX Guidelines — Smashing Magazine
Generation Z values accessibility, inclusivity, sustainability, and authenticity in digital experiences. Contrary to common belief, they do not have short attention spans but are selective and critical of content. Designers should focus on mobile-only designs, genuine content, and support intrinsic motivation. Gen Z prefers real-world reflections and accessibility features out of the box, and they tend to rely on social circles and influencers over traditional advertising.
