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Death to Complexity: How we Simplified Advanced Search

A bit about the design process that went into reimagining Spokeo’s Advanced Search tools. This was a weeks-long collaboration between the design and front-end teams, with support from backend for some specific API updates. Disclaimer: these features are in QA and not yet released.Discuss

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UIE Article: Preparing Organizations to Become Design-Infused

In this week’s article, I recount what is takes to become a design-infused organization. Here’s an excerpt from the article Becoming a design-infused organization is the next level of maturity. These organizations realize that everything affects the users’ experience. If the technology is chosen poorly, the user will be frustrated by poor performance or limited […]

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UIE Article: Preparing Organizations to Become Design-Infused

In this week’s article, I recount what is takes to become a design-infused organization. Here’s an excerpt from the article Becoming a design-infused organization is the next level of maturity. These organizations realize that everything affects the users’ experience. If the technology is chosen poorly, the user will be frustrated by poor performance or limited […]

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UX Haikus

April 5, 2016If you like my design, I feel good. If it works, I have succeeded.View your baby as a service, not a product. All else will follow.Fool tries to upsell before having sold at all. Both stones fall from hand.One-man bands play street corners, not concert halls. Music none want to hear.Seek neither reality from a schedule nor logic from a catTake excellent care of users, and the brand will take care of itselfSimplicity is a one-to-one match between an itch and a scratchIterate in private. Don’t learn trumpet in front of an audience.No one has more than 80% of the answer to anythingUX seesaw: The easier for ourselves, the harder for usersReleasing garbage on time and on budget: The angels do not singBEEB design: There’s a Box for Everything, Everything’s in a BoxHomeopathic home page: pound of branding, molecule of infoTake excellent care of users…read more
By John Boykin

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UX Haikus

April 5, 2016If you like my design, I feel good. If it works, I have succeeded.View your baby as a service, not a product. All else will follow.Fool tries to upsell before having sold at all. Both stones fall from hand.One-man bands play street corners, not concert halls. Music none want to hear.Seek neither reality from a schedule nor logic from a catTake excellent care of users, and the brand will take care of itselfSimplicity is a one-to-one match between an itch and a scratchIterate in private. Don’t learn trumpet in front of an audience.No one has more than 80% of the answer to anythingUX seesaw: The easier for ourselves, the harder for usersReleasing garbage on time and on budget: The angels do not singBEEB design: There’s a Box for Everything, Everything’s in a BoxHomeopathic home page: pound of branding, molecule of infoTake excellent care of users…read more
By John Boykin

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Jedi Principles of UI Animation

Why, when, and how to use animation in your UI, what UX Choreography is, and what all of this has to do with Star Wars. I used be a print designer, then web designer, then UI designer. Now I’m becoming a UX choreographer — great title to put on a resume.

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The 25-Minute Design Sprint

Envato’s Head of UX Chris Thelwell explains how to break the quality-first habit. Design and learn faster.
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