Jan 4, 2018

The Psychology of Shapes The Vicious Circle of Mediocre Work Issue 49

• Persuasive Design
  How to Grow Your Startup with Viral Loops

  What, exactly, is a viral loop and why should you care about following this strategy?

• Experiments
  Designs Fully-Baked Deliverables and Half-Baked Artifacts

  Prototypes are both great artifacts and great deliverables, depending on how you choose to use them.

• User Research, Process
  User Story Map: the first UX map in a products life

  User Story Maps will help a product to succeed, by increasing their understanding of the system. Not just whats inside it, but what will happen to the world as a result.

• Process
  The Vicious Circle of Mediocre Work

  And how to break out of it

• User Research
  How to get started with started with accessibility user testing

  A step-by-step guide that'll help you and your team get going with accessibility usertesting

• Design Patterns
  5 Navigation patterns

  Beyond just menus

• Design Patterns
  Designing for Blockchain

  What will the much-hyped technology mean for developers, creatives, and UX designers?

• Design Patterns, Case study
  Designing Tables for Reusability

  A case study for establishing a design pattern internally at your company

• Persuasive Design
  Memory Recognition and Recall in User Interfaces

  What are recognition and recall and why is recognition better than recall?

• Persuasive Design
  Psychology of Shapes

  Knock design into shape to build more effective interfaces

• Strategy
  Content Strategy a crucial part of User Experience

  When it comes to crafting good user experiences, the job doesnt end at beautifying UI content plays a significant role as well.