Jan 11, 2018

What every designer can learn from Alexa Issue 50

• Case study
  Re-thinking Reading on the Web

  Lessons learned from redesigning The Atlantic

• User Research
  Net Promoter Score Considered Harmful

  And What UX Professionals can do about it

• Design Principles
  Why Design Is Bad For Designers (And How To Fix That)

  Designers are constantly required to create Ugly and poorly performing work for incompetent people

• Process, User Research
  Leading Design Research can be a Full Time Job (or not)

  The benefits of having a dedicated full-time design researcher span much further than someone to do the interviews.

• Strategy, Design Patterns
  What Jeff Crossman learned about leading a design system in 2017

  Dealing with growth, distractions, and prioritizing value

• User Research, Experiments
  How to Effectively Measure UX

  Using the Google HEART Framework

• Animation
  Stop creating unnecessary interactions

  Micro interactions should be micro, dont overdo it.

• Persuasive Design
  UX Psychology go hand in hand

  Human attention seen from a psychologists and a UX Designers point of view