Apr 16, 2020

UX, dopamine, and motivation Issue 114

• Design Principles
  How to design for edge cases

  A scalable approach to designing edge case scenarios.

• Persuasive Design
  10 Essential Cognitive & Behavior Patterns for UX Design

  Having a good understanding of some basic cognitive and behavior patterns can be useful for UX design.

• Persuasive Design
  UX, dopamine, and motivation

  Without motivation, there is no action.

• Strategy, Persuasive Design
  Kind UIs: Creating interfaces that promote user wellbeing

  We currently create expectations of instant gratification, that then in turn, negatively affects users mental health.

• Color contrast checker

  Analyses and suggests colors that meet the required contrast ratio.

• User Research
  A brief guide to design feedback

  Critique vs. review – how to know the difference and when it matters

• Embracing terrible first drafts

  Designers can learn a lot from our writer friends

• Experiments, User Research
  Provoking Difficult Design Conversations

  Your design is wrong until it's not. Knowing things are wrong (at least at the beginning of the project) provides comfort. The process for getting the work right is starting out wrong.