UX/UI Links of March 2021
This month’s articles are a nice mix of strategic and tactical. You’re sure to find at least one key insight that you can apply to your design work, regardless of your role.
UX Shock
UX shock occurs when a user moves from one relatively good experience, to another absolutely dreadful one, with no warning or management of user expectations.
- H Locke, UX Director
Users see and evaluate our products as a part of a much larger experience. UX Shock shows how to see the forest for the trees and prevent a disjointed experience.
Top vs Side Navigation: Which One Is Better for Your Product?
Side navigation works better when your information architecture has many top-level items that cannot be logically grouped into several buckets.
- Taras Bakusevych, Principal Designer
Top vs Side Navigation: Which One Is Better for Your Product? provides handy cheat sheets to help you choose the best position for your navigation menu.
Keeping Your Design Mind New and Fresh
With all of our days blending into each other in this pandemic, we as designers have an unprecedented opportunity to really shake things up.
- Regine Gilbert, User Experience Designer
Keeping Your Design Mind New and Fresh offers great tips on embracing change to invigorate your design process.
In Praise of the Unambiguous Click Menu
Regardless of your device or input mode, a “click” is a more universal and solid interaction.
- Mark Root-Wiley, Website Designer
It took users a long time to get used to website hover menus that are now ubiquitous. In Praise of the Unambiguous Click Menu says it’s time to return to a more natural paradigm.
A Look at Design Handoffs
I believe we can make this process better through communication, annotation, and a willingness to learn.
- Kasia Bedkowski, UX and UI Designer
A Look at Design Handoffs offers concrete steps to ensure that the implementation matches the design.
Want to read our favorite links from the past? Check out the archives.
Until next month,
Leon for the Balsamiq Team
