The Best User Experience Design Links of 2014
For 2015, check out The Best User Experience Design Links of 2015
2014 was quite a year for user experience design - Google unveiled Material Design, Apple released phones with bigger screens and announced the Apple Watch, there were a ton of prototyping tools released, Sketch became a viable Photoshop replacement, and everyone had an opinion on the hamburger menu icon.
Here’s a look at the year in user experience design with the best UX links for 2014:
Articles
- A Guerilla Usability Test on Dropbox Photos
- UX Crash Course: 31 Fundamentals
- The future interface: Design to make technology human
- Design with Sketch
- How to design for thumbs in the Era of Huge Screens
- Why you should move that button 3px to the left
- Why and How to avoid Hamburger Menus
- Designing for Large Screen Smartphones
- How to do a Product Critique: Watch and Learn
- Design the Details: Empty States
- The Future of UI and the Dream of the ‘90s
- How to Tell the User’s Story
- Why I Sketch Every Day and why you should too
- The End of Design As We Know It
- Some Things Can’t Be Wireframed
- Google UX design with heart
- Why iOS notifications are ruining my marriage (and UX solutions)
- Design for Realtime
- Making Good Design Decisions
- How to get a job in UX
- The 5 Most Common Design Mistakes
- The Right Way To Ask Users For iOS Permissions
- Design is the Experience
- Junior Designers vs. Senior Designers
- Using Gestalt Principles for Natural Interactions
- Becoming a UX Unicorn in 5 Easy Steps
- Tips for Building a World Class Design Portfolio
- Behavior Design
- Understanding UX Skills
- The Three Laws Of Interaction Design
- 7 Rules for Creating Gorgeous UI
- The More You Fail, The Greater Your Success: A User-Centered Design Case Study
- The State of In-Car UX
- Rethink the airline boarding pass
- E-Commerce Usability Research
Design Breakdowns
Prototyping & Animation
- The state of Interaction Design tools
- Provide meaning with motion
- Improve the payment experience with animations
- Motion UI Design Principles
- The Art of UI Animations
- Prototyping Tools
- Creating Your First Prototype with Framer
Tools & Resources
Design Guidelines
For other year’s list, check out The Best User Experience Design Links of 2016 and The Best User Experience Design Links of 2015.
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