Things I found on the web this week (11th May)

Jenny Brown
UX Qatar
Published in
2 min readMay 11, 2017
Image from 10 Great Sites for UI Design Patterns

This week: how to compete successfully on price, build your perfect colour palette, why accessible design is better for us all, free UI patterns that will help you design your app.

Here are the things I found interesting on the web this week.

Happy reading!
@jennybee

// DESIGN THINGS

Responsive scrollytelling best practices
A techy article but also a great overview of this nice UI feature that brings stories to life on screen, including examples of different ways to do it.

Designing accessible products
A comprehensive visual guide to making web technology available to a diverse world… And a nice guide with examples of how by designing a world for people with disabilities we make the world better for everybody.

10 Great Sites for UI Design Patterns
“If you are looking for a design that solves a problem that has been solved inside a different application before; then the template…is probably…out there. That’s a design pattern.” Find templates that work for your app here.

// COLOUR THINGS

The Colors Used by the Ten Most Popular Sites
Totally nerdy, totally wonderful. Here are the colours used by the ten most popular sites on the internets.

11 Tips For Building Great Color Palettes
Inspired by the lovely colours in the article above? Here’s how to build your own colour palette.

// USER RESEARCH THINGS

User Research When You Can’t Talk to Your Users
We all know that talking to people in real life is the best way to get feedback but what if you really can’t? Here are some great tips for gathering feedback in other ways. In fact, you should be doing this as well anyway!

// PRICING THINGS

To Compete Successfully On Price Requires A Strategy
“Competing on price is rarely as simple…as lowering your price below that of your closest competitor…It’s usually a more complex process that includes careful strategizing, execution, and monitoring.” Here are some tips on how to succeed.

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Jenny Brown
UX Qatar

Director of Digital Experience and Digital Transformation at Qatar Museums