Things I found on the web this week (1st December)
This week: Learnings from Uber on how to redesign your app; online courses for entrepreneurs from a brilliant new startup; practical guidelines for usability testing; 10 great lessons from an entrepreneur.
Here are the things I found interesting on the web this week.
Happy reading!
// DESIGN THINGS
Mobile Design Best Practices
Some brilliant tips on how to make your mobile apps beautifully simple to use.
The Dangers of Delightful Design
It’s important to think about making your app desirable to your users but if you’re not careful, ‘delightful details’ can hurt the usability of your product.
Designing the new Uber App
Amazing insight from Uber on how they turned their design approach on its head to make key improvements to the app.
// PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT THINGS
How We Structure Our Work and Teams at Basecamp
An inside look at the specifics of how Basecamp decide what to do and then decide how to do it.
// ENTREPRENEURSHIP THINGS
10 of the Greatest Lessons I’ve Learned as an Entrepreneur
Great advice from a serial entrepreneur. Read this if you need a bit of a boost!
// LEARNING THINGS
Makelight
This is a UK startup I discovered recently. They offer online courses to help ‘creative people and entrepreneurs to make a success of what they love to do’.
A DIY Design Education
Lots of ideas and resources so you can get design skills without going to design school.
// USER TESTING THINGS
Turn User Goals into Task Scenarios for Usability Testing
(Spoiler alert!) Practical guidelines for usability test tasks: engage participants by writing task scenarios that are realistic, encourage an action, and don’t give away how the interface should be used.
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Originally published at tinyletter.com.
