Writing of the week
This Wednesday I launched the UX Database on Product Hunt, LinkedIn and Twitter and I wanted to share the progress with you, as it has had a spectacular reception 👏
Before the release of the product database, it was just a small newsletter of about 1500 subscribers, along with a few visits to the MVP website of between 10-30 sessions per day and 20-50 pageviews, but then the analytics have gone crazy after the release 😍
I would like to comment that this data is ultra skewed by Product Hunt traffic and the post I made on LinkedIn, so until a month passes and the referred data is stabilized and indexed and positioned in google correctly, I cannot talk about real data.
So, imagine my face when I saw that about 4000 users entered the same day the page with more than 10k pageviews without having 700 subscribers to the newsletter 🤩
It has been a great launch, although now I am waiting for the real metrics once the adoption of the product is settled, in a couple of months I will do a small update, besides creating a transparency page within the web, with the aim of being as less opaque as possible with you. Thank to all of you 💜
Articles & Idea
To create a better society
Today I am on a campaign to rethink the education of designers. The great spiritual and humanistic power of design has been lost in its current emphasis upon business and industry, on the making of products and services.Don Norman
3 Steps for Getting Started with DesignOps
Treat your goal to implement DesignOps like a design problem: Collect evidence that demonstrates where the true design-team challenges lie and align DesignOps efforts accordingly.Kate Kaplan
Figma’s Auto Layout Update (Nov 2020). A Responsive Design Heaven
My main reason was that it went a bit crazy with responsive constraints which I use a lot. Now, this has changed for sure with the latest release in November 2020.Christine Vallaure
The UI & UX Tips Collection: Volume One
Creating beautiful, but also practical UIs takes time, with a lengthy amount of design revisions along the way. I know. I’ve been there before. But what I've discovered over the years is that by making just a few simple, and quick adjustments to your designs you can improve the end-result massively.Marc Andrew
The hand and the brain
Prescriptive feedback limits creative collaboration. I’ve seen it time and time again, but I’ve struggled to articulate the exact reasons and their remedies. Recently, though, I got some insight from an unusual source: a game of chess.Matthew Ström
"Yes or No?" — One Checkbox vs Two Radio Buttons
Should you use a checkbox? Or should you use two radio buttons? Which one should you use when you can use both?Sara Soueidan
Avoiding tab styles for navigation
Styling links as tabs is deceptive – when a link is clicked, the content is shown after a page refresh with the focus moving back to the top of the viewport. But tabs don’t work like this – when a tab is clicked, the content is shown instantly without a page refresh and with the focus remaining on the tab.Adam Silver
Flexibility and Efficiency of Use: The 7th Usability Heuristic Explained
Shortcuts— unseen by the novice user — speed up the interaction for the expert users such that the system can cater to both inexperienced and experienced users.Page Laubheimer
Products
Framer Desktop Prototyping
Design experiences that feel real. Framer is a free prototyping tool for designing websites, apps, and everything in between—no code needed.
Screenity
Screenity is a feature-packed screen and camera recorder for Chrome. Annotate your screen to give feedback, emphasize your clicks, edit your recording, and much more.
Flow
Take your products to the next level with elegant launch, onboarding or button animations, and that's just scratching the surfaces. There's so much that you can do with Flow, from beautiful design experiments and standalone animation pieces, to ad content and promo videos.
SystemFlow
Bridging the gap between design and development. SystemFlow is a Designer-First, utility Framework for Webflow and Figma, with 1000+ CSS classes, pre-built components, layouts and more!
Octopus Free Sitemap Generator
Generate visual sitemap from any websites using sitemap xml. We created a fast and very simple visual sitemap generator to help you visualize any website structure from a sitemap.xml file or from a URL (not for mobile version).
Otto
A Pomodoro Timer and Website blocker to keep you productive while working. Do more meaningful work by dividing your time into intervals and by taking regular breaks and block sites that keep you from being productive.
Remote Jobs
All remote jobs links have been removed, as the positions were fulfilled.
