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  • Validate Your Visual Design: 6 Methods

    Test your site’s visual design using these 6 methods: 5-second test, first-click test, preference testing, visual design questions after usability testing, eyetracking, and A/B testing.

  • Visual Design Principles in Action

    Use the 5 key visual design principles—scale, hierarchy, balance, contrast, and Gestalt principles—to objectively critique and improve designs.

  • Card View vs. List View

    List view allows for easy sorting and is space efficient, while card view is visually engaging and creates effective groupings.

  • Pencils vs. Pixels for UI Prototyping and Sketching

    UX designers answer the question of when they prefer to use hand-drawn sketches of a user interface design vs. pixel-perfect designs generated on a computer.

  • Why You Should Use a Grid for Designing Layouts

    Grids are a great framework to help designers quickly put together a clean, well-aligned interface, and help users to easily scan, read, and use those interfaces.

  • Why Chunking Content is Important

    Chunking makes content easier to comprehend and remember. Chunking text help users understand the relationship between content elements and information hierarchy.

  • Attention Leans Left on Websites

    Eyetracking research shows people spend disproportionately more viewing time on the left half of the page versus on the right half.

  • The Fold Manifesto: How to Encourage Scrolling

    The page fold still matters and still applies. Even though the exact location of the fold differs between devices, it exists for every single user on every single screen.