When to Use Which UX Research Methods by NN Group

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When to Use Which User-Experience Research Methods

Modern day UX research methods answer a wide range of questions. To help you know when to use which user research method, each of 20 methods is mapped across 3 dimensions and over time within a typical product-development process.

Christian Rohrer

If cookie consent prompts were honest...

When building new experiences, if you focus solely on conversions… You can slightly lose track of what’s right or wrong.

growth.design

Using Grids in Interface Designs

Grids help designers create cohesive layouts, allowing end users to easily scan and use interfaces. A good grid adapts to various screen sizes and orientations, ensuring consistency across platforms.

Kelley Gordon

Perceived affordances and the functionality mismatch

Using one element or set of elements (usually because of their functionality) and styling them to look like something else is a common pattern. A recent conversation on Twitter about using radio buttons styled to look like buttons highlighted the essential problem with this approach.

Léonie Watson

Subcomponents

For most design systems, solving for every feature to support every case is a fool’s errand. Yet, design system practitioners cringe when a designer detaches a Figma component or developer codes a component from scratch.

Nathan Curtis

Accounts & Self-Service UX: Consider Having an “Icon-Based” Dashboard (81% Don’t)

During our large-scale testing on user account self-service UX, participants interacted with a variety of account features, including the credit card flow for editing stored credit cards, order cancellation features, and order returns.

Baymard Institute

Deconstructing E-Commerce Search UX: The 8 Most Common Search Query Types (42% of Sites Have Issues)

Indeed, 42% of all sites perform below an acceptable e-commerce search UX performance across the 8 e-commerce search query types discussed in this article. To make matters worse, 8% of sites have a downright “broken” e-commerce search UX when it comes to the performance of the 8 key query types.

Baymard Institute

Impact of File Naming Convention on delivery

Welcome back; this article is part of the series called DaS™ — Naming convention. The previous article explored the history and mental models behind sorting information in digital space. This article aims to discuss the naming convention of our files spread across drives or remote places.

Jiri Mocicka