Usability

I know what it's like: You know you should be doing more user testing, but there's so much to catch up on. Vinay has a shortcut for you.

In 2015 it's no longer enough for interface elements to instantly switch between two static states. Petras has 7 tips for making your interactions sing!

Fonts have been a convenient place to store our vector icons – but is it the *right* place? Massimo asks if it's time to move to SVG.

We can track clicks and cursors but that doesn't tell us the whole story of what our users are actually interested in. Charles walks us through eyetracking.

Conventional wisdom says that the frustration of masked passwords is worth it to keep us safe from hoods and hustlers. But does it actually help?

Today Laura Elizabeth delivers a 'typographic tour du force' that will lift you from middling to master in 12 minutes. Read and see.

Powerpoint and Keynote are powerful, but also a deadend for your data. Chris shows-off the growing power and flexibility of open source presentation tools.

Forms are often the make-or-break point for conversions on our web applications. Kerry pulls together a checklist of good UX design for passwords & forms.

Cognitive dissonance is that feeling you get when a picture frame is 3 degrees off square. Learn to use it without getting used by it.

Designing for mobile is as much about meeting user expectation as it is about screen sizes. Joyce looks at the most common Android design anti-patterns.

Gamification can be a great way to engage a user base. But sometimes it can accidently work against you – as LEGO found out.

We all know the value of hard science in testing, but sometimes we overlook our hard-won intuition. Anton Ruin shows you how to best the best of both.

The prototyping tool market continues to heat up and Atomic is the latest to vying for the crown. Daniel Schwarz takes you along for the ride.

A banana can tell us when it's no longer good to eat without needing text or even and LED. Can we use this idea in our UI design?

What if you could make a working prototype just by sketching your app and then photographing it with your phone? Appseed does just that.

Cate Lawrence applies her personal experience of using a language learning application and looks at 6 tips for developers wishing to create their own.

Page weights have been spiralling out of control in recent years. Ada looks at 5 online image compression tools that might help get your pages in shape.