Solid Vs. Outline Icons: Which Are Faster to Recognize?
When building a mobile app, there comes a time when you have to decide whether to use solid or outline icons. Which style is better for user experience?
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Optimal Size and Spacing for Mobile Buttons
Tap, tap, tap! Are users able to hit your mobile buttons with high touch accuracy, or are they missing their target? Before you blame the user, check the size and spacing of your buttons.
Porkbun: Get a Free .design Domain Name
Thinking of building a professional design portfolio? A .design domain name is the perfect way to build your own brand and showcase your work.
How to Optimize Dashboard Icons for a Fast Visual Search
Icons are designed to help users navigate user interfaces. Nowhere are they more prevalent than on mobile dashboards. Dashboards contain multiple icons in a compact area.
The Big Problem with Personas
Personas are a useful UX tool for summarizing research data. Designers create these character profiles to humanize their findings and insights for project stakeholders.
UX Design Career Track: Transition into a Role in 6 Months
Have you been thinking about transitioning into a UX role? Maybe you’re someone with limited experience who doesn't have a solid portfolio to show prospective employers.
How to Prevent Users from Mistapping Icons
If you’ve designed a mobile app before, you know how useful and prevalent icon buttons are. But what you don’t know is how often users mistap them when they're placed too close together.
How to Display Steppers on Mobile Forms
When your form has multiple pages, a stepper is a must. Steppers keep users informed about their progress by indicating what step they’re on and how many steps they have left.
UX Career Track: A Bootcamp to Get Your UX Career on Track
Have you thought about changing careers to becoming a UX designer? Springboard’s UX Career Track will prepare you to make that transition in 6 months—with a job guaranteed.
The Best Way to Display Text Fields
The most common interface component used to request information from users on forms is the text field. They come in various sizes, shapes, and styles.
Why You Should Use a Text Area for Address Form Fields
Have you ever filled out a form and froze on the address field? A research study found that users come to a confusing stop when they encounter the “address line 2” field.
Actionable Vs. Unactionable Feedback: Which Are You Getting?
Every designer receives feedback on their designs when working with others. But not every designer receives actionable feedback they’re confident applying to their design.
Bad Practices on Phone Number Form Fields
The phone number is one of the trickiest fields to get right. There are many phone number formats users can choose from and they’re often unsure which format is valid.
Bad Practices on Birthdate Form Fields
Asking users for their birthdate on a form is complicated. Birthdates have various formats depending on the country that consist of three separate data strings.
Stop Using Select Menus for Known User Input
Before you decide to use a select menu for a field ask yourself a question. Will users know their input without looking at the list of options?