Today's newsletter is the last UX Thursday of the year. Taking advantage of the upcoming Christmas and New Year time, we hope that, like us, you will have the opportunity to catch your breath and gain the strength you need to face new challenges. We have prepared for you some curiosities from the UX industry to read before we all go for a well-deserved rest 🙂
A Guide to Perfect Tabs
UX Planet's blog discusses way to design perfect taboos. The text is an overview of key aspects - it emphasizes the essence of readability, consistency and attractive design. It also points to the role of colors, icons and animations - everything that matters in improving the user experience. If you need to systematize knowledge or draw inspiration, e.g. in the context of a concept horizontal tabs, that is, taboos placed horizontally - we encourage you to read.
The Five Seconds Rule
We recommend commodity on the Smashing Magazine website, presenting the assumptions about project validation using the so-called “five-second testing” method. This technique allows you to quickly assess the effectiveness of a designed interface by verifying that users can identify key information within five seconds. The benefits of the results obtained are many, but it is worth bearing in mind that there are many factors that influence this method, such as the cognitive abilities of the participants or the visual complexity of the stimuli.
Icons in apps
We encourage you to review text prepared by the authors of UxPin, from which you will learn what principles and values the leading technology companies are guided by in the design of icons in their applications. It is common knowledge that effective icons should be simple and balanced between tradition and innovation, but it is also important that they take into account the principles of accessibility and also adapt to the specifics of a given platform. For more tips, we invite you to the text!
About dynamic fonts
We also recommend commodity on Kinaole's blog discussing the importance and implementation of dynamic fonts in iOS apps. In the text you will find information about what such fonts are characterized by, how they behave and when and where they can be used. The use of dynamic fonts is important for increasing accessibility and improving the user experience, but there are a few limitations that such fonts come with. More in the article!
Design Inspirations
At the very end we drop collection dozens of design systems - some you may be familiar with and collection components to be used.
See you in 2024! ✨
