User Experience
Conformity Bias: How Marketers use Social Trends to their Advantage
We change our behavior according to what is socially accepted at the moment. Here, we will go into detail how marketers use conformity bias.
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User Experience
Framing Effect: Influencing Decision Making in Product Design & Marketing
In this article, we are going to look at one of the cognitive biases: framing and how we can frame content to influence decision making.
Design Fundamentals
Gestalt Principle: Figure-ground Relationship (Differentiating Elements by Perception of Subject & Background)
Figure-ground is how we separate a subject from its background. What it is, ambiguous examples like Rubin's vase, and how designers use it in logos and UI.
User Experience
Chunking Psychology: Breaking Down Information to make Clearer Content
Chunking breaks information into memorable groups. Where the idea comes from, why 7 plus or minus 2 is misread, and how to chunk content in interfaces.
Design Fundamentals
Gestalt Principle: Proximity (Associating relatedness through placement)
The law of proximity: things placed close together are read as a group. Proximity vs similarity, and how spacing alone can organise a layout. Examples included.
Design Fundamentals
Legibility vs Readability: What distinguishes them?
Legibility is whether you can recognise letters. Readability is whether you want to keep reading. What each means, what affects it, and how to improve both.
User Experience
Uncanny Valley: Why we feel uncomfortable with realistic human-like artificial forms?
Why do realistic robots, mannequins and CG characters feel unsettling? An introduction to the uncanny valley, Mori's graph and what it means for design.
Design Fundamentals
Gestalt Principle: Common Fate (Using Coordinated Motion in Design to Associate Relations)
The law of common fate says elements moving together are perceived as a group. What it is and how motion, animation and interaction design put it to work.
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Design Fundamentals
Alignment Principle in Design: Importance & Examples [Infographics]
Alignment is the simplest principle of good layout. The types of alignment, why edge alignment beats centering, real interface examples and a free PDF.
User Experience
Affordance in Interaction Design: Examples and UX Implementation
Affordance means an object's physical properties suggest how it is used. What it is, why it makes products efficient, and how to apply it in UI design.
User Experience
Design for Accessibility: Meaningful Additions to make Products Accessible
Accessible design lets anyone use a product fully. Learn the four traits (perceivable, operable, simple, forgiving) with examples from Fortnite and Xbox.
User Experience
Satisficing in UX: Prioritizing Satisfactory Solution over an Optimal Solution
Satisficing is a decision-making behavior where users settle for a satisfactory solution instead of a better solution which would require more effort.