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Vitaly Friedman - UX And Product Designer’s Career Paths

As the new year begins, I often find myself in a strange place — reflecting back at the previous year or looking forward to the year ahead. And as I speak with colleagues and friends at the time, it

ux , Inspiration , Career , Design

Vitaly Friedman - How To Design For (And With) Deaf People

When we think about people who are deaf, we often assume stereotypes, such as “disabled” older adults with hearing aids. However, this perception is far from the truth and often leads to poor decisi

Accessibility , ux , Design

Vitaly Friedman - How To Measure The Impact Of Features

So we design and ship a shiny new feature. How do we know if it’s working? How do we measure and track its impact? There is no shortage in UX metrics, but what if we wanted to establish a simple, re

Tools , ux , Design

Vitaly Friedman - Designing For Stress And Emergency

No design exists in isolation. As designers, we often imagine specific situations in which people will use our product. It might be indeed quite common — but there will also be other — urgent, frust

Design Patterns , ux , Design

Vitaly Friedman - Designing Filters That Work: Best Practices and Guidelines

Filters are everywhere. While we often think of them appearing when booking flights or shopping online, filters are frequently used in pretty much every interface that features more than a handful o

Design Patterns , Best Practices , ux , Usability , Web Design

Vitaly Friedman - Usability Pitfalls of Disabled Buttons, and How To Avoid Them

Imagine a world in which every button is disabled by default. Usually it’s grey, subtle and slightly out of focus, often with poor contrast and a subdued text label that’s a bit difficult to deciphe

Design Patterns , ux , Usability , Web Design

Vitaly Friedman - Getting Your head Straight: A New CSS Performance Diagnostics Snippet

There are plenty of ways to detect performance bottlenecks and audit CSS. We can look into common performance bottlenecks and the complexity of stylesheets, the way we load assets, and the order in

performance , workflow , Tools , Css

Vitaly Friedman - Free Online Workshop: Frustrating Design Patterns And How To Fix Them

Disabled buttons. Infinite scroll. Poor inline validation. Parallax. Carousels. Modals. Mega-dropdown hover menus. There is plenty of frustration on the web. Let’s fix that. Join us for a free onlin

Tools , Career , Smashing

Vitaly Friedman - Meet Touch Design For Mobile Interfaces, A New Smashing Book By Steven Hoober

Mobile and touch are the new normal for computing, but there remain a lot of myths, rumors, errors, bias, and out-of-date information on how portable touchscreens are used. Let’s change that! In ou

mobile , Apps , Smashing Books

Vitaly Friedman - Meet “Touch Design For Mobile Interfaces”, A New Smashing Book

How do we design for touch in 2022? Mobile and touch are the new default for computing, but there are still many myths, rumors, errors and out-of-date practices on how to design for them. Let’s chan

mobile , Apps , Smashing Books

Vitaly Friedman - We All Are Ukraine 🇺🇦

This is not a regular Smashing article. But these aren’t regular times either. I was born and grew up in Minsk, Belarus. That’s where I spent nights playing Prince of Persia. That’s where I’d wait

Smashing

Vitaly Friedman - Timing is Everything: Good Design Is All About The Right Timing

Imagine a shiny newsletter pop-up. A pop-up makes its splendid appearance on an eCommerce site just as you are about to make your way to a product page. You didn’t even have a chance to explore a si

Design Patterns , UX Design , User Experience

Vitaly Friedman - Infinite Scroll UX Done Right: Guidelines and Best Practices

We’ve all been there. You might have a long-winded list of search results, products, orders or data entries. Of course, you have all kinds of filters and sorting and search already in place. However

Design Patterns , UX Design , ux

Vitaly Friedman - Designing Effective Breadcrumbs Navigation

Nobody gets particularly excited about breadcrumbs navigation. You know, those tiny little crumbles of pathways that illustrate where a user currently is in the intricate hierarchy of the website. T

Navigation , ux , Usability , Web Design

Vitaly Friedman - Usability Guidelines For Better Carousels UX

Carousels don’t have a good reputation, and rightfully so. They have plenty of accessibility issues, they often exhibit low click-through rates, can be very disruptive when auto-advancing and people

Design Patterns , Accessibility , ux , Usability

Vitaly Friedman - Say Goodbye To Frustrating Navigation, With Navigation Queries

When designing interfaces, we often focus on the usual suspects. How do we design better mega-menus and carousels? How do we support users with better breadcrumbs? How do we better display our sideb

Design Patterns , Navigation , ux

Vitaly Friedman - UX Metrics That Matter: A Guide To Design KPIs

Imagine that you’ve just received an invite to a new meeting. The description is a bit vague, but the title is sitting right there, with its heavy weight, making you a bit worried: design KPIs. Now,

workflow , ux , Design , Business

Vitaly Friedman - Designing A Perfect Language Selector UX

Imagine that you’ve just arrived in Tokyo. Full of impatience and excitement, you are just about to hit the road, yet there it comes: an urgent warning from your mobile provider, nudging you to top

Design Patterns , Accessibility , ux , Usability

Vitaly Friedman - Things I Wish I’d Known Earlier In My Career

We often focus on the latest techniques and tooling, trying to optimize our workflows and processes. However, in the end, every single person has their own goals and ambitions, and too often, our in

workflow , Productivity , Career

Vitaly Friedman - Designing Effective Pricing Plans UX

Imagine that you need to design a pricing page. The page is intended for a product that has four different pricing plans. All plans are designed for different audiences, vary in features, include so

Design Patterns , Accessibility , ux , Usability

Vitaly Friedman - Rethinking Authentication UX

Authentication is a tricky subject. There are so many terms floating around us, from 2FA to MFA to OTP — and it might be difficult to make sense of what we need and when we need it. But authenticati

Design Patterns , ux , Usability , authentication

Vitaly Friedman - Designing A Better Back Button UX

There aren’t many things in usability testing that keep showing up over and over again. One of them is the anxiety people experience when they have to go back to the previous page. Users generally d

Design Patterns , ux , Usability

Vitaly Friedman - Designing Better Error Messages UX

When we design interfaces, we rarely think about error messages first. After all, how much is there to design anyway? We highlight the error, display a message, and nudge users toward the correct in

Design Patterns , ux , Usability

Vitaly Friedman - Meet Understanding Privacy, A New Smashing Book By Heather Burns

Privacy by design is possible, but over time, it has become challenging to build and deploy sites and apps that use personal information in practical ways that are safe and ethical. In fact, many of

Privacy , Smashing Books