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101 UX Principles – 2nd edition - Second Edition

By : Will Grant
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Book Image

101 UX Principles – 2nd edition - Second Edition

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By: Will Grant

Overview of this book

“This updated version of 101 UX Principles is a delight. It's an educational and fun provocation to look at the world of UX differently – solidly from the user's point of view." -Elizabeth Churchill, Director of User Experience, Google “A phenomenal reference guide. Complete with case studies, a record of personal experience, and visual examples, Grant makes it clear why these techniques have found their way into the canon of UX best practices.” -Jeff Gothelf, Author of Lean UX “..I recommend it to anyone looking to learn the basics and also for more experienced designers - the author’s candid opinions will force you to revisit some of your established assumptions!" -Anne Marie-Leger, Staff Product Designer, Shopify “An absolute must-read, not only for UX designers, but this book is also super relevant for product managers trying to get better at product usability. Two enthusiastic thumbs up!" -Trent Blakely, Sr. Product Manager, Equinix This book is a manifesto of UX/UI design best practices to help you put the focus back on what really matters: the user. From UX laws to practical UI, color, typography, and accessibility advice, it’s all packed into this easy-to-consult and fun read: Essential UX laws Handy best practices Snippets of technical knowledge for anyone who wants to work in the digital space 101 UX Principles demonstrates the success from best-in-class products and leads the way to delight your users. Keep it on your desk for quick reference, send as a gift to colleagues to build allies, or brandish it as your weapon of choice during meetings to fight for your users’ right to a better digital experience. Sneak a peek at some of the new and updated principles in this UX design book: Work with user expectations, not against them Make interactive elements obvious and discoverable Optimize your interface for mobile Streamline creating and entering passwords Respect users' time and effort in your forms Use animation with care in user interfaces How to handle destructive user actions Chatbots are usually a bad idea – and how to make them better Use A/B testing to test your ideas Let users give feedback, but don't hassle them Make it clear to users if they're joining or signing-in Only use modal views for blocking actions How complexity can be good for some users
Table of Contents (18 chapters)
Preface
16
Other Books You May Enjoy
17
Index

Make Your Input Systems Case-Insensitive

Lots of systems are case-insensitive by default—that is, they don’t care if characters are UPPERCASE or lowercase—but you don’t notice, because that’s how it should be, and it works well.

For example, emailing [email protected] goes to the same place as [email protected]. Visiting www.WikiPedia.ORG takes you to the same site as www.wikipedia.org.

The email system and domain name system are both case-insensitive, which was a good call back in the 1970s. Thousands of years of combined technical support time have been avoided by this decision.

Despite this, you can still find apps and websites where you have to sign in with a case-sensitive username or email address. Not only does this lead to errors—a user who cannot sign in because their username had a capital letter they forgot about—but even if they do remember, switching between lowercase and uppercase letters on a fiddly mobile...