Design is a rather broad and vague term. When someone says “I’m a designer,” it is not immediately clear what they actually do day to day. There are a number of different responsibilities encompassed ...

User interface (UI) design is a very well-known term, but information architecture (IA) is not. Yet, both are indispensable components of user experience (UX) design, and they are intertwined. This ...

Doug Wintemute is a staff writer for Forbes Advisor. After completing his master’s in English at York University, he began his writing career in the higher education space. Over the past decade, Doug ...

One of the most common misconceptions people have is that User Experience Design is all about usability. It’s easy to see why – usability means that a product is both usable and useful. When you walk ...

Creative Director of ArtVersion, a Chicago design consultancy. We craft ideal user experiences for the world’s most innovative companies. Web and app programming is never a still and static entity, ...

Editor's Note: This article has been updated on August 28, 2023 to include new data and information. In the digital age, the way a product or service feels to users can make or break its success. At ...

Update: This article was originally published on the Toptal Design Blog and includes some outdated examples (RealtimeBoard has rebranded to Miro and with a new UI, Murally now being called Mural).

User experience is the foundation of a site’s usability, and it’s an aspect of on-page SEO that many people overlook. If your site lacks the positive user experience and ease of use that end users ...

If customers find it difficult to do business with you, whether online, on their phone, in a physical store, or anywhere else, they’ll go somewhere else where there is less friction in their ...