Happy Holidays! Here are our best posts from 2017 The Be Good To Your Users blog is signing off now till January, mainly because we haven't done any shopping yet
It’s time for the Be Good To Your Users blog to set its out of office reply to, ‘can’t respond, too upset that nobody bought me a BB-8 pyjamas like I asked for’ and say a huge thank you for all your support in 2017.
All of us here at WhatUsersDo would like to say a huge thank you to all our readers, contributors, commenters, guest writers and experts who made this the best ever year for WhatUsersDo and this humble UX blog.
The blog is signing off now until January. As for the WhatUsersDo platform, we’ll be closed from 25th December – 1st January.
In the meantime, I’d just like to highlight some of my very favourite articles from the year.
Beginner’s guides
- The UX reading list – the books, articles, podcasts and other online resources should you read in order to develop and hone your UX knowledge? Here are the experts with their favourites.
- A user friendly dictionary of UX terms, phrases and abbreviations – it’s funnier than it sounds, in spite of all the fusty old lexicographers in stupid wigs.
- Elizabeth Chesters’ How to build a UX portfolio to help you get a foot in the door.
- What is card sorting and why is it important to your site’s UX?
Expert opinions
- How to design websites for blind and partially sighted people – A comprehensive guide to improving accessibility for people with visual impairments.
- 25 expert opinions on how to communicate the value of UX to stakeholders.
- 25 expert opinions on the importance of UX in marketing – If you build it, will they come? And if they come, will they be able to use it?
- UX and SEO: two disciplines (becoming more) alike in user-friendliness – Does UX affect SEO? What UX signals does Google use to rank your website?
Other terribly fascinating articles
- Becca Kennedy’s mind-altering Four psychology principles every UX designer should know.
- Rebecca Sentance’s discussion on whether simplicity is the best way to ensure usability. If we strip everything down to the bare essentials, what do we lose in the process?
- 31 common UX design problems for monsters – our Halloween special. Which will become a tradition if they let me do another one next year.
- Becca Kennedy’s super insightful and beautifully nerdy user experience guide to typography.
We’ll see you in January for more insight, more expert opinions, more practical guidance, and best of all, more wacky captions on terrible stock photos.
Happy holidays 🙂
Images from Awkward Family Photos.
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