How do you know if your design works? This week’s links are all about usability and testing your designs 1. When presenting your UX work in an interview, sophisticated design teams know to ask you this question: how do you know that’s the right design? They’ll be wondering if you tested your designs on actual…

You’re reading an issue of Tuesday UX Trainer, a series that teaches you something new about UX design every week. > Here are this week’s 3 UX links worth reading… 1. You’ve probably been told that applying to jobs “is a numbers game.” Meaning you got to apply a lot. But is that all there…

You’re reading the UX Career Newsletter, a weekly UX newsletter covering UX career tips, UX training, and UX jobs One of the first words I learned in UX class was affordance. It sounded fancy and made me feel 10% more hipster as a designer. To oversimplify, an affordance is a signal for something that a user can act…

You’re reading the UX Career Newsletter, a weekly UX newsletter covering UX career tips, UX training, and UX jobs Pre-PS: You can design your UX career however you want…but you still have to interview. Master the UX Interview teaches you how. Designing your UX career (link to video) Approximately 99.99*% of you on this newsletter…

You’re reading an issue of Tuesday UX Trainer, a series that teaches you something new about UX design every week. It wasn’t too long ago that inviting strangers to sleep in your living room would be considered a risky bad decision. Now we do it with our cars, cameras, and other personal property. Welcome to…

You’re reading an issue of Tuesday UX Trainer, a series that teaches you something new about UX design every week. Today’s training? Using color in design. Here are the top 3 practical resources for working with color in your designs… 1. Color In Sight (20 min documentary on color in design) “If Coca Cola changed that red, to…

You’re reading an issue of Tuesday UX Trainer, a series that teaches you something new about UX design every week. heads up designers – I’m working on a comprehensive soup-to-nuts (& cilantro) UX master course set to release in a couple months. If you’d like to be the first to get sample lessons & freebies,…

You’re reading an issue of Tuesday UX Trainer, a series that teaches you something new about UX design every week. Today’s subject line is adapted from Jason Santa Maria’s talk on typography: “Err on the side of making something too big, than making it too small.” Designers stress over a lot of details. The color.…

You’re reading the UX Career Newsletter, a weekly UX newsletter covering UX career tips, UX training, and UX jobs I wonder how many of us learn to write before we draw. Maybe 50/50? If you know anything about me by now (I know, I’m super mysterious), you know that I think writing is design. Look…

You’re reading the UX Career Newsletter, a weekly UX newsletter covering UX career tips, UX training, and UX jobs It’s a hot balmy day in Los Angeles. You’re sippin’ on an ice latte in the lull of the afternoon and want to get some good UX training in on an extended bathroom break. Here it…