Collection: 10 guides for designing better products
Hey everyone!
They say an evening at home is a great opportunity to summarize 10 of your most popular posts, so I gave it a try.
So here's a collection of 10 guides that were published here, at the mobile spoon, and are packed with tons of UI/UX and product tips.
Enjoy!
1. The definite guide for writing and designing text in mobile apps
This guide includes 40 rules that will help you avoid common pitfalls when working with text: layout, alignment, spacing, fonts, microscopy, UX writing, and more.
2. How to design data tables that don't suck
Every product has some data tables (in main elements or in the admin stuff) and yet, there are probably more bad examples than good ones.
To avoid the common issues - I've created this 20 rules guide for creating user-friendly data tables and grids. Most of them are pretty easy to implement.
There’s nothing special about this guide, except it’s totally superior to all existing guides out there:
3. The all-in-one guide to high-converting CTA buttons
This guide includes 30 tips for designing high-converting call-to-action buttons. It includes general guidelines, design tips, UX Writing, cognitive biases worth using, and much more.
4. Visually distorted - how to fix those weird UI hiccups
If you're sick of having those little UI hiccups in your product - this one is for you.
This guide includes 15 unusual tips - not the usual ones found in common guides out there, but the ones that will help you fix visual flaws which are often caused by optical illusions and common mistakes.
5. How to leverage friction for the success of your product
Friction is usually bad for business. Unless... it’s done intentionally...
This short guide includes 6 examples of how to use friction for the benefits of your product. It's an unusual guide with some new ideas for dealing with rare product challenges.
6. 20 Dark Patterns to avoid when designing products
The title of this guide says it all: it provides examples of 20 types of dark patterns that exist out there, but shouldn't be used by legit products.
Tons of visual examples in this guide and each one comes with a famous villain!
7. How to handle the on-screen keyboard like a pro
This one is a mobile-only guide that focuses on managing the mobile keyboard without causing usability issues. 10 basic rules that any mobile app should comply with.
8. 84 cognitive biases that will help you design better-converting products
This is one of the most popular posts of this blog. It includes a crazy list of 84 cognitive biases that can be used to design better-converting products.
9. 12 Reasons Your Presentation Sucks (and how to fix it)
The last guide for this collection deals with creating amazing presentations: tips for designing great looking slides, creating an engaging structure, using visual elements, images, layout, and much more.
10. 10 shades of MVP
(Or: how to develop a product without developing a product...)
This guide reviews 10 types of MVPs and how to use each one to validate your product idea quickly without spending months on developing the product.
That's it for this collection.
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