📚 Books to read
Content design isn’t graphic design or just copywriting under another name. The content design focuses on what content best serves the users’ needs, whether the written word, infographics, visuals, videos or charts.
Design Beyond Devices: Creating Multimodal, Cross-Device Experiences
Your customer has five senses and a small universe of devices. Why aren't you designing for all of them? Go beyond screens, keyboards, and touchscreens by letting your customer's humanity drive the experience--not a specific device or input type. Learn the techniques you'll need to build fluid, adaptive experiences for multiple inputs, multiple outputs, and multiple devices.
Designing Voice User Interfaces: Principles of Conversational Experiences
Voice user interfaces (VUIs) are becoming all the rage today. But how do you build one that people can actually converse with? Whether you’re designing a mobile app, a toy, or a device such as a home assistant, this practical book guides you through basic VUI design principles, helps you choose the right speech recognition engine, and shows you how to measure your VUI’s performance and improve upon it.
😀 Featured article of the week
What a UX Career Looks Like Today
This is a career research report from the NN group. As the user experience area has developed rapidly last 5 years, many new jobs are coming out, like UX writer, UX generalist, UX researcher. What are they doing in real life? Read this article.
Improve collaboration with clients using Prototypes
This article is from the prototyping app Marvel’s blog. Read the step-by-step details about how it improves the interaction with the users.
Usability 101: Introduction to Usability
Usability testing is a common skill for all UX designers. Why is usability so important? How to start? Read this blog to find out.
➡️ New tools to try
Macro is a Zoom client built for self-expression. You can join any Zoom meeting with Macro, even if everyone else is on Zoom. We're making meeting software a personal choice.
As the name said, no code is the new cool and trend now!
Easily keep your social media profiles engaging with the professional-looking graphics you can generate in seconds. Social media will be aligned with your brand, thanks to AI.
🌟 Events to attend
UX Design Awards Award Ceremony Sep 1 st
UX Research in Canada Sep 2nd
🌻 Portfolio of the week
Jay is a junior UX designer based in Seattle. She has worked as an intern in Uber. Her portfolio is very clearly structured and easy to navigate. She is good at the visual showcase and made her case study joyful to read!