How to Make Progress Bar Faster?
Reading Time – 3 min. If your progress bar takes forever, you might want to use this trick to make it 'feel fast.' Read this article for more.
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Practical UX articles on interface design, usability and research — from form validation to dark mode, each answering one question with evidence.
Which theme is better for the eyes: Dark Mode or Light Mode?
Reading Time – 2 min. While designing interfaces in light or dark mode, take into account the strain your UI puts on the user's eyes. Read more in this piece.
Sign in or log in: Which UX copy works best?
Reading Time – 3 min. If you are a designer or a developer having a debate on whether to use 'sign in/sign up' or 'login/register', read this.
Designing an Effective Dropdown Menu Affordance
Reading Time – 3 min. Dropdown menu UX best practices: why hover tunnels fail, click vs hover, close delays, menu aim, and the rules that make navigation dropdowns easy to use.
UX for Composing Boolean Logic
Reading Time – 3 min. If you are struggling with building boolean logic UX, check out these examples to get some inspiration.
9 Pros and Cons of Dark Mode
Reading Time – 2 min. Learn about the pros and cons of dark mode before making the decision to make the switch from light to dark mode.
When is a switch “on”?
Reading Time – 2 min. There are norms in different geographical locations as to which direction is a switch on. However, there's variation between countries.
How to Avoid Hermann Grid Illusion in Grids?
Reading Time – 2 min. If you are designing a UI for an image gallery with 3-4 images in a column and multiple rows, using rounded corners will cause a Hermann Grid illusion.
Enter your password. Twice.
Reading Time – 2 min. We should not ask for a password twice. Instead, we should ask for it once and make sure that the 'forgot password' system works seamlessly and flawlessly.
Should Error Messages Apologize?
Reading Time – 2 min. You "must" employ an apologetic tone in error messages: if the user makes a mistake, it is because the user does not comprehend the system's principles.