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How to reduce friction with good design

Mar08
by on March 8, 2015 at 5:00 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, design, Design & Dev, friction, How-To's, ux

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Jerry Cao is a UX content strategist at UXPin — the wireframing and prototyping app. To learn how to master the art of persuasive design, check out Interaction Design Best Practices: Time & Behavior. Friction refers to anything that prevents a user from accomplishing a goal. Friction weighs down interactions, making even the most well-designed interfaces a nightmare to use. Weightless experiences are the best experiences, so your goal is to create interactions which unravel with a natural sense of order and logic. Source: Avoiding Friction Reducing friction is good hygiene for your interface. A frictionless interface leads to interactions…

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Startups: Let’s talk about depression

Mar08
by on March 8, 2015 at 2:00 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, Entrepreneur, LifeHacks

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Erik Torenberg is Product Hunt’s first hire. This article originally appeared on Medium. Anxiety. Depression. Burnout. We don’t really talk about it. Many people go through it, but most people suffer alone. We want to kickstart a conversation in tech around stress and mental health, and to create a space where it’s okay for people to feel depressed and to talk about it. These feelings aren’t just okay, they’re human. Startups can be particularly lonely because there’s a huge cognitive dissonance — everyone has to pretend they’re always killing it — to fuel the hype machine for investors, customers, and press. However, most of the…

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The 29 rules of social media – and which ones to break

Mar08
by on March 8, 2015 at 9:25 am
Posted In: Around the Web, Google, How-To's, instagram, pinterest, rules, Social Media

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This post originally appeared on the Buffer Blog. How did you end up learning the unwritten rules for social media etiquette? For me, it was a lot of watching and waiting, a bit of experimenting, and tons of trial and error. When I first started out on social media, I had just the most basic rules and intuitions. Even now, I feel like I learn a new quirk or quibble on a near-daily basis. It’s hard to know which rules exist, which ones are real, and which ones are okay to break or follow. I’d love to help shed some light…

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