Techniques

Affinity Mapping

Learn how to use Affinity Mapping, a collaborative technique for organizing large amounts of qualitative data, such as brainstorming ideas or interview observations, and finding meaningful patterns.

Card Sorting

Learn what Card Sorting is, a fundamental UX research technique for designing an intuitive Information Architecture by understanding how your users group and categorize content.

Chunking in UI Flows: Intelligent Fragmentation

Learn to apply chunking in your interfaces and user flows to break information into manageable blocks, reducing cognitive load and improving success rates.

Color Contrast Math: Readability and Ratio

Learn the mathematical rules and contrast ratios required by WCAG to ensure your interface design is legible for people with low vision and color blindness.

Competitive Analysis

Discover how to conduct a Competitive Analysis (Benchmarking) to evaluate your competitors, identify market standards, and find strategic opportunities to improve your own product.

Component API Design: Predictability and Flexibility

Learn to design robust and consistent component APIs that facilitate handoff between design and development, reducing errors and accelerating product construction.

Component Prop Organization: Structure and Hierarchy

Learn to organize and prioritize your components' properties (props) to create a more intuitive user experience for the designers and developers consuming your design system.

Constraints and Auto Layout Logic in Figma

Master advanced Constraints and Auto Layout logic in Figma to create responsive components and layouts that adapt perfectly to any screen size.

Crazy 8's

Discover Crazy 8's, a rapid ideation exercise fundamental to Design Sprints that forces you to generate 8 design ideas in 8 minutes to explore a wide variety of solutions.

Dot Voting

A quick, visual voting technique that reveals team consensus without lengthy discussion—essential for prioritization workshops.

Focus Management: Navigation without a Mouse

Learn to design and manage navigation focus in your digital product to ensure a smooth experience for keyboard users, screen readers, and assistive technology.

Form Validation Timing: Reward and Rules

Learn when the optimal moment is to validate your form data to reduce user flow interruption and improve your interfaces' conversion rate.

Heuristic Evaluations

Learn how to conduct a Heuristic Evaluation, a usability inspection method for identifying design problems in an interface based on recognized usability principles.

Input Masking Dangers: Usability vs. Format

Learn why input masks can be a usability trap and discover alternative strategies to guide the user without frustrating them.

Intrinsic Layout Decisions: Content vs. Boxes

Learn to make design decisions based on intrinsic logic to create layouts that intelligently adapt to content without relying on rigid grids.

Layout Decisions: Grid vs. Intrinsic

Learn to choose between a grid-based design (Grid) and a content-based design (Intrinsic) to create fluid and modern digital layouts.

Loading States: The Indulgent Wait in UX

Learn to design loading states that reduce user anxiety, communicate system progress, and improve the perceived speed of your digital product.

Optimistic Updates and Rollback UX

Learn to design optimistic updates so your application feels instantaneous to the user, and how to manage network failures with elegant rollback experiences.

Quantitative Data

Understand what Quantitative Data is in UX and how it differs from qualitative data. Learn how to use metrics to measure user behavior at scale.

Responsive Scaling Strategies: Liquid UI

Learn to choose and apply different responsive scaling strategies so your components and layouts adapt fluidly to any screen size.

Safeguards for Destructive Actions: Positive Friction

Learn to design safeguards and intentional friction mechanisms to prevent your users from accidentally performing irreversible actions in your digital product.

Screen Reader Testing: The Ear of UX

Learn to effectively perform screen reader testing to verify that your design and information architecture are accessible to blind or visually impaired users.

Token Aliasing and Inheritance Strategy

Learn to implement a design token aliasing and inheritance strategy to create highly flexible, maintainable systems prepared for multiple themes.

Tree Testing

Usability Testing

Discover Usability Testing, a fundamental research technique for evaluating the ease of use of your product by observing real users as they attempt to complete tasks.

User Interviews

Master the art of User Interviews, an essential qualitative research technique for gaining a deep understanding of your users' needs, behaviors, and motivations.

Variant Explosion Control (Wrangling Systems)

Learn to optimize and simplify your Figma component architecture to avoid unmanageable variant explosions and improve the performance of your design files.