July 2020: UXperts round-up

9 diary study tools to try in your next qualitative research project + 12 Screen reader facts for accessible web design + When and how to resume face-to-face research after COVID-19 more

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How non-designers contribute to designing the tight things

How does a product team — comprising both designers and non-designers — provide the right design solutions to problems? Simply by understanding the right problems.
By Jacopo Cargnel at uxmatters.com

Designers, own your feedback

There is this common belief in our industry (and a running joke, quite frankly) that designers hate feedback. Understandable. As a designer, getting comments about your work in a feedback session can feel like putting yourself in a vulnerable position.
By Fabricio Teixeira at uxdesign.cc (UX Collective)

8 rules to help you design a better card user interface

Cards have exploded in popularity over the last decade due to the proliferation of online media and mobile apps. Unfortunately, user experience issues arise regularly from poor card design.
By Andrew Coyle at medium.netxux

Your UX design work is being copied by another designer…

… without your knowledge. When we post our work online on platforms like Dribbble, Behance or maybe our own websites, we think that as designers, we are showing our creativity to the world and sharing our work with other designers from the community to inspire them. But little do we realise that the work can get copied too, and most people don’t even know about it!
By Mehek Kapoor at uxdesign.cc

How to perfect remote UX workshops for your team

Today’s best designers are more than creators; they’re facilitators. In an increasingly multidisciplinary, collaborative, and creative process that includes many participants, they act as conductors who align and inspire the team to give their best. UX workshops are probably one of the best ways to put this into practice.
By Carlos Rosemberg at thenextweb.com (The Next Web)

9 diary study tools to try in your next qualitative research project

After you’ve set your strategy, one of the next steps in a diary study is defining the platforms and technology to use, so we did some research around nine tools that will help in the implementation, tracking, reporting and insight from your diary studies.
By Jason Stockwell at peopleforresearch.co.uk

12 Screen reader facts for accessible web design

Designing for accessibility, and specifically for screen readers, is a skill every UX designer needs. The importance of accessibility cannot be over-stressed. In this article, we will review the essential points you need to know about designing for screen readers.
By Paula Borowska at designmodo.com (Inside Designmodo)

Accessibility and inclusion in UX for product managers

A disability is a phenomenon reflecting the interaction between features of a person’s body and features of the society in which he or she lives.
By Karthikeyan Malaisamy at uxmag.com

When and how to resume face-to-face research after COVID-19

No one in user research or the UX industry expects the government to declare that user-research facilities are now open—in the same way the hospitality sector received such a notification. So we decided to conduct a study to get insights from UK research participants on when going back to face-to-face user-research sessions would be acceptable to them and whether they think face-to-face research would be safe.
By Jason Stockwell at uxmatters.com

Interview: ResearchOps with Amir Ansari

The field of user research has changed dramatically in recent years. In many organisations, research has grown from the remit of a lone, under-resourced designer or product manager to a fully-fledged practice with multiple researchers sitting in different teams and with radically different targets. Enter ResearchOps.
By Optimal Workshop at medium.com

“We need to empower people to make good decisions”

Marie Pitcherella and victoria walters talk about building a UX research practice at Frontline Education, an organisation running school administration software for K-12 education.
By UserZoom Inc. at userzoom.com