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Here's this week’s round-up: a mix of design discoveries, dev experiments, and a sprinkle of career advice. Out of the lot, my personal pick is "You don't need to manipulate to influence users' decisions" — a timely reminder that good design is honest as well as effective.
So, whether you’re curious about left-handed UX or stepped gradients, there’s plenty to get stuck into.
Catch you next week!
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UX Strategies for Complex-Application Design
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Designing Better UX For Left-Handed People
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You don't need to manipulate to influence users' decisions
The art of coaxing users' decisions without unethical practices.
Which product first introduced pull-to-refresh as a mobile interaction?
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A First Look at the Interest Invoker API (for Hover-Triggered Popovers)
Chrome 139 is experimenting with Open UI’s proposed Interest Invoker API, which would be used to create tooltips, hover menus, hover cards, quick actions, and other types of UIs for showing more information with hover interactions.
Step Gradients with a Given Number of Steps
Let’s say we want some stepped gradients, with a certain number of steps.
Designing for User Font-size and Zoom
When I tried setting my browser font-size preferences, I found it broke more sites than it improved, and I quickly moved back to the default. So what went wrong, and how can we fix it?
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