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Card Sorting: The Ultimate Guide for 2026 - Article hero image
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Card Sorting: The Ultimate Guide for 2026

Whenever you’re working in UX (User Experience) design, you have to understand user expectations if you’re going to be able to group information effectively. Card sorting is a handy and relatively simple way to engage participants so they categorize topics in a way they find logical. This approach h

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4 Common Pitfalls in Usability Testing and How to Avoid Them to Get More Honest Feedback

Usability testing is a cornerstone of the design thinking process. There are, however, common pitfalls that reduce the value of your test sessions. Here, we’ll go through four common issues you’ll encounter when you test your prototypes, as well as how to avoid each of them. At the end, we’ll also g

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Make Your UX Design Process Agile Using Google’s Methodology

In an age of tight resources and constrained finances companies are more reluctant than ever to commit to big design projects without a thorough understanding of their chances of success. Google has developed a methodology to make the design process fast and still offer valuable insight. Forget mini

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Habits: Five ways to help users change them

Let’s take a look at a subject that might appear tricky for designers to influence. However much control we have over our designs, we still have the power to reach beyond. Guiding our users toward a better UX isn’t only simpler than you might think; it will also pay dividends to both you and them an

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How to Reduce Cognitive Friction in Mobile

There’s nothing more annoying than when things don’t function the way we expect them to. When users interact with a UI, they make sense of its elements in relation to the “real world”—think of the trash can icon or a button: in essence, they look like their physical world counterparts. Cognitive fri

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What is Design Thinking and Why Is It So Popular?

Design Thinking is not an exclusive property of designers—all great innovators in literature, art, music, science, engineering, and business have practiced it. So, why call it Design Thinking? What’s special about Design Thinking is that designers’ work processes can help us systematically extract,

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