Day 88 - Advice for Conducting User Research Interviews

• Set schedule yourself
• Factor in breaks
• Recruit more participants than you need
• Record the sessions
• Be casual and conversational
• Ask open-ended questions
• Ask about behaviors not feelings
• Don’t judge their answers
• Paraphrase what you heard
• Be grateful

Day 87 - Designing with Empathy

Millions of people world wide have a disability so remember to design with empathy.

1. Pay attention to color for people with color blindness
2. Learn how screen readers work
3. Label everything usefully
4. Put yourself in the customer's shoes
5. Talk to people with disabilities

Day 86 - Ten Typography Tips

1. Don't be trendy.
2. Don't use too many fonts.
3. Choose different typefaces that work together.
4. Don't forget about serifs.
5. Be consistent.
6. Create a hierarchy.
7. Legibility is important across all devices, sizes, and experiences.
8. Don't crowd the typography.
9. Create equal 'Perceived' space between letters.
10. Less is more.

Day 85 - White Space

Five ways white space affects the user experience:

1. White space makes your content stand out.
2. White space helps the user focus on what's critical.
3. White space simplifies your designs.
4. White space makes your designs elegant.
5. White space allows for scannability.

Day 84 - Five Copywriting Tips

1. When you're editing copy read it out loud.
2. Make links clear and relevant.  Make sure your links make it absolutely clear what will happen on click.
3. Do more research. The best copywriters are determined researchers.
4. Make it scannable and visually appealing. People scan pages quickly so get to the point.
5. Refine your headline.  People read headlines more than they do body copy.  If the headline draws them in they might read further.

Day 83 - Iteration

Perform iterative design. It's rare to get things right the first time. Create multiple interaction designs, get feedback, and try different things.  Repeating, changing, and simplifying your designs can help you hone in on the problem you're trying to solve.

Day 82 - Clean Visual Design Tips

1. Clean design reduces conscious effort on part of the user to find information.
2. Deciding relevance. Does user even care about your information?
3. Ability to scan an overview. Convey the main ideas.
4. Basic comprehension.  Use visual design to make it easier on user to understand the information.
5. Ability to easily find actionable details.