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Top 10 UX Articles of 2022

The following user-experience articles published in 2022 were the ones our audience read the most:

  1. Data Tables: Four Major User Tasks
    Table design should support four common user tasks: find records that fit specific criteria, compare data, view/edit/add a single row’s data, and take actions on records.
  2. UX Strategy: Definition and Components
    A UX strategy is a 3-part plan that fosters shared understanding of direction toward achieving goals before designing and implementing solutions. It serves to intentionally guide the prioritization and execution of UX work over time.
  3. Best Font for Online Reading: No Single Answer
    Among high-legibility fonts, a study found 35% difference in reading speeds between the best and the worst. People read 11% slower for every 20 years they age.
  4. A Guide to Using User-Experience Research Methods
    Modern day UX research methods answer a wide range of questions. To help you know when to use which user research method, each of 20 methods is mapped across 3 dimensions and over time within a typical product-development process.
  5. Infinite Scrolling: When to Use It, When to Avoid It
    Infinite scrolling minimizes interaction costs and increases user engagement, but it isn’t a good fit for every website. For some, pagination or a Load More button will be a better solution.
  6. Personas vs. Archetypes
    Archetypes and personas used for UX work contain similar insights, are based on similar kinds of data, and differ mainly in presentation. Personas are presented as a single human character, whereas archetypes are not tied to specific names or faces.
  7. Setting UX Roles and Responsibilities in Product Development: The RACI Template
    Use a flexible responsibility-assignment matrix to clarify UX roles and responsibilities, anticipate team collaboration points, and maintain productivity in product development.
  8. Using Grids in Interface Designs
    Grids help designers create cohesive layouts, allowing end users to easily scan and use interfaces. A good grid adapts to various screen sizes and orientations, ensuring consistency across platforms.
  9. Two Tips for Better UX Storytelling
    Effective storytelling involves both engaging the audience and structuring stories in a concise, yet effective manner. You can improve your user stories by taking advantage of the concept of story triangle and of the story-mountain template.
  10. Antipersonas: What, How, Who, and Why?
    Antipersonas help anticipate how products can be misused in ways that can harm users and the business.

Top 10 Study Guides

We launched a new content format: the study guide, which structures our articles and videos about a certain topic, and guides learners to study the topic in the best sequence. These were our 10 most popular study guides in 2022:

  1. UX Writing
  2. Information Architecture
  3. Mobile UX
  4. Design Thinking
  5. Psychology for UX
  6. Design-Pattern Guidelines
  7. Lean UX & Agile
  8. Service Design
  9. Visual Design in UX
  10. Qualitative Usability Testing

Bonus: Top 5 Articles from Last Year

The following articles were published in 2021 but were so popular in 2022 that they would have earned a place in the above list based on this year’s readership numbers alone:

  1. Design Systems 101
    A design system is a set of standards to manage design at scale by reducing redundancy while creating a shared language and visual consistency across different pages and channels.
  2. Using “How Might We” Questions to Ideate on the Right Problems
    Constructing how-might-we questions generates creative solutions while keeping teams focused on the right problems to solve.
  3. Mapping User Stories in Agile
    User-story maps help Agile teams define what to build and maintain visibility for how it all fits together. They enable user-centered conversations, collaboration, and feature prioritization to align and guide iterative product development.
  4. The 6 Levels of UX Maturity
    Our UX-maturity model has 6 stages that cover processes, design, research, leadership support, and longevity of UX. Use our quiz to get an idea of your organization’s UX maturity.
  5. Problem Statements in UX Discovery
    In the discovery phase of a UX project, a problem statement is used to identify and frame the problem to be explored and solved, as well as to communicate the discovery’s scope and focus.

See Also

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