“The first time I used one of these tools, it felt like a novelty,” says Osman Gunes Cizmeci, a New York–based UX and UI ...

User interface design expert Billy Hollis is annoyed when he spots even tiny application tweaks that could improve the intuitive experience for users. He finds them everywhere, even in our favorite ...

Every design tells a story. Every story has a design. It’s your job to connect the two. It takes planning and thoughtful design every step along the way. Effective storytelling requires that you use ...

Offering harsh scrutiny in these scenarios might seem nitpicky, even mean. But holding ourselves and the design community to a higher standard of UX and UI design will only result in better product ...

The importance of ergonomics in hardware design is easy to grasp, if not always simple to carry out. The end goal is to make a device as easy and comfortable to use as possible, both physically and ...

Microsoft has been implementing a major design overhaul for all its Windows app and utility icons in line with its Fluent Design System for Windows. Now the company is taking its Fluent push to its ...

Despite macOS going through a couple major redesigns over the past couple years with Big Sur in 2020 and now Tahoe in 2025, there’s still one app that includes a very old looking interface that ...

Doug Wintemute is a staff writer for Forbes Advisor. After completing his master’s in English at York University, he began his writing career in the higher education space. Over the past decade, Doug ...