Advent Calendars for Web Professionals: 2017 Edition

UXMas Advent Calendar 2017

It’s December 1st and you know what that means. Today marks the first day of Advent calendars!

For the past five years, I’ve published a roundup of Advent calendars for web designers, developers, programmers, content strategists, user experience professionals, digital marketers, any person who works on and creates content for the web.

I’ve done my research in the past few weeks to uncover what I think are some fun and interesting Advent calendars for web professionals.

You’ll find some of my long-time favorites in the list: 24 ways, Performance Calendar, SysAdvent, UXMas, and several new ones. Continue reading Advent Calendars for Web Professionals: 2017 Edition

10 Research Guiding Principles (That We Live and Work By)

In their 10 Research Guiding Principles (That We Live and Work By) webinar, hosted by User Experience Professionals Association (UXPA), Leah Rader and Beth Toland shared 10 guiding principles for conducting user research.

Rader and Toland discussed lessons learned from years of design research, specific ways you can try out the principles, and shared ideas and resources to learn more. Continue reading 10 Research Guiding Principles (That We Live and Work By)

Centered Text is Good for Wedding Invitations and Wine Labels, not for the Web

three bottles of california chardonnay bottles in a row

When I read Jared Spool’s tweet, I smiled and nodded my head.

Why was I smiling? Continue reading Centered Text is Good for Wedding Invitations and Wine Labels, not for the Web