5 Essential UI & UX Micro-Tips
This article features a collection of handy tips to help improve your designs in an instant.
When creating efficient, accessible, and beautiful UIs, it takes only the smallest tweaks to improve your designs.
Here’s a selection of easy to put into practice UI & UX micro-tips.
With little effort, tips that can help improve both your designs, and the user experience.
1. Are you speaking in a more informal tone? Try using all lowercase.
By using a heavier font weight and caps, your design can come across a little too formal for your intentions.
Try choosing all-lowercase, and a lighter font-weight.
This seemingly minor change can result in a more informal, and approachable message when working on certain projects.
2. Use weight, size, and colour to indicate hierarchy within your type.
Elements don’t have to scream “Look at me!” all the time, whether you’re working with type or UX writing.
However, a balanced hierarchy is crucial.
Just subtle adjustments via the use of weight, size, and colour is all it takes to achieve this.
This allows the user to scan and find the most important elements, avoiding any confusion in the process.
3. Light Text on dark? Thicken up that font-weight for the best legibility.
When setting dark text against a light background you can, occasionally, opt for a lighter font-weight.
But…
… when it comes to the reverse: light text > dark background…
… you should look at fattening up the font-weight a little, especially for long-form copy.
Aim for the best legibility, and avoid straining your user’s eyes.
4. Create the right emotional response with your typeface choices.
Try to choose the appropriate typeface for the content you’re presenting.
Users are savvy because they have an intuitive sense of when content is talking to them, and when it’s not.
The correct choice of typeface is key in making your content speak to them directly, and on an emotional level.
5. If you (have to) use multiple typefaces, try to stick to the 2 max rule.
For me, I try to stick to the 1 Typeface rule whenever possible.
But.
If the project demands it, I recommend maxing out those typeface-combos at 2.
No more.
Combining typefaces well can be tricky for the inexperienced.
Go easy on yourself and don’t just add another typeface just because you can.
Using a maximum of 2, and then a combination of weight, size, and colour can bring instant visual harmony to your designs.
I hope with this short collection of tips you’ve realized how the smallest of adjustments to your designs can produce better end-results for both yourself, and your users.
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