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by Will Grant
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Every digital product you have ever used was designed by someone. Some of those products feel invisible. They work so smoothly that you never stop to think about the interface. You open the app, complete your task, and move on with your day. Other products feel like a battle. You hunt for buttons that do not look clickable. You fill out forms that erase your data when you make a small mistake. You navigate menus that seem designed by someone who has never actually used the product.
**Author:** Will Grant **Estimated Reading Time:** 2 hours 15 minutes
The fundamental principles that separate intuitive digital products from frustrating ones. You will learn how to make design decisions that respect users, reduce friction, and create experiences that feel effortless. This condensed edition covers typography, controls, forms, navigation, accessibility, copywriting, search, and the mindset required to build products people genuinely enjoy using.
Product designers and UX practitioners who want a reliable reference for everyday decisions. Developers who build interfaces and need to understand why certain patterns work. Product managers who want to advocate for user-centered choices. Founders and entrepreneurs who need their products to succeed in competitive markets. Anyone who has ever felt frustrated by a poorly designed website or app and wondered how to do better.
Every digital product you have ever used was designed by someone. Some of those products feel invisible. They work so smoothly that you never stop to think about the interface. You open the app, complete your task, and move on with your day. Other products feel like a battle. You hunt for buttons that do not look clickable. You fill out forms that erase your data when you make a small mistake. You navigate menus that seem designed by someone who has never actually used the product. The difference between these two experiences is not luck. It is not budget. It is not even talent, though talent helps. The difference is whether the people who built the product understood a set of fundamental principles about how humans interact with technology. Will Grant has spent more than twenty-five years designing digital products. He has worked on mobile apps, enterprise software, and consumer platforms. Across all of that work, he has noticed something important. The same problems appear again and again, regardless of the industry or the technology. Designers make the same mistakes. Teams make the same poor assumptions. Products fail for the same preventable reasons. This book exists because those mistakes are avoidable. The challenge with UX is that everyone has opinions about it. Unlike backend architecture or database design, interface design feels accessible. Anyone can look at a screen and say whether they like it. But liking something is not the same as understanding whether it works. A beautiful interface can be completely unusable. A visually plain interface can be extraordinarily effective. The only way to tell the difference is to apply objective principles rather than subjective preferences. Grant's approach is refreshingly direct. He does not offer a grand theory of design or a complicated methodology. Instead, he provides concrete, actionable principles that can be applied immediately. Each principle addresses a specific problem that real users encounter. Each one is grounded in how…
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Get the complete summary in the appEmpathy and objectivity are the foundation of good UX. Understand your users and test your assumptions.
Use a maximum of two typefaces and use type size to create clear visual hierarchy.
Make buttons look like buttons. Users should never guess what is interactive.
Minimize form fields. Every field costs users time and reduces completion rates.
Never clear user-entered data unless specifically asked to.
Provide clear navigation cues. Users should always know where they are.
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Motivated to help readers with empathy and objectivity are the primary skills you must possess to be good at UX, Will Grant wrote “101 UX Principles” to package those ideas for a fast, focused read. In “101 UX Principles”, Will Grant focuses on empathy and objectivity are the primary skills you must possess to be good at UX. Through “101 UX Principles”, Will Grant distills the core ideas on design into lessons readers can absorb in a single short sitting. Readers turn to this work when they want…
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