Usability heuristics & UX laws by examples

The good vs the bad. Real-world examples of usability heuristics in UX design.

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Examples by heuristics

Visibility of system status

Match between system and the real world

User control and freedom

Consistency and standards

Error prevention

Recognition rather than recall

Flexibility and efficiency of use

Aesthetic and minimalist design

Help users recognize, diagnose, and recover from errors

Help and documentation

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Latest examples

Japan House opens in mountainside to foster peak creativity.

Consistency and standards

Confusing email unsubscribe button label

Help users recognize, diagnose, and recover from errors

Bowlcut launch a new summer collection that pays homage to “UK legends”

Aesthetic and minimalist design

Thousands of previously unseen photographs by Andy Warhol will be made public this Autumn

Flexibility and efficiency of use

London-based Yinka Ilori’s storytelling furniture

User control and freedom

Anonymous Israeli art collective Broken Fingaz direct music video for U2 and Beck

Match between system and the real world

Suzanne Saroff’s meticulously arranged photographs alter perceptions

Consistency and standards

Anu Ambasna’s playful illustrations celebrate club culture, brown bodies and perfect paunches

Error prevention

Rudy Guedj’s design work sits between “figurative motives and their abstracted representations”

Visibility of system status

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