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New Articles Small Pictures on Big Screens: Scaling Up from Mobile to Desktop If an image works well on a small screen, think about how it will grow and shift to fill the space on a larger monitor. Consider relative screen space and information density, paying close attention to cropping, scaling and proportions. Show more things, not just bigger things. (6 min. to read) Homepage Links Remain a Necessity A site logo linking to the homepage is not enough. Logo design and placement, as well as the presence of a text link to the homepage affect success of navigation to homepage. (4 min. to read) New Video Human Technology Teamwork: The Role of Machines and Humans in Good UX Design (Don Norman) Don Norman explains Human Technology Teamwork and why forcing people to act like machines fails. Instead, allow people do what they are good at. (2 min. video) UX Conference Sydney, Australia: July 23–28 Vancouver, Canada: August 13–18 New York City: September 9–15 Chicago: October 7–13 London: November 11–17 Full event program describing all full-day UX training courses. Online Seminars Building a 2.0: Making Big Changes Without Causing Big Wave (August 24) Initiating a Design System: Addressing challenges of scaling user interface design and development (September 21) NEW See list of all online seminars, including on-demand seminars. Analytics vs. Quant Usability Testing Now in Spanish Last week’s video on Analytics vs. Quantitative Usability Testing is now available with Spanish subtitles, curtesy of a loyal reader (“Analítica Web vs Estudio Cuantitativo de Usabilidad”). (To show subtitles, click the “CC” icon in the lower right of the video. To change language, if the default isn’t to your liking, click the gear icon and select from the menu of choices.) Spread the UX Word in Your Country If you live in a non-English speaking country, you can help promote UX in your country by adding translated subtitles to your favorite videos. Since most videos only run for 2 minutes, such translations are quick to produce, especially since you can work from an almost-good-enough machine-translated draft provided by the system. YouTube has a personalized list of videos it thinks you should translate. If the system guesses wrong about your native language or if there are other videos you prefer to translate, you can do so manually: Go to the video you do want to translate Click the gear icon and select the subtitles menu Click “Add subtitles/CC” Specify the language you want to add, and (my advice) ask for the autotranslated text as a starting point Copyright © 2017 Nielsen Norman Group, All rights reserved. You're receiving this newsletter because you subscribed at http://www.nngroup.com/articles/subscribe/ Our mailing address is: Nielsen Norman Group 48105 Warm Springs Blvd. Fremont, CA 94539-7498, USA Add us to your address book Is this email not displaying correctly? View it in your browser. unsubscribe from this list | change your subscription email address