Product designNavigation and link labels: what NN/g research showsOct 06, 2026Hidden menus, link labels, visited links and pagination. What the NN/g archive measures in navigation, and where its own articles disagree.Blog
Product decisions, the numbers behind them and what changed in the funnel.
Category: Product design
Product designNavigation and link labels: what NN/g research showsOct 06, 2026Hidden menus, link labels, visited links and pagination. What the NN/g archive measures in navigation, and where its own articles disagree.
Product designTypography and reading on screen: what research measuresOct 06, 2026Nielsen Norman Group measured font speed, scan patterns, and how little people read. A guide to what its experiments actually show.
Product designSingle field signup vs staged form: what the research showsSep 18, 2026Ask for one identifier first, then ask for the rest when the user needs the feature. What Baymard and WCAG say about signup fields, labels and autofill.
Product designAI in the design workflow: where it helps and hurtsAug 05, 2026AI cuts the cost of production in a design workflow, not the cost of a decision. Where it helps, where it hurts, and what stays under human control.
Product designDark mode is not inverted color: contrast in practiceJul 03, 2026Why dark mode is not inverted color, what WCAG 2.2 asks from text, components, focus and disabled states, and how to test contrast in the build.
Product designDense data products fail on hierarchy, not on volumeJun 21, 2026A dense table is not the problem. Showing every field with the same weight is. Hierarchy by weight, space and grouping, plus filter, sort and empty states.