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700+ UX Guidelines for Any Component, Theme, or Use Case
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Based on 150,000+ Hours of UX testing
Each guideline draws from 4,400+ qualitative, moderated, in-lab usability test sessions—real users testing live websites—combined with in-lab eye-tracking testing and quantitative studies with 18,397 users.
During testing across 18 industries, and hundreds of US and European sites, the test participants encountered 34,000+ usability issues which have been distilled into over 700 Best Practice Guidelines.

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