Ramadan on LaunchGood
This team won the Triwizard Tournament
Who are the Slytherin Samosas?
This iconic landmark was once a church, then a mosque, then a museum, and now a mosque again.
What is the Aya Sofia / Hagia Sophia?
This type of map visualizes the steps to accomplish a goal and helps identify friction points.
What is a user journey map?
This term refers to adjusting the spacing between individual characters in a word.
What is kerning?
This typeface, often ridiculed, is actually great for people with dyslexia.
What is Comic Sans?
This CX team member shared valuable UX insights on a daily basis.
Who is Ain Nabilah?
Islamic calligraphy often uses this script, known for its readability and use in the Qur’an.
What is Naskh?
This single metric asks users how likely they are to recommend a product to others, but is often debated in UX circles.
What is Net Promoter Score (NPS)?
This term refers to a special character created by combining two or more letters into a single glyph to improve readability or aesthetics.
What is a ligature?
You just spent 3 hours adjusting one pixel back and forth. Congratulations, you've just earned this title.
What is a pixel pusher?
The total number of donors who signed up for the Ramadan Challenge.
What is 59,000?
This intricate form of mosaic tilework, found throughout Morocco and Andalusia, is made by hand-cutting ceramic pieces into geometric patterns.
What is zellij?
This five-day process, developed at Google Ventures, helps teams rapidly ideate, prototype, and test solutions to a specific problem — without building the full product.
What is a Design Sprint?
This practice involves organizing, structuring, and labeling content in a way that helps users find information and complete tasks effectively.
What is information architecture?
You confidently presented your design only for someone to say, “Can we make it more fun?” You’ve now entered this vague direction zone.
What is subjective feedback (or vibes-only feedback)?
The total amount of Zakat, given on LaunchGood this past Ramadan.
What is $26 million?
This mosque in the UK, opened in 2019, is Europe’s first eco-friendly mosque, with timber lattices and sustainable design inspired by gardens and Islamic geometry.
What is the Cambridge Central Mosque?
This behavior-based UX signal can indicate that something’s not working as expected.
What is a rage click?
These are a set of visual organization principles that explain how humans perceive and group elements in a visual scene, leading to the perception of a whole rather than just individual parts.
What are the Gestalt principles?
This Swiss typeface lives rent-free in every designer's brain.
What is Helvetica?
Our overall target, for funds raised in Ramadan.
What is $70 million?
This layered architectural feature, often found in mosques, not only serves an aesthetic purpose, but also functions to amplify the Imam's voice.
What is a muqarnas?
This UX Law suggests that users will choose the option that requires the least effort.
What is Hick's Law?
This problem-solving approach breaks complex problems down to their most basic truths and builds up from there, rather than relying on assumptions or analogies.
What is first principles thinking?
You opened Dribbble or Behance for inspiration and now you’re spiraling into self-doubt. You’ve triggered this design phenomenon.
What is Imposter Syndrome?