Design Under Pressure, July 4, 2025

FEATURED GLARE PAGE



If people don’t understand your product, they won’t use it. Comprehension is the first real test. Before trust. Before conversion. If that moment fails, nothing else has a chance.

On the Glare Comprehension page, we show how to measure whether your design makes sense to real people. We walk through an example from a clothing brand that launched an event suggestion feature. Before they shipped it, they stopped to ask: do users understand what this does?

The Comprehension score combines participants’ perceived ratings of their understanding with their qualitative explanations gathered through remote user surveys. This blended approach reveals both the clarity of your design and how effectively it communicates key ideas to your audience.

Comprehension keeps you honest. It helps your team see what users see. Because clarity isn’t just a UX win. It’s how you build trust, reduce waste, and stop launching features into the void.

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GLARINGLY OBVIOUS


We have the full set of interview clips available this week with Max Speicher on the idea that good research builds confident decisions.

Max highlights that well‑intentioned but poorly executed research (“some research”) can do more harm than good, leading to biased findings, false confidence, and misguided decisions. He suggests it’s often better to do no research than to rush into low-quality studies. 

→ Check out the interview clips

LINKEDIN POSTS


In this week's featured Helio post, Jeremy Bird helps teams plan UX work based on a project’s risk and complexity, so they don’t waste time on low-impact efforts or skip research where it’s needed. 

His framework gives teams a shared way to decide how much design and research effort is appropriate, making expectations clearer and workflows more efficient.

Read more:

Use risk and complexity to shape UX effort

BRYAN’S LINKEDIN POSTS


Design is more than what feels right. 

Design is about pairing intuition with data to make better decisions. In this post, Bryan breaks down how our Helio Glare framework uses 16 key questions and UX metrics to guide teams from early ideas to proven impact.

→ Design is more than what feels right 

WEBINAR

Watch our latest webinar, 'A Sharper Way To Show Your Design Works,' which is available on LinkedIn for the full replay. 

In this live session, Bryan showcases how UX metrics cut through opinions and help teams see where designs succeed or fall short... based on user behavior, not guesses!

→ Watch Bryan present now

GLARE FORUM

Bryan introduced Glare to the wider world! The links to the Blog and LinkedIn content are gathered here as conversation starters.

Mschindler is Looking for an Evidence-Based  Severity Scale for UXR Findings (Beyond Product Context) 

GLARE RELEASE NOTES

💎 Helio UX Metrics Beta, Glare SSO & Mobile Upgrades!

Glare v0.9.9.3 is live with major updates to Helio's reporting and Glare's community experience.

Helio Reporting Beta: The UX Metric Rehaul for our Report Builder is now in beta! This includes official metric grouping and safeguards to prevent users from breaking scores. We've also shipped custom branded alert modals.

Glare SSO & UI Polish: Log in to the Glare community with your Helio account thanks to our new SSO integration. We've also cleaned up the interview pages for better mobile viewing and thumbnail support.

Check out the v0.9.9.3 Release Notes

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