You’re a UI designer. You’ve heard about the Taptic Engine on the iPhones and watched the developer videos where Apple encourages you to integrate them into your design. At first you thought, it’s only on the iPhone 6S. It’s a small market. Then the next iPhone came and you procrastinated more. And now it’s maybe… Continue reading Get Started with iPhone’s Taptic Engine.
Category: Design
Design is the method of putting form and content together. Design, just as art, has multiple definitions; there is no single definition. Design can be art. Design can be aesthetics. Design is so simple, that’s why it is so complicated.
What designers can learn from the iPhone X
I’ve been playing around with the iPhone X for a couple of days now. The one thing that surprises me the most is how different it is from all the previous models. It’s the most radical deviation from the original iPhone, and yet — or perhaps precisely because of it — the best update so far. With it’s high… Continue reading What designers can learn from the iPhone X
How to make smart group decisions on food — iPhoneX experience design
Step 3. Key findings from User Research Most people handle food decisions over text or email. Cite: This data comes from a research called Looking at the Food [data], conducted by Hannah Moyers. The results are from a survey which has gained 150 responses, with half of them coming from the US. 2. Users chat (physically or… Continue reading How to make smart group decisions on food — iPhoneX experience design
The relationship between design deliverables and presentation skills
In 13 years working in UX, I have joined a considerable number of meetings where UX Designers present their work to the rest of the team. More than I can remember, to be brutally honest. Consumer journeys, sitemaps, wireframes, benchmark audits, personas, user research reports — the list of deliverables designers are creating is huge. Presenting work… Continue reading The relationship between design deliverables and presentation skills
Using AI in design, questions designers should be asking, storyboarding, and more UX this week
If you like the links, don’t forget to ???????????????????????????????????????????????????????? How AI has started to impact our work as designers → “The end is near”, according to specialists in robotics and artificial intelligence. Not really the end of the world itself, but the fact robots will be taking over a portion of jobs currently occupied by… Continue reading Using AI in design, questions designers should be asking, storyboarding, and more UX this week
The Ignored Obvious of UX Design Interviews (and interviews in general)
#1 Do Your Research Being a UX Designer, I use research to understand the problem at hand, know my audience, and gather enough context information to make an informed decision for further steps. Research is an integral part of my design process and I apply the same to interviews. In most cases, especially UX Interviews, the… Continue reading The Ignored Obvious of UX Design Interviews (and interviews in general)
Beautiful UX deliverables, persuasive design, copying Snapchat, and more UX this week
If you like the links, don’t forget to ???????????????????????????????????????????????????????? Beautifully crafted UX deliverables for your inspiration → When people think of UX Design documentation, — wireframes, flows, personas — the first image that comes to mind is dense, long, and heavily annotated documents, full of boxes and arrows that indicate how a system is going to function and behave.… Continue reading Beautiful UX deliverables, persuasive design, copying Snapchat, and more UX this week
Wireframes, flows, personas and beautifully crafted UX deliverables for your inspiration
When people think of UX Design documentation, the first image that comes to mind is dense, long, and heavily annotated wireframes, full of boxes and arrows that indicate how a system is going to function and behave. But it doesn’t have to be like that. Here are a few examples of UX deliverables that are… Continue reading Wireframes, flows, personas and beautifully crafted UX deliverables for your inspiration
Interviewing design interns at Facebook
Geunbae “GB” Lee Degree Pursuing M.S in Human Computer Interaction at Georgia Tech Profile Links Portfolio Website / LinkedIn / Medium / Dribbble How did you get into design? A couple years back, I graduated with a degree in Psychology. While I was trying to figure out what I wanted to do with my life and most… Continue reading Interviewing design interns at Facebook
Chatbot User Experience 101: Vital Tips to Improve Chatbot UX
Use Simple Language & Diction in Your Chatbot Design Process It can’t be overstated how important personality is for a chatbot; personality makes a bot fun to talk to. When you’ve developed a bot personality, ensure your bot’s voice remains consistent throughout the conversation. Moments where a bot speaks “out of character” can be immersion breaking… Continue reading Chatbot User Experience 101: Vital Tips to Improve Chatbot UX
How To Use Color In UI Design Wisely to Create A Perfect UI Interface?
Whenever found an interface that looks nice, clean and elegant, I save it. Now I have a collection of more than 100 UI interfaces. After learning, making use of or simply viewing it again and again, I finally realized something in common. It is always the color that steals my heart at the very first… Continue reading How To Use Color In UI Design Wisely to Create A Perfect UI Interface?
Don’t Drink the Kool-Aid: Why Apple’s New Approach to Diversity and Inclusion is Deeply Problematic
The men and women who are responsible for leading companies and organizations in promoting, acknowledging, and valuing diversity and inclusion in the workplace carry a heavy burden and responsibility. Especially in Silicon Valley. They wake up, praying as they check their emails and social media feeds, “Dear God, please don’t let one person’s foolishness displayed… Continue reading Don’t Drink the Kool-Aid: Why Apple’s New Approach to Diversity and Inclusion is Deeply Problematic
Notification overload and coping with dark design patterns.
Design in 2017. Here’s how most of ours days start. We wake up swearing because we need another 2 hours sleep, turn off the alarm and check our phone. When we swipe down the notifications drawer, we see tonnes of work emails, Instagram and Facebook notifications, Slack messages and calendar invites. Even Medium notifies me of… Continue reading Notification overload and coping with dark design patterns.
The age of empathy, Slack groups, designing with AI and more UX links this week
If you like the links, don’t forget to ???????????????????????????????????????????????????????? Stop doing user interviews; start having conversations → There’s something I’ve realized lately, that’s making my user interviews go smoother and getting deeper, more nuanced insights. The key is this: relax. Take a step back, for a moment. What is a user interview? If yours are… Continue reading The age of empathy, Slack groups, designing with AI and more UX links this week
The best Slack groups for UX designers
Tons of companies are using Slack to organize and facilitate how their employees communicate on a daily basis. Slack has now more than 5 million daily active users and more than 60,000 teams around the world. But whether the company you work for use Slack or not, you can still use the tool to connect… Continue reading The best Slack groups for UX designers
Creating a first Product Design System in Sketch
The first days I remember the first day I joined Agorize, I asked the PM if there is a styleguide I can use in Sketch. He told me we didn’t have any styleguide and only had some screens designed in Photoshop. The problem is that we have a product with a consumer-facing side and a client-facing… Continue reading Creating a first Product Design System in Sketch
Essential Ingredients For Every Competitive Analysis
The Whys Why are competitors doing things a certain way? Why do people trust or use a competitor’s product? Why is a particular product among the top 3 or top 5 solutions in the market? One of the most effective practice is to use the 5 Whys technique. You can read more about it here.… Continue reading Essential Ingredients For Every Competitive Analysis
The 5 questions you should be asking yourself all day, everyday #UX
The other day I found myself writing down a list of 5 questions I was asking myself more frequently than ever in the projects I am working on — and decided to pass it on to my team as well. The agency life is extremely fast-paced. Each Experience Designer on my team is simultaneously involved in two… Continue reading The 5 questions you should be asking yourself all day, everyday #UX
Marketing and UX, perfect error messages, prototyping with Lottie and Principle and more UX links
Ending a client meeting at the perfect time, according to Paula Scher → You are giving a presentation. This line is the line of the reasonable level of expectation that everyone has when you walk into the room. You begin to present, and you come above the reasonable level of expectation; everybody gets enthusiastic, people begin… Continue reading Marketing and UX, perfect error messages, prototyping with Lottie and Principle and more UX links
No Digital Tools needed: Creating Digital Products
Photo by Climate KIC on Unsplash I am sure, every UI and UX Designer knows that kind of problem: You have received a briefing for a new project. Everybody is on fire and is going to do some fancy stuff for it. But how to start? How to create innovative ideas? How to set your mind… Continue reading No Digital Tools needed: Creating Digital Products
Copy narcissism, design for startups, Sephora’s UX and other links this week
If you like the links, don’t forget to ???????????????????????????????????????????????????????? When copy loves itself too much → One time, I nearly lost my mind while brainstorming copy for a holiday print ad. I was writing for Havenly, an interior design company, and we were advertising in a popular home decorating magazine. “Keep it simple,” I told myself,… Continue reading Copy narcissism, design for startups, Sephora’s UX and other links this week
When Copy Loves Itself Too Much
One time, I nearly lost my mind while brainstorming copy for a holiday print ad. I was writing for Havenly, an interior design company, and we were advertising in a popular home decorating magazine. “Keep it simple,” I told myself, “this has been done hundreds of times before.” An ad that took way too long… Continue reading When Copy Loves Itself Too Much
Airbnb First Date Concept
Iterations After synthesizing the insights, I re-iterated on the concepts to alleviate the weaknesses and further highlight the strengths. Idea 1: Bingo x Digital Gift Combining Bingo and Digital Gift Exchange Concepts Medium Fidelity Wireframes of Situations Where Their Interests Matched and Don’t After testing, I decided to remove the gamified portion of the concept and replaced it… Continue reading Airbnb First Date Concept
Monitoring the user's brain for usability testing
I have a habit of connecting the dots between design and various other fields of studies which I start learning about. Lately, I have been learning neurosciences and thinking about how we could harness findings from it to designing better products. It gave me chills. For instance, introduction of brain activity monitoring device such as… Continue reading Monitoring the user's brain for usability testing