I will start my internship in a company I like in a few days. It brings a deep smile to my face. However, this article is about the difficult moments behind this smile — moments when I lost my confidence and felt upset, hopeless, and insufficient. In the past few months, I had a lot… Continue reading A guide to getting UX Research internships — the story of a smile
How to kick off strategic research if you are NOT Spotify?
First steps of strategic product research at Glovo by UXR & Data ✏️ Illustrations credits to Ivan Mesaroš / Available on Blush From Spotify, all the way to Microsoft, Booking.com and many more, the leveraging of multidisciplinary teams to conduct product research seems THE WAY to achieve more actionable, comprehensive insights providing a higher likelihood of making… Continue reading How to kick off strategic research if you are NOT Spotify?
Rapid Personas: a play for your UX Playbook
Sketches of people in action poses, by Uday Gajendar It’s hard to write any article about personas — the design artifact people love to hate — without a string of caveats. But, here I am, writing about personas with no caveats. Let’s do it. With the Rapid Personas play I’m trying to address a couple… Continue reading Rapid Personas: a play for your UX Playbook
Super-helpful tips when working with Figma component properties
Handy tips to improve your understanding of Component Props Continue reading on UX Collective »
Exploring interstitial spaces
Embracing the serendipitous as design process Book interior page spread Relinquishing control Dictionary.com defines serendipity as “an aptitude for making desirable discoveries by accident”. My first acquaintance with serendipity as an element immersed within a design process was at a talk delivered by a photographer who would daily “put himself in the way of the… Continue reading Exploring interstitial spaces
Create a Dismissible Alert With JavaScript (and localStorage)
Unfortunately, always displaying an alert takes up much-needed screen real estate. We can resolve this by making it dismissible. Today, we’ll build one from scratch using localStorage and JavaScript. What We’re Creating The example in this case is a primitive portfolio-like website with a footer, navigation, and content area. At the top of the viewport,… Continue reading Create a Dismissible Alert With JavaScript (and localStorage)
When brown becomes a shade of orange in data visualization
Using the color Brown to create sequential and diverging color schemes. Continue reading on UX Collective »
What is a Design System? A simple guide to get started
A design system is a library of guidelines and reusable components that should establish the consistency of the product experience. The goal of a design system is to create a single source of truth, that is visible and maintainable by the team. Perhaps not all teams need a design system. However, from my personal experience,… Continue reading What is a Design System? A simple guide to get started
15 Top Schedule Planners in Figma & Adobe XD to Download in 2022
Are you a designer creating apps or task management platforms? Helping your clients to keep a realistic schedule planner can change the way they manage their time. Create your own using a schedule planner template for Figma or Adobe XD. This is a great schedule planner template for Figma and Adobe XD. A well designed… Continue reading 15 Top Schedule Planners in Figma & Adobe XD to Download in 2022
Let me be stupid — Creating experiences that are effortless
Let me be stupid — Creating experiences that are effortless While browsing Reddit the other day I stumbled upon this thread.The question asked was simple: ‘Do you ever wish you were a little more intelligent?’ I clicked on the thread expecting answers to range from ‘Duh’ to ‘HELL YES’, but I was extremely surprised when I saw… Continue reading Let me be stupid — Creating experiences that are effortless
Evolving animal personas as design tools with interspecies design
How learnings from interspecies design make non-human personas more effective in protecting and engaging animals Photo by redcharlie on Unsplash Just like user personas, non-human personas represent key stakeholders in design—the animals and environments impacted by human creations. With only a few years in design conversation, however, non-human personas are still very much developing. How… Continue reading Evolving animal personas as design tools with interspecies design
20+ Best Dashboard UI Kits for Figma 2022
Whether you’re a professional designer or simply like to dabble, Figma is a fantastic platform for creating websites and apps for a wide variety of purposes. Where this tool really shines is in creating dashboards and user-interfaces for said websites and apps. With that in mind, we’ve taken the time to put together a collection… Continue reading 20+ Best Dashboard UI Kits for Figma 2022
15+ Best Figma Templates for UI and Web Designers
When creating a website or app, it’s essential to have a bunch of resources on hand to play with. That is, you don’t want to recycle the same old designs over and over again. Nor do you want to create the same designs everyone else is making – because they’re all working with the same… Continue reading 15+ Best Figma Templates for UI and Web Designers
3 Essential Design Trends, July 2022
There are a lot of dark, retro vibes trending in website design right now. Although there are still some light projects popping up – including a pastel trend below – a lot of what we are seeing has a quite moody feel. Here’s what’s trending in design this month. Pastel Color Palettes Let’s start… Continue reading 3 Essential Design Trends, July 2022
A Beginner’s Guide to the Character Panel in Illustrator
In the following tutorial, you’ll learn everything you need to know about Adobe Illustrator’s Character panel. You can read this detailed written guide, and additionally, you can follow this new video from the Envato Tuts+ YouTube channel: What You’ll Learn in This Character Panel Illustrator Tutorial How to open the Character panel in Illustrator … Continue reading A Beginner’s Guide to the Character Panel in Illustrator
Stealing like an artist — design heuristics in creative ideation
Stealing like an artist — design heuristics in creative ideation Mental shortcuts and cognitive frameworks aren’t only useful in everyday judgments and problem-solving. When faced with creative challenges, we can also tap into our “design brain” to channel previously encountered ideas into our own work. At their core, design heuristics are the combination, exploration, or transformation of often already… Continue reading Stealing like an artist — design heuristics in creative ideation
The vanishing designer, Prototyper for Figma, understanding service models
Look around us. Every business is an app and every app feels the same, because every designer has the same resume, follows the same process, graduates from the same program, uses the same tool, scrolls the same Dribbble feed, reads the same Medium articles, expects the same career outcome, lives in the same ideology bubble.… Continue reading The vanishing designer, Prototyper for Figma, understanding service models
10 Best Real Estate Listing Plugins for WordPress
Are you having trouble finding a high quality real estate listing plugin for WordPress? Do you need a full-featured real estate plugin that helps make your real estate transactions more efficient? WPL Pro Real Estate is one of the many high quality MLS WordPress plugins on CodeCanyon Create a robust database of properties for your… Continue reading 10 Best Real Estate Listing Plugins for WordPress
I’m not a robot (but, are you?)
The case for authenticating humans, reclaiming our identities, and defending against the coming swarm of bots. It’s 2022 and we are living in the opening scene of a dystopian Black Mirror episode. The line between what is real and what is fake has already blurred. The line between who is real and who is fake is now… Continue reading I’m not a robot (but, are you?)
Designing against complexity
The first line of defense to solve a complex problem is to avoid complexity all together Designers struggle to deal with complexity. Designers have a bias; they look at every problem as one that could be solved by studying the user. Tools like personas, empathy mapping, or journey mapping do little to uncover the systemic… Continue reading Designing against complexity
How to Update UIkit Components
Here’s the demo page that we’re going to create to demonstrate things: Be sure to scroll down the page to notice how specific elements become sticky. As with other UIkit tutorials, familiarity with this framework will be beneficial to follow along. The Demo Project Our page will consist of the following sections: The header… Continue reading How to Update UIkit Components
Projectopia WordPress Project Management Plugin Review
Want to streamline how you manage client projects? Successfully delivering projects on time is all about being organized and cutting out obstacles to efficiency. For this to happen, everyone involved must be on the same page. Here is where Projectopia comes in handy! Projectopia is one of the best project management plugin for small businesses and freelancers who… Continue reading Projectopia WordPress Project Management Plugin Review
10 Best Exit Intent Popup Plugins for WordPress
Are you having trouble keeping visitors on your website? Do you want to boost your conversions and sales? ConvertPlus is one of the many high quality exit-intent WordPress plugins on CodeCanyon. Keep website visitors on your website and grow your business with exit intent WordPress plugins. These plugins will quickly improve your retention, sales, or… Continue reading 10 Best Exit Intent Popup Plugins for WordPress
10 Lesser-Known (But Incredibly Useful) WordPress Plugins
There are several notable WordPress plugins that just about every web professional knows about. They have a large following and tend to be market leaders in their niche. But most of them, at one point, started as smaller projects. Their popularity grew over time. Today, we’ll look at 10 plugins that don’t have that same… Continue reading 10 Lesser-Known (But Incredibly Useful) WordPress Plugins