Inspiring UX quotes, mobile navigation patterns, taxonomies and more UX this week

What’s hot in UX this week: Design better data tables → Data is useless without the ability to visualize and act on it. The success of future industries will couple advanced data collection with a better user experience, and the data table comprises much of this user experience. Good data tables allow users to scan, analyze,… Continue reading Inspiring UX quotes, mobile navigation patterns, taxonomies and more UX this week

The Evolution Process From A Junior Level Designer To Becoming A Design Lead

This post feels somewhat like a coming of age story. If you’re a junior designer, it might be eye opening. On the contrary, as a design lead it might be the dark satirical humor after a long day that puts a smile on your face. As designers, we all face daily battles big or small,… Continue reading The Evolution Process From A Junior Level Designer To Becoming A Design Lead

It’s not you, it’s your form

#4 Give certainty When designing a form, we should present users with all the information they need so they can navigate the form easily. Don’t keep them guessing or be ambiguous. The achievement of the goal should be clear and leave the user with the feeling that the task is (really) done. When examining the previous… Continue reading It’s not you, it’s your form

A Beginners Guide To Making Yourself Artificially Intelligent • (It’s A Lot Easier Than You Think)

If you are helping somebody, you are awaking somebody. A High-Level Overview Of The Design This is an awesome chance to begin to think about what you wear everyday. Sitting down, and analyzing what you like to wear allows you to refractor your personal source code that is written via the Python Script inside you. Let’s… Continue reading A Beginners Guide To Making Yourself Artificially Intelligent • (It’s A Lot Easier Than You Think)

the Pros and Cons — SitePoint

This article is part of a series created in partnership with SiteGround. Thank you for supporting the partners who make SitePoint possible. The range of hosting options has become bewilderingly complex during the past few years. The basics are simple: a computing device has software installed which can respond to a network event such as… Continue reading the Pros and Cons — SitePoint

the Pros and Cons — SitePoint

This article is part of a series created in partnership with SiteGround. Thank you for supporting the partners who make SitePoint possible. The range of hosting options has become bewilderingly complex during the past few years. The basics are simple: a computing device has software installed which can respond to a network event such as… Continue reading the Pros and Cons — SitePoint

Extending HTML by Creating Custom Tags

In this tutorial I will show you how easy it is to extend the HTML language with custom tags. The custom tags can be used to implement various behaviors, so they are a very convenient way to write less code and keep your HTML documents simpler. What Is a Custom HTML Tag? With HTML you… Continue reading Extending HTML by Creating Custom Tags

The FAQs that got me more UX interviews (and ultimately my dream job)

At the top of my FAQs I added links to my email, portfolio, Medium, and LinkedIn for convenience. What does design mean to you? Design is strategic problem solving that improves people’s lives. Empathy, pragmatism and creativity are applied to the adventure of hunting and validating ideas — a process that leads to intentional solutions. The results are… Continue reading The FAQs that got me more UX interviews (and ultimately my dream job)

Getting traction for experience design

Back in the eighties the job of design was to make things work reasonably. Technologies were in such a struggle to stay stable that any extra quality seemed unnecessary. In those times your computer would crash five times a day. So, worrying about beauty or engagement seemed like a somewhat unnecessary luxury. Fast-forwarding to 2007.… Continue reading Getting traction for experience design

Top 8 Magento Resources to Sharpen your Skills

Magento is currently among the top E-Commerce platforms out there and is being used actively by the largest retailers on the internet due to the many benefits it provides. Not only does it serve as a highly versatile, E-Commerce system, it is relatively simple to understand with an abundance of resources available for that purpose.… Continue reading Top 8 Magento Resources to Sharpen your Skills

How to Draw Bar Charts Using JavaScript and HTML5 Canvas

In an earlier tutorial we covered how to draw a pie chart or doughnut chart using HTML5 canvas. In this tutorial I will show you how to use JavaScript and the HTML5 canvas as a means to graphically display data by using bar charts. There are easier ways to create charts than coding one from… Continue reading How to Draw Bar Charts Using JavaScript and HTML5 Canvas

5 Web Design Trends for 2017 and 2018

March 29, 2017 by abovepop Now that we’re comfortably in 2017, we can look back at the last few months to see how our “trends of 2017” predictions have turned out, and offer a few more to consider for 2018 and the rest of the year. Clean Layouts That Let Content Shine There was a… Continue reading 5 Web Design Trends for 2017 and 2018

Designing Charts — Principles Every Designer Should Know

Use real data in your chart mock ups Designers have a tendency to create the most beautiful version of a chart possible without any regard to the real data that it needs to handle when it’s actually implemented. This can cause endless headaches for the developers trying to build this thing you designed, and even more… Continue reading Designing Charts — Principles Every Designer Should Know

Key Web Development and Design Skills You Should Learn In 2017

In addition to building your client contact list this year, you should be thinking of upgrading your knowledge base in critical areas, especially as competition in the digital economy gets stiffer and opens up wider opportunities for highly skilled web developers and designers. What exactly should you focus on when expanding your web development skills-set… Continue reading Key Web Development and Design Skills You Should Learn In 2017

Streetlayer – Free Address Validation & Autocomplete API

Posted · Category: License Free, Tools Obtaining international addresses from clients and customers just got a whole lot easier. Streetlayer offers a seamless address data processing add-on. The JSON API helps to analyze, validate, and format international addresses immediately upon entering the system. The primary benefit is that you get higher quality data sets. The… Continue reading Streetlayer – Free Address Validation & Autocomplete API

Purchasing an APM for Your Business: Are Your Stuck?

For any application technology to succeed, it has to provide the end-users with the quality experience. What APM (Application Performance Monitoring/Management) does is to ensure that the application program that you develop performs optimally as expected. It could be that you have disappointed your customers for so long with frequent crashes of your apps and… Continue reading Purchasing an APM for Your Business: Are Your Stuck?

Singer – Simple, Composable, Open Source ETL

Posted · Category: Framework Singer is an open-source standard for writing scripts that move data. It describes how data extraction scripts—called “Taps” —and data loading scripts—called “Targets”— should communicate, allowing them to be used in any combination to move data from any source to any destination. Send data between databases, web APIs, files, queues, and… Continue reading Singer – Simple, Composable, Open Source ETL

6 SEO Must-Haves for Web Designers & Developers

February 24, 2017 by Veronika The design and development work on a website doesn’t end with setting it live. Having a clean, W3C-validated code and an eye-catching design will surely help you get on the railroad to success. Yet, if you’re looking into building a website that truly stands out from the rest and provides… Continue reading 6 SEO Must-Haves for Web Designers & Developers

27 Web and Interactive Websites for Inspiration

Beautiful and creative web-interactive websites roundup for inspiration. In this website showcase we are gathered Business & Corporate, Promotional, Web & Interactive websites, created with modern technologies HTML5 and CSS3, jQuery and fully Responsive Design websites. Web/Interactive web design engage students and professionals by providing information and resources along with practice, simulations, and other learning activities. We saw some… Continue reading 27 Web and Interactive Websites for Inspiration

You can plan design sprints, but you can’t plan “insights” or “innovation”

Image via unsplash @firmbee The best stories tumble out of a customer’s mind when you are walking them out after an interview. When they are relaxed. When they have had time to introspect. When they don’t have to please you anymore. They come when you meander on to an unrelated topic. They come when people are… Continue reading You can plan design sprints, but you can’t plan “insights” or “innovation”

JSON-Server as a Fake REST API in Frontend Development

Introduction Frontend development is changing day by day and we have to learn a lot more stuff. When we start learning a new framework or library, the first thing that is recommended to build a todo list which helps in doing all CRUD functions. But there is no solid backend/library available to make use of… Continue reading JSON-Server as a Fake REST API in Frontend Development

UI Interactions of the week #60

via Muzli design inspiration .gesaffelstein by Alexandre Koghuashvili e-сommerce сart by Yarik Zinkof Travel by kihoo♘ #16 Dashboard Navigation by Yaroslav Zubko Student Planner App by Cleveroad APPLE- TV Programs Listings — SET ALARM by Johny vino™ Grid — Designer of the Month Interaction by Vivek Ravin Flight Booking Concept by Eleken. Onboarding- Gender morphing by Johny vino™ Nespresso — Capsule Animation by Steve Fraschini Welcome to the… Continue reading UI Interactions of the week #60

65 Proven E-commerce Consumer Behavior Statistics

February 2, 2017 by Noemi Twigg While the exact number of e-commerce stores cannot be pinpointed, based on data from the major platforms, it is safe to say that there are around several hundred thousands in the United States and anywhere from 12 to 14 million worldwide. In terms of online shoppers, Statista counts 1.61 billion (worldwide)… Continue reading 65 Proven E-commerce Consumer Behavior Statistics