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Rippplr

I am still recoiling from the loads of information and knowledge sharing that happened during IxD14 last week. You guys should follow #1xd14 on twitter and catch up on the videos at Vimeo channel. During the conference, I conducted a workshop at the HKU on “Playful Thinking”. To give you a short introduction, ‘Playful Thinking’… Continue reading Rippplr

How To Design Clean and Elegant Looking Websites

While a simple, clean website design might seem easy at first, the fact of the matter is the process is a lot more complex than you think. There’s a lot of stuff going on underneath the surface that makes the clean website functional. Most people don’t need or care about that makes these sites function,… Continue reading How To Design Clean and Elegant Looking Websites

12 Ways to Design the Perfect Site Navigation

Header navigation menus can often be overlooked when it comes to inventive and creative web design. But as the primary way users explore and interact with your website, investing in engaging header navigation means site visitors spend more time on your site and end up seeing much more than just your landing page. There’s no… Continue reading 12 Ways to Design the Perfect Site Navigation

How To Make Your Websites Look and Feel Original

There are hundreds of millions of websites active on the web. It can be hard to imagine how a single lonely website or brand can hope to make an impact. Decent inbound marketing can be help, and Search Engine Optimization can certainly play a role, but none of these efforts will help you get visitors… Continue reading How To Make Your Websites Look and Feel Original

The Perfect Product Label

When trying to create the perfect product label, there are certain fundamental steps you must adhere to in order to reach the right design. Labels for products have to convey a lot of information while also appealing to customers and standing out from the competition so going through the right process to get the perfect… Continue reading The Perfect Product Label

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 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)

A Beginner’s Course on Blogging for Lawyers

There are few things about the legal field that are easy or simple. Potential lawyers need almost a decade’s worth of education just to become qualified, but then they still need to pass one of the more grueling, challenging exams in the professional world to begin practicing. Then there will be more years of learning… Continue reading A Beginner’s Course on Blogging for Lawyers

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 Optimize the Design and Location of the Search Bar

The search bar is one of the most useful features on your website. It can help visitors find exactly what they’re looking for with just a few key presses. On a typical ecommerce website, search users convert at a rate 3.5x higher than those that don’t interact with search, so it makes sense to use… Continue reading How to Optimize the Design and Location of the Search Bar

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?

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 6 Elements of an Effective Logo

The signature of your company, a strong logo has the power to make people think your name without actually seeing the words. It’s your symbol, and as such it should immediately telegraph what you stand for in the minds of your customers. This is why it’s important to consider the attributes of your primary customer… Continue reading The 6 Elements of an Effective Logo

Colour Ideology Behind Web Design

Using the right colours in web design is absolutely vital. Web designers can’t just go out and put together a website for a client based on the colours they like using or like the look of, they have to be right for the project, thought has to go into the selection process. You could say… Continue reading Colour Ideology Behind Web Design

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

Processing Incoming Request Data in Flask ― Scotch

In any web app, you’ll have to process incoming request data from users. Flask, like any other web framework, allows you to access the request data easily. In this tutorial, we’ll go through how to process incoming data for the most common use cases. The forms of incoming data we’ll cover are: query strings, form… Continue reading Processing Incoming Request Data in Flask ― Scotch

Why You Should Seriously Consider Outsourcing Web Development

Smart outsourcing is key to the success of most businesses today. The company contracts external professionals to carry out its often non-strategic functions to focus its resources towards more strategic matters. You can have your accounting functions outsourced or your recruitment taken care of by a professional HR agency, or can outsource web development to… Continue reading Why You Should Seriously Consider Outsourcing Web Development

5 One-Page Web Design Templates for Businesses and Brands

September 8, 2017 by Zac Johnson Have you ever wanted to create a website for your brand or agency, but didn’t know how to get started? For most people, WordPress might seem like the best solution around. After all, it’s free to use and powers a great majority of sites on the internet today. However,… Continue reading 5 One-Page Web Design Templates for Businesses and Brands

4 Considerations for Choosing a Web Host

Managing and maintaining a successful small business website is a full-time job. There are countless elements to manage, hundreds of things to consider and thousands of new things to learn to improve the efficiency of the site. Whether you need to learn about vector artwork, find out how to reduce bounce rates or decide how… Continue reading 4 Considerations for Choosing a Web Host

A Little Help – Developing A Tutorial-Driven Website

September 1, 2017 by Spyrestudios Blogger It’s harder and harder to carve out a profitable niche among the millions of sites populating the web today, but one option that has stood the test of time is the tutorial website. Based on a constantly evolving knowledge base, innovative presentation styles, and overall profitability, tutorial websites may… Continue reading A Little Help – Developing A Tutorial-Driven Website

How Gaming Sites Can Improve Their Design

The better designed the website and the better the usability, the more likely people will come back to use it  – and the more views, the more conversions and the better the website performs. Gaming websites need to be at the very height of attractive web design, especially in such a saturated sector. The look… Continue reading How Gaming Sites Can Improve Their Design

7 Minimalist Realtor and Rental Property Site Designs

August 23, 2017 by Zac Johnson There is nothing simple or minimal about the concept of selling real estate or renting out apartments. It’s one of the most lucrative and competitive businesses in the world today. However, when it comes to selling and marketing such services online, a minimalist design and approach have proven to… Continue reading 7 Minimalist Realtor and Rental Property Site Designs

Microcopy Tips to Improve Your Site’s UX

Microcopy is a fundamental part of your site’s UX. Let’s check out some microcopy tips for a better user experience. What is microcopy? Microcopy is made up of the tiny snippets of text scattered around your website. It can include things like button texts, form labels, interaction prompts, tool tips and even error messages. As… Continue reading Microcopy Tips to Improve Your Site’s UX