‘Hire’ this article if you’re struggling to understand your customer needs

There are zillions of words written about how customer centricity leads companies to success. However, the “customer-centric” term is sometimes misused as a catchall for customer feedback or customer satisfaction results, but making people happy is not enough. To have sustained success, companies must genuinely understand what the customer wants and needs, and implement the… Continue reading ‘Hire’ this article if you’re struggling to understand your customer needs

50 Remarkable Lettering and Typography Designs Of 2018 for Inspiration

Beautiful New Year 2018 hand-drawn lettering and digital typography designs created by professional artists and designers. All designs are amazing to send and share with your friends and wishing a Happy New Year. This showcase contains different artwork of calligraphy, new year quotes, handmade lettering, typography posters, brushes with bristle effects and watercolor style typo… Continue reading 50 Remarkable Lettering and Typography Designs Of 2018 for Inspiration

A Reflection on Product Design

Though all good products must function and provide a benefit to the end-user, I believe the magic of a truly inspiring or great product happens in the realm of user experience. As designer and writer Joshua Porter writes, “The experience is the product.” Spotify is one example of a great digital product, as it provides… Continue reading A Reflection on Product Design

When AI gets in the way of UX

Interest for “Artificial Intelligence” over the last 5 years, according to Google Trends. Artificial Intelligence is the big buzzword of today. If you are a digital designer, there are good chances that a quick scroll through your RSS reader, Twitter feed or Slack channels will show you more instances of the term “AI” than you would… Continue reading When AI gets in the way of UX

Get Started with iPhone’s Taptic Engine.

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.

Inter UI: A free font for highly legible text

Inter UI is a free font family designed by Rasmus Andersson for featuring an excellent readability on computer screens. Typeface comes in 4 weights (regular,  medium bold and black) and includes italic style. It works great for English-language text, and pretty well for other Latin and Cyrillic languages. Inter UI is very similar to Roboto for… Continue reading Inter UI: A free font for highly legible text

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

Interface: A typeface designed for user interfaces

Interface is a free font for highly legible text on computer screens. It started out in late 2016 as an experiment to build a perfectly pixel–fitting font at a specific small size (11px.) Interface font works great for English-language text, and pretty well for other Latin and Cyrillic languages. Feel free to download the latest release… Continue reading Interface: A typeface designed for user interfaces

You don’t need to know everything about UX

“You don’t need to know everything about UX”. I find myself saying this to other people quite often. You don’t need to be a specialist in all possible verticals within User Experience Design. And you probably can’t. A lot of people are starting in UX just now. The high level of attention our discipline has… Continue reading You don’t need to know everything about UX

Diversity is Punk Rock

I used to think “diversity” meant the need for the representation of a particular set of perspectives or cultures, i.e., “there are lot of men in this room, therefore we need women.” This idea prevented me from participating in the discourse in the past because I’ve never felt like I identify with any single community.… Continue reading Diversity is Punk Rock

Check Out These Free Stock Photos

FreePhotos.cc has an abundance of free, high-quality Creative Commons photos for you to select from for your websites or blog posts. This free stock photo resource saves you the time and trouble of having to visit various sites and comb through their inventories to find something you can use. Feel free to mention the photographer… Continue reading Check Out These Free Stock Photos

The Smartphone’s Stunning Design Evolution

Today, practically everyone has an advanced smartphone that can do amazing things for you. Smartphone designs, however, have changed greatly since they were first introduced in the mid-1990s. You’ll gain a bigger appreciation for your current smartphone after you consider how the design for these devices has evolved over the years. The Big Brick IBM built… Continue reading The Smartphone’s Stunning Design Evolution

Digital suffocation.

It’s dawned on me how incessant and intrusive phone notifications are. I may be realising this late. About two months ago I installed an app called 360 Security on my Android phone. One of the many functions it had was a ‘Notification Manager’. I switched it on and let it do it’s thing. A week… Continue reading Digital suffocation.