1. Salaries will either increase or decrease, but likely not remain exactly the same With the volatility of our world, who’s to say where salaries will go? 2017 similarly saw salaries go in a direction. 2018 will either see an increase or decrease. This will depend on economies, how many salary negotiation blogs we read, and… Continue reading 9 ½ Plausible and/or Absurd UX Industry Predictions for 2018
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Canny Edge Detector Using Python
Edge detection is an essential image analysis technique when someone is interested in recognizing objects by their outlines, and it’s also considered an essential step in recovering information from images. For instance, edge detection can extract important features like lines and curves, which are then normally used by higher-level computer vision or image-processing algorithms. A… Continue reading Canny Edge Detector Using Python
Goal-based Sketching for UX design
Sketching and doodling can be fun, relaxing and has the power to expand your thinking. However when trying to solve problems, sketching can also distract your process. As a User Experience designer, I have found setting constraints like a timer or a whiteboard super helpful in putting pressure on the ideas being explored. Sketching up… Continue reading Goal-based Sketching for UX design
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
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
5 Tools You Need to Give Your Web Design Business a Boost
September 28, 2017 by Spyrestudios Blogger Part of the reason many young entrepreneurs are starting their own web design companies in today’s business climate is that there are so many cost-effective and easy-to-use support tools available. If you’re in the midst of launching or growing your own business, it can be helpful to know which… Continue reading 5 Tools You Need to Give Your Web Design Business a Boost
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
What is a landing page and what purpose does it serve?
So, let’s start off at the beginning! What is a landing page and what purpose does it serve? Well, in brief, it’s the first port of call after a consumer click through on a link, or ad for the product or service they are searching. This is your big chance, that opportunity you have been… Continue reading What is a landing page and what purpose does it serve?
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
On Being Humble, Creative, and Independent
On Being Humble Be modest. Your accomplishments to date have brought you this far, but don’t depend on it to bring you any further. That design competition you won, painting sold to a museum exhibition, or local media sensation? Cheers to having your hard work rewarded. Keep it up. Your accomplishments in the future starts with… Continue reading On Being Humble, Creative, and Independent
4 Metrics You Should Look At To Measure Website Success
Now that you have a well-designed website that is easy on your reader’s eye and simple to navigate, you still need to determine whether it is truly successful. To do this, you have to dive into data and analytics. Of course, measuring your site’s success is not all about pretty colors, textures and fonts. Google… Continue reading 4 Metrics You Should Look At To Measure Website Success
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
How AI Is Interfacing with Web Design Today
The internet has undergone a lot of changes over the last few decades. In the early days, the complexity of web design was more about the technologies available and had nothing to do with fonts, typography variations, robust visual content representation, rich media and all other elements of modern web design. Today, however, such complex… Continue reading How AI Is Interfacing with Web Design Today
Sketch Gists — Useful snippets for plugin development
Last week I was developing an internal tool to create a design workflow for my workplace. The process involved creating a style guide for a new project by setting up the branding colours, typefaces, shadows and scrim. All went well until it was required to convert the text layers into symbols so as to generalise… Continue reading Sketch Gists — Useful snippets for plugin development
Key Logo Design Elements That Resonate Your Brand
On having a glance at what went before, one will notice that even retrospectively, an artisan who was bothered about his ability and trade would have always left some kind of a mark on its artifact, to distinguish it from others. In order to make people aware that these are the items that has been… Continue reading Key Logo Design Elements That Resonate Your Brand
Don’t have a Mobile Friendly Site yet? You will need one!
In the mobile world that we live in, by next year, it is expected that as much as 80% of all internet traffic will be mobile. So anything from a dating site to an online pet store will need to be mobile friendly and so, it is now more important than ever before. While desktop… Continue reading Don’t have a Mobile Friendly Site yet? You will need one!
How to Use Sequel Pro to Manage MySQL Databases on macOS — SitePoint
This article is part of a series created in partnership with SiteGround. Thank you for supporting the partners who make SitePoint possible. Many developers who use MySQL for their databases may be pros at managing MySQL databases from the command line, but others really need a visual tool, something with a graphical interface, to use… Continue reading How to Use Sequel Pro to Manage MySQL Databases on macOS — SitePoint
How to Create a Split-Screen Slider With JavaScript
In today’s video tutorial I’m going to show you how to create a “split-screen” slider element (or UI, whatever you prefer to call it) using JavaScript. Inspiration for this came from a page on the Corsair website; let’s see how we can build one for our own projects. What We’re Going to Build Let’s first… Continue reading How to Create a Split-Screen Slider With JavaScript
Aol – One Of The Boldest Logo Rebranding Cases Ever
The history of Aol branding is a story of bold decisions and risky moves. It shows how much can be achieved when you have the audacity to push the boundaries of design. It also shows that extraordinary problems require extraordinary solutions. How loss of clients creates necessity for bold actions The online environment has changed… Continue reading Aol – One Of The Boldest Logo Rebranding Cases Ever
The New Skeuomorphism is in Your Voice Assistant
Google Home and Amazon Echo Yay, we killed Skeuomorphism! Not too long ago humanity left behind its skeuomorphic interfaces. Skeuomorphism meant using references to real world surface textures on visual interfaces to enhance their comprehensibility. We stripped our visual interfaces off their ornamentations to allow a more authentic approach to visual aesthetics. Killing skeuomorphism made us… Continue reading The New Skeuomorphism is in Your Voice Assistant
How to Use Style Sheets in Adobe InDesign
Designers are always divided on which tech or software to use. There is no single piece of software that can do it all. They’re all better in some areas and less strong in others. Many designers end up using the software that they started out with because it is quick and simple for them to… Continue reading How to Use Style Sheets in Adobe InDesign
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
Build a successful creative portfolio with Allyou
Every creative needs a good portfolio. Whether you’re focussed on typography or photography, layout or user experience, your portfolio is what defines you professionally. As with most things, the quality of your portfolio is determined by the appropriateness of the tools you use. All too often we see great work, presented poorly, because the designer… Continue reading Build a successful creative portfolio with Allyou