Photo: Drew Coffman I have been blogging for more than 10 years now. (Funny how “blogging” used as a verb sounds a bit off these days) It all started back in the day when I was working as an Information Architect (yep, “UX” is a relatively new term) at the biggest digital agency in Brazil. At… Continue reading A few things I have learned after 10 years writing about UX
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Top 4 Mistakes To Avoid While Developing An App
Mobile app developers always seek for new ways and means to deliver great and unique mobile software. Everyone is eager to learn how to create a top-selling mobile app that will wow the users just off the bat and as a result achieve immediate success in the field of the app development. Of course, there… Continue reading Top 4 Mistakes To Avoid While Developing An App
An Overview of JavaScript Promises
This tutorial covers the basics of JavaScript promises, showing how you can leverage them in your JavaScript development. The concept of promises is not new to web development. Many of us have already used promises in the form of libraries such as Q, when.js, RSVP.js, etc. Even jQuery has something called a Deferred object, which… Continue reading An Overview of JavaScript Promises
How to Make Your Own Easy Button Logo with Adobe Illustrator
This Adobe Illustrator tutorial will teach you how to make your own button logo using pre-generate gloss and chrome effects. With this tutorial, you will learn a quick and easy method to design logos and other web graphics using arcing gradients and shapes. Step 1 – Button surface First, we will want to create the… Continue reading How to Make Your Own Easy Button Logo with Adobe Illustrator
Photography Training Course For Improving Photography Skills
Capturing stunning images of impressive landscapes and attractive portraits is a popular pastime as well as a serious occupation for numerous people. Maneuvering the camera is a skill that can be learned only from experts in the field. If you are interested in a career in photography or just want to enhance your dexterity as… Continue reading Photography Training Course For Improving Photography Skills
Database and API ― Scotch
To get paid for goods and services provided, companies/freelancers need to send invoices to their customers informing them of the services that they will be charged for. Back then, people had paper invoices which they gave to the customers when they contact them for their services. Right now, with the advent and advancement of technology,… Continue reading Database and API ― Scotch
4 tips to take your school design projects to the next level
Courtesy of Green Chameleon from unsplash.com. Having attended public portfolio review events as well as getting a good dose of portfolio critique myself, I’ve noticed a few patterns in feedback — particularly about projects coming from school and bootcamps. While I haven’t attended a UX design bootcamp or gone back for a Master’s degree (yet), I’ve jotted… Continue reading 4 tips to take your school design projects to the next level
How to Optimize Node Requests with Simple Caching Strategies ― Scotch
One of the things that affect how users interact with our applications is its speed. Even though some users generally have a poor connection, they are expecting some minimum level of speed when using the application. To give our users a seamless experience, we are going to consider the possibility of optimizing our requests in… Continue reading How to Optimize Node Requests with Simple Caching Strategies ― Scotch
Design Conferences are broken, but we can fix them
I just got back from a design conference. It was just one in a sea of poorly-designed design conferences I’ve attended over the years. I wont beat around the proverbial bush. Here are 3 easy ways for organizers to step up their game and put on an impactful, memorable, and successful design conference. Speakers are… Continue reading Design Conferences are broken, but we can fix them
Wholesale Area Plugins for WooCommerce: The Definitive Guide
If you sell goods online to the wholesale market, you’ll know that there’s a whole world of choice out there when it comes to organizing and presenting your store. Some of the decisions are the same for any e-commerce website. There are so many e-commerce plugins to choose from that it can sometimes be a… Continue reading Wholesale Area Plugins for WooCommerce: The Definitive Guide
Encouraging healthy lifestyle choices with an engaging user experience
Please note: This was a concept project undertaken as part of the User Experience Design Immersive course at General Assembly and is in no way affiliated with Nuffield Health. Nuffield Health is one of the UK’s leading not-for-profit healthcare organisations. They operate a wide variety of facilities and healthcare services, from gym and fitness centres… Continue reading Encouraging healthy lifestyle choices with an engaging user experience
5 Things Beginner Mobile Game Developers Must Know
For game developers, the dream is to create the next big hit, the Tetris of our generation. Since Tetris became a huge hit, there have been many spinoffs. It is interesting to note that the games we love the most aren’t very complicated. Just have a look at a puzzle game like Cube Blast. All… Continue reading 5 Things Beginner Mobile Game Developers Must Know
Cross-functional Empathy for Designers
A human-centric approach for working with humans As designers, a huge part of our job lies in empathizing with users. It’s exciting to see how far we’ve come as a discipline in becoming more user-centric, more research-driven and better at tying our ideas to actual user needs. Yet many of us struggle with applying that… Continue reading Cross-functional Empathy for Designers
Getting Started with Chrome Developer Tools: Inspect Element
Google Chrome is one of the best consumer browsers on the market, but it also contains a number of powerful developer tools. We can reveal some of these tools with Chrome’s Inspect Element (or “Inspect”) tool. This developer tool provides insight into how websites are constructed and styled, and it can help you debug your own… Continue reading Getting Started with Chrome Developer Tools: Inspect Element
Stop blaming your digital tools for your problems
Jira, Trello, Basecamp, Sketch, Invision, Zeplin, Jenkins, Google Analytics — I could go on, but no matter the tool or how good it is there will always be a problem with it. Your tools are not the problem, your reliance and attitude towards them is. I’ve seen so many teams complain that “Jira doesn’t let me do this”… Continue reading Stop blaming your digital tools for your problems
How to Find and Hire The Perfect Freelance Logo Designer for Your Business
It’s not always easy to find the ideal freelancer for your business. It’s especially hard when we’re talking about design, such as when you’re looking for a logo designer. In this article, you’ll find out how to not just find and approach freelance logo designers but also hire and make them part of your team.… Continue reading How to Find and Hire The Perfect Freelance Logo Designer for Your Business
The Powerful JavaScript Debugger You Never Knew You Had
February 26, 2018 by Alex Fox When you were first starting to write JavaScript, you learned about console.log. You learned about outputting messages to the console and using it to troubleshoot your JavaScript. And unless you’re a fairly serious JavaScript developer, you might not have bothered with much more. When JavaScript apps don’t work correctly,… Continue reading The Powerful JavaScript Debugger You Never Knew You Had
Five analytical components for a better user experience
User Behaviour Whatever someone does while on your website is called user behaviour. It includes the journey within your website’s pages, interaction with page elements, page scroll, form submissions, link/button clicks, and others. Analytics will help you understand the user behavior of your website better. How far are they scrolling down the page? Which forms… Continue reading Five analytical components for a better user experience
Analysing Usability Testing Data
Gathering feedback from your users is a crucial part of any design process. The way in which you can gather this feedback varies depending on what kind of questions you are trying to answer, the resources you have available for user research and what stage of the product life cycle you are currently in. Qualitative… Continue reading Analysing Usability Testing Data
How To Transform Your Retail App Idea Into Reality
With changing consumer behaviour and preferences over past few years, the retailers are finding it a bit challenging to keep up with the demands and expectations of shoppers in 2018. Each retailer is vying with the others to provide the best shopping experience to their customers. In times like these, mobile apps have become one… Continue reading How To Transform Your Retail App Idea Into Reality
How to turn user journeys into high-end highways
Photo by Karsten Würth on Unsplash When we need to get from point A to point B, we usually choose from several roads. And let any of them somehow lead us to the destination point, most likely we will get different impressions from this trip. Similarly, when we need to get any online service, we choose… Continue reading How to turn user journeys into high-end highways
Ancient Districts: 1-Week UX Design Challenge
Ancient Districts iOS App Project Brief I was asked to do a 1-week design challenge to create a mobile app that allows users such as tourists, school kids, parents etc., to view historical sites around Dubai and learn more about them. Although it was a challenge to work on this project while working full-time and with… Continue reading Ancient Districts: 1-Week UX Design Challenge
Will the WordPress Gutenberg Editor Make Content Creation Better?
January 30, 2018 by Christopher Jan Benitez As always, WordPress is still on the run to provide better services to millions of its users. With the goal to make adding content enjoyable and straightforward, WordPress created Gutenberg Editor. Though still in the beta and testing phase, Gutenberg Editor indeed is to watch out for in… Continue reading Will the WordPress Gutenberg Editor Make Content Creation Better?
How To Use Google’s Material Design On Your Own Site
January 29, 2018 by Alex Fox Google Material Design is a major part of the modern web’s design language. This is especially true for mobile websites and apps. It’s a clean, legible design with visually distinct elements to draw the eye and make user interaction simple. Material design apps, by and large, use flat, paper-based… Continue reading How To Use Google’s Material Design On Your Own Site