In today’s increasingly digital world, websites have become the backbone of businesses, organizations, and personal brands alike. They serve as a point of contact, a source of information, and often, a means to conduct transactions. However, with the rise in website usage comes the rise in cyber threats. Whether it’s a personal blog, an e-commerce… Continue reading Website Security Tips: Why It’s Important and How to Protect Your Site
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AI Features Must Solve Real User Problems
Summary: AI features must solve real problems, not be implemented for novelty. Unnecessary AI chatbots and features can harm rather than help users. Generative AI has been bringing plenty of change over the past two years. While it’s substantially changing what and how we design, some things stay the same. One important UX principle is… Continue reading AI Features Must Solve Real User Problems
15+ Free Stationery Mockups to Elevate Your Branding Presentations
In today’s highly competitive business environment, branding is essential for making a memorable impression. When presenting a brand to clients or stakeholders, one of the most powerful tools is a well-designed stationery mockup. Stationery mockups provide a realistic, cohesive look at how a brand’s design elements will appear on everyday office items, helping to communicate… Continue reading 15+ Free Stationery Mockups to Elevate Your Branding Presentations
The Importance of Shopify Web Maintenance for Your Online Store
A Shopify store is the epicenter of your business, especially in the dynamic eCommerce world. It is where customers browse, make purchases, and interact with your brand. Like any technology, a Shopify store requires routine care to function at its best. Here’s when Shopify Web Maintenance comes into the play. Without continuous maintenance, even the… Continue reading The Importance of Shopify Web Maintenance for Your Online Store
35+ Free Poster Mockups: Perfect for Showcasing Your Work
If you’re searching for free poster mockups to showcase your design projects, you’re in the right place. Free poster mockups are indispensable tools for designers, marketers, and creatives who want to present their work in a realistic and appealing way. These mockups allow you to display your designs as they would appear in the real… Continue reading 35+ Free Poster Mockups: Perfect for Showcasing Your Work
Web Design for E-Commerce: Crafting Seamless Shopping Experiences
In the competitive world of ecommerce business, effective web design is paramount. A well-designed e-commerce website can make the difference between a visitor making a purchase or abandoning their cart. This article delves into the essential elements of web design for e-commerce, highlighting how businesses can create visually appealing, user-friendly, and conversion-focused online stores. Why… Continue reading Web Design for E-Commerce: Crafting Seamless Shopping Experiences
Market Validation: Methods, Steps and Best Practices
Validating the market before fully launching a product minimizes the risk of investing time, money, and resources into something that may not be successful. Here, we have covered everything you need to do to conduct market validation successfully. Every amazing product idea becomes profitable when there’s equal demand in the market. If not,… Continue reading Market Validation: Methods, Steps and Best Practices
Exploring AR Design for Children
Lab Projects Nurturing Innovation Through Lab Projects At UX studio, our lab projects help our team flex their creative muscles and freely explore new ideas, methods and technologies. During lab projects, we work within the studio in a smaller team to achieve a specific goal we’ve set, or develop a product we’ve envisioned. The dedicated… Continue reading Exploring AR Design for Children
Key Metrics for Designers to Track in the Checkout
[unable to retrieve full-text content] Measuring checkout efficiency is crucial for every eCommerce website, as it directly impacts business success. In this article, I will share key metrics that help understand checkout performance and provide actionable insights, enabling designers to enhance the checkout process and optimize the user experience. Overall Checkout Completion Rate The overall… Continue reading Key Metrics for Designers to Track in the Checkout
2024’s Best Photoshop Actions
In today’s fast-paced world, efficiency is paramount for designers and photographers. Clients demand quick turnaround times and consistent quality, putting pressure on creative professionals to work smarter, not just harder. This is where Photoshop Actions come in – powerful tools that automate repetitive tasks, saving precious time and money. Unleash the efficiency of pre-made edits… Continue reading 2024’s Best Photoshop Actions
InsFollowPro Review: Boost Your Instagram with Real Followers, Likes, and Views
In the digital age, Instagram has become a vital platform for personal branding and business growth. Yet, building a strong Instagram presence can be a daunting task. Enter InsFollowPro, an Instagram growth service designed to boost your Instagram with real followers, likes, and views. This article provides an in-depth review of InsFollowPro, exploring its features,… Continue reading InsFollowPro Review: Boost Your Instagram with Real Followers, Likes, and Views
Moderated research with dscout
Moderated research helps gather qualitative feedback directly from users. dscout, a research platform, simplifies this process with tools for participant recruitment, live video interviews, and automated data transcription and analysis. This article explores how dscout’s features support moderated user research and compares its effectiveness to other research tool. TABLE OF CONTENTS Does dscout… Continue reading Moderated research with dscout
The 4 Stages of AI Image Generation: An Experience Map
Summary: AI image generation users often follow a similar creative process: ideate, generate, refine, and export. Understanding how expert users use AI tools in the process of image generation can help designers and other beginner users get better at using these tools for their projects; it can also inform the future design of such tools.… Continue reading The 4 Stages of AI Image Generation: An Experience Map
The Power of Checkout Campaign Management
[unable to retrieve full-text content] When it comes to checkout pages, the most frequently cited word is conversion. After all, the main criteria for a successful checkout is its efficiency in terms of successful payments. Conversion can be viewed from many angles, including technical performance and client experience. Still, there are other less obvious components… Continue reading The Power of Checkout Campaign Management
Designer engagement report
[unable to retrieve full-text content] Top 3 problems for designers: no research, no design strategy, and no career progression Image by Matej Latin (Author) It’s been a horrible year for design. Mass layoffs from 2023 continued and got even worse. AI is threatening to take creatives’ jobs, designers need to go through up to 11 rounds… Continue reading Designer engagement report
The rise of Generative AI-driven design patterns
[unable to retrieve full-text content] How Generative AI advances are helping shape the future of feature design, from enhancing content interaction to more informed decision-making Order among chaos (Credit: Dall-E) The ChatGPT revolution has been unfolding for over a year now. While the specific chatbot may not represent a seismic technical shift, the profound change in… Continue reading The rise of Generative AI-driven design patterns
AI UX-Design Tools Are Not Ready for Primetime: Status Update
Summary: Our research and evaluation shows that there are currently few design-specific AI tools that meaningfully enhance UX design workflows. AI tools won’t be replacing UX designers any time soon. Currently available LLM-based tools are not shortcutting steps in the design process just yet. Our Study There’s so much marketing hype around AI that it’s… Continue reading AI UX-Design Tools Are Not Ready for Primetime: Status Update
Best AI Design Tools: Insights & Tips From 50+ Tools
Impact of AI in design When it comes to design, AI has great creative capacity, given its text generation and text-to-image capabilities. Seeing some photorealistic images generated by AI, we cannot help but wonder what this means for us as designers. Some of the questions that were on our minds: How can we use this… Continue reading Best AI Design Tools: Insights & Tips From 50+ Tools
Company culture is more than just office perks
How product culture and company culture are intrinsically related. Image by Creative Lab @ scop.io “Company culture is the backbone of any successful organization.”—Gary Vaynerchuk A goal is something to aim at Company culture is a powerful hiring magnet and a common discussion topic both in- and outside of companies. It starts with providing good environment and… Continue reading Company culture is more than just office perks
Designing genAI-enhanced features
Elevating user experience through intelligent content enhancement and personalization. Futuristic workspace (Created with Dall-E) Chatbots serve as an accessible gateway to the realm of Generative AI features, a fact underscored by the success of ChatGPT. Their simplicity, requiring only basic instructions to engage in natural dialogues, allows them to integrate across various digital platforms seamlessly. Yet,… Continue reading Designing genAI-enhanced features
7 Ways Inclusion Can Impact Productivity and Creativity
Did you know that inclusion can impact your team’s productivity and creativity? Let’s go over some data-driven facts about inclusion in the workplace. Discover how it can positively impact your business! Promoting an inclusive work environment can allow employees to thrive. Image source: Envato Elements Generating an inclusive work environment can allow everyone to thrive.… Continue reading 7 Ways Inclusion Can Impact Productivity and Creativity
Norman Doors: how do we still get this wrong?
The confusing design of Cybertruck’s doors. Tesla Cybertruck The concept of the “Norman door” is a well-known and widely recognized principle among designers. Named after design guru Don Norman, it describes any door that proves confusing or difficult to use, highlighting a common design flaw. In this article, we will discuss the application of the… Continue reading Norman Doors: how do we still get this wrong?
The extended designer, and the design machine
The Extended Designer spends less time making products, and more time making progress. The Extended Designer spends less time making products, and more time making progress. 2023 has been Generative AI’s breakout year, but that has been greeted by some fairly mixed responses, particularly from Designers. As the terrain we all live on reconfigures around… Continue reading The extended designer, and the design machine
Designing safe and trustworthy AI systems
Designing for safe and trustworthy AI Why human oversight to make up for AI errors doesn’t work and what we can do instead Illustration created by Cara Storath in Midjourney As much as AI is powerful, in some cases it can be misleading or wrong. A realization that came too late to a New York lawyer,… Continue reading Designing safe and trustworthy AI systems