Key takeaways đź’ˇ In-person research allows UX designers to observe micro-gestures, facial expressions, and behaviors that remote methods might miss. 🔍 While face-to-face studies provide rich data, they require higher budgets, careful scheduling, and logistical planning. 🍯 Use in-person research for tasks requiring physical interaction, observing detailed non-verbal cues, or testing early prototypes. 🔦 Clear… Continue reading In-Person Research: Is It Worth the Effort?
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Best Figma User and Usability Testing Plugin
Key Takeaways 👉 UXtweak seamlessly connects with Figma, making it easy to start testing your prototypes without complicated setup. 👉 The plugin provides in-depth analytics, including statistics, heat maps, and funnels, to help you understand user behavior. 👉 UXtweak offers access to a reliable pool of testers, ensuring dependable feedback from your respondents. 👉 The… Continue reading Best Figma User and Usability Testing Plugin
Prepare, shelve, reveal (don’t push) — an in-house product design tip
[unable to retrieve full-text content] Have you ever tried to raise a concern about a usability issue, only to be met with a silent nod? — a question for in-house product… Continue reading on UX Planet »
The Ultimate Collection of Best Logo Mockups
Imagine your company’s logo is like a handshake. It’s one of the first things people see, so you want it to look good! A logo mockup is like a photo booth for your logo. It shows what your logo would look like on things in the real world, like business cards, t-shirts, or websites. Your… Continue reading The Ultimate Collection of Best Logo Mockups
Women in UX: Susan Kare
[unable to retrieve full-text content] Susan Kare rendered in the Macintosh rainbow by Daley Wilhelm Why women in UX? Ready for an utterly shocking statement? Prepare thyself: women are underrepresented in the tech sector. Oh… you already knew? I should have accounted for the fact that this is a well-documented phenomenon, the Pew Research Center reported that… Continue reading Women in UX: Susan Kare
4 Tips to Successfully Manage Your Remote Design Team in 2020
Managing remote design teams presents most designers with a different work environment, one that shares similar workplace challenges with a traditional workplace setting. When working with a team you rarely meet in real life, how do you continue staying productive, maintaining quality, and delivering client projects on time? And how do you ease tensions that… Continue reading 4 Tips to Successfully Manage Your Remote Design Team in 2020
How to Conduct a UX Card Sorting Workshop
The act of card sorting is a hands-on and quick way of creating a category tree (information architecture) based on users’ understanding of the topics of a product. The simple idea of the workshop is to ask users to organise cards that already contain written content into groups. In this tutorial you will learn how… Continue reading How to Conduct a UX Card Sorting Workshop
How to Create a Dusty Texture From Scratch
What You’ll Be Creating In this tutorial, we’ll create a dusty overlay texture from scanned paper, and I will show you how to apply this texture to your image. I created Dusty Textures Pack the same way for my GraphicRiver portfolio. Tutorial Assets A sheet of craft paper or any other paper with a similar structure. A scanner… Continue reading How to Create a Dusty Texture From Scratch
Pre-Built Websites: 5 Productivity Tips for Freelance Web Designers
If you’re a long-time freelance web designer, you may be experiencing a rather common problem. As freelance web designers gain experience, they naturally become more proficient. This generally leads to attracting more clients, and results in taking on more work. Freelancers have obvious benefits. Like not having to work to someone else’ schedule, not having a… Continue reading Pre-Built Websites: 5 Productivity Tips for Freelance Web Designers
Using Subversion to Check Out WordPress
There are a lot of reasons to enjoy following open-source software, one of which is the ability to learn from the code that others have built. Other examples include: following along with bug tickets seeing new features merged into the code base learning how to achieve something programmatically viewing the deprecation of an old feature… Continue reading Using Subversion to Check Out WordPress
How to Prepare a Cool 3D Card for Post-Print Effects
What You’ll Be Creating In this tutorial you’ll learn how to create a laser-cut pop up card, perfect for showcasing retail offers or adapting for events. We’ll break down into simple steps some of the essential techniques for preparing your artwork for post-print processes, including laser-cutting and accommodating for folds. Suitable for beginner-to-intermediate users of… Continue reading How to Prepare a Cool 3D Card for Post-Print Effects
Weekly Inspiration: Scrollin’, Scrollin’, Scrollin’
Web browsers all have one thing in common: almost without exception they allow us to scroll through content. Scrolling gets us from the top of a document, to the bottom. But it allows much more than that–and for better or worse, web designers have been challenging the scrollbar for some time now, seeing how else… Continue reading Weekly Inspiration: Scrollin’, Scrollin’, Scrollin’
Geometric Design: How to Draw a Flowery Tiling Pattern
What You’ll Be Creating This Islamic tiling pattern is atypical in its use of curves, as most of the traditional designs are made up solely of straight lines (even though circles are used extensively to create the underlying grids). It is based on the seven-circle grid which we learned to draw in more detail in… Continue reading Geometric Design: How to Draw a Flowery Tiling Pattern
A Collection Of Useful Photoshop Typography Tutorials
Type art is popular at the moment for all sorts of reasons – and it’s a highly versatile skill to have. You can use illustrated lettering in projects ranging from posters to brochures – making it a great technique to add to your creative toolset. But beware: type art is so popular at the moment… Continue reading A Collection Of Useful Photoshop Typography Tutorials
Prepare Your Website for Christmas – Free WordPress Christmas Plugins
Now that December has arrived we can start getting prepared for Christmas time, we have been buying our presents and our decorations will be going up later this week in our house. What if you wish to decorate your WordPress site for Christmas ? There are a few reasons for doing so – if you… Continue reading Prepare Your Website for Christmas – Free WordPress Christmas Plugins