Summary: Despite improvements in narrow-scope AI design tools, most design-specific AI cannot replicate human designers’ output quality. This is a follow-up to the 2024 article AI UX-Design Tools Are Not Ready for Primetime: Status Update. In April 2024, AI-powered design tools were not useful to designers. As of May 2025, their usefulness has improved, but we’re… Continue reading AI Design Tools Are Marginally Better: Status Update
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Developing WP Theme With Interactive Features
In the world of WordPress (WP) theme development, interactivity and functionality are at the heart of a modern, engaging user experience. Today’s web users expect responsive designs, seamless animations, and real-time feedback from the websites they visit. Achieving these interactive elements in WordPress themes requires a solid understanding of front-end development—particularly JavaScript—alongside WordPress’s PHP-based structure.… Continue reading Developing WP Theme With Interactive Features
Figma AI Tools
[unable to retrieve full-text content] In this article, I will review a few new AI tools that Figma recently introduced. https://medium.com/media/bd5872bb7c297a17ab1e0a646a348f86/href Note: You should have Figma paid plan to use AI tools. First Draft First Draft is a fancy name for a UI design generator. To use it, click Actions and select First Draft. When you click… Continue reading Figma AI Tools
AI Adoption in the Workplace Still Low, 2 Years Later
Summary: Designers may think AI features are now familiar to our users, but recent research suggests that adoption is still lower than we might think. Pew Research Center recently published interesting results from a large survey about AI usage in the workplace. In late 2024, they surveyed over 5,000 adults employed in the U.S., with… Continue reading AI Adoption in the Workplace Still Low, 2 Years Later
Blender Cycles vs. Eevee: choosing the right renderer
Rendering is where the magic happens in 3D art! It’s the step that turns your models and scenes into jaw-dropping, share-worthy visuals. If you’ve dabbled in Blender, you’ve probably come across two big names: Cycles and Eevee. But what’s the difference? And how do you know which one to pick? In this article we’ll break… Continue reading Blender Cycles vs. Eevee: choosing the right renderer
Blender Cycles vs. Eevee: choosing the right renderer
Rendering is where the magic happens in 3D art! It’s the step that turns your models and scenes into jaw-dropping, share-worthy visuals. If you’ve dabbled in Blender, you’ve probably come across two big names: Cycles and Eevee. But what’s the difference? And how do you know which one to pick? In this article we’ll break… Continue reading Blender Cycles vs. Eevee: choosing the right renderer
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+ Clever Negative Space Logos That Will Inspire You
Negative space logos are a unique and compelling design technique that uses the empty spaces within and around a logo to create a secondary image or visual effect. This approach not only adds depth and complexity to the design but also engages the viewer, encouraging them to look closer and discover hidden meanings. These logos… Continue reading 35+ Clever Negative Space Logos That Will Inspire You
10+1 Commandments For Using Figma
As we constantly work on many projects and in-house innovations, our UX professionals are massively familiar with the golden rules of using Figma. At UX studio, we develop ourselves and help everyone at the company grow continually. We have our well-established onboarding system, in-house pieces of training, and many other ways of knowledge sharing. It… Continue reading 10+1 Commandments For Using Figma
15 Great Tools & Resources for Designers & Agencies in 2024
Posted · Category: Design, Tools It’s 2024 and the number of web design resources and tools on the market seems overwhelming. That’s good news since you need the right tools and resources to come up with competitive designs. The bad news is, rather than sifting through thousands of products to get the ones that best… Continue reading 15 Great Tools & Resources for Designers & Agencies in 2024
A proposal for modern UX Researchers
A glimpse of the current standing of UXR and strategy on how to stay relevant with the workforce demand. Photo by Unseen Studio on Unsplash “The UX researcher fallacy: ‘My job is to learn about users.’Truth: ‘My job is to help my team learn about users.’”– Caroline Jarrett As 2024 starts, layoffs are still everywhere, specifically in… Continue reading A proposal for modern UX Researchers
UI elements are not so elementary
To function, components require a specific structure. To appear visually — they don’t. This has been breaking handoff processes for years. Dmitri Mendeleev’s periodic table looks simple, it doesn’t strike as if the elements are, in fact, significantly different from one another. But when you dig in and understand that just a ‘seemingly insignificant’ property of the number… Continue reading UI elements are not so elementary
From Image Adjustments to AI: Photoshop Through the Years
Tech By Max Walton 2 days ago Remember when Merriam-Webster added Photoshop to the dictionary back in 2008? Want to learn how AI is changing design forever? Join us as we delve into the history of Photoshop, from its early beginnings right through to the dawn of artificial intelligence. Photoshop is nothing short of a… Continue reading From Image Adjustments to AI: Photoshop Through the Years
How to AI
Three approaches to deploying generative AI for brands and corporations. 11 out 12 are generated by AI. One is real. Which one? | Source: Imagenavi & Jimmy Fermin History rhymes This isn’t a trick question: 11 out of 12 in the image above are generated by AI. Which one is the real person? I posed this quiz… Continue reading How to AI
The influence of mobile technology on user cognition and memory
Mobile technology is a part of our daily life more than ever before. Such technology can be a bless to our productivity but also make our brain a bit of a lazy thing. I wrote this article for my Interaction Design post-graduate course. I wanted to share with people some of the things I discovered and… Continue reading The influence of mobile technology on user cognition and memory
Accessibility of the Button: Should We Fix It or the Root Cause Problem?
Let me tell you a story along the lines of…Button, Button, Who’s Got The Button? Typical “how to” articles are dry laundry lists of tactical “do this/don’t do that” mechanics that do nothing to help you think about WHY you should do things differently. Today, I’m going to share a more strategic accessible design approach… Continue reading Accessibility of the Button: Should We Fix It or the Root Cause Problem?
The state of SaaS marketplace UX
A comprehensive review of popular SaaS marketplaces, including Airtable, Figma, Miro, Slack, and Zoom. Designing a SaaS marketplace or platform? Want to understand the SaaS marketplace experience of today? You’re in the right place. In this article, you’ll find a summary of the research I gathered to support my team in building our emerging platform. By reading… Continue reading The state of SaaS marketplace UX
Will nationalism end the golden age of global AI collaboration?
As nationalism divides nations and limits international collaboration, is the future of AI in danger? Artificial intelligence has made tremendous progress in recent years, and much of this progress can be attributed to the open-source software movement. By fostering collaboration and sharing knowledge and resources among developers worldwide, the open-source movement has helped bring together AI… Continue reading Will nationalism end the golden age of global AI collaboration?
21 Best CRM Software
The best CRM (Customer Relationship Management) software solutions help sales teams streamline critical processes to improve productivity, track customer interactions and gain actionable insights to deliver a personalized experience to sell smarter, shorten the sales cycle and drive better retention rates. This article reviews the 21 best CRM software to help you streamline your searches.… Continue reading 21 Best CRM Software
What did Victor Papanek leave for UX designers in “Design for Real Word”?
In the “Back to basics” series, I would like to rediscover the content of the textbooks I read at the beginning of my industrial design studies. I am a supporter of wise (prudent) use of the achievements of the predecessors, which is why I re-read these valuable, twentieth-century books on design and try to extract… Continue reading What did Victor Papanek leave for UX designers in “Design for Real Word”?
Should you do UX Research yourself, or hire an agency?
The Pros and Cons of these two options — plus a third you might have ignored The number at the end of the agency’s proposal was over one million Euros. I was floored. A client of mine had sent me a proposal from the latest research consulting firm in the runnings to help them explore a new market. Of the… Continue reading Should you do UX Research yourself, or hire an agency?
Research vs Vision: the origin story of Sony Walkman, Mini Cooper, and the iPhone
It’s always interesting to watch how companies approach the building of their new products. During the market research phase, companies are trying to future-proof every detail to ensure it will be popular among users and bring more money to the company. Research methodologies and strategies have been improving since the beginning of the 20th century. Some… Continue reading Research vs Vision: the origin story of Sony Walkman, Mini Cooper, and the iPhone
I’m not a robot (but, are you?)
The case for authenticating humans, reclaiming our identities, and defending against the coming swarm of bots. It’s 2022 and we are living in the opening scene of a dystopian Black Mirror episode. The line between what is real and what is fake has already blurred. The line between who is real and who is fake is now… Continue reading I’m not a robot (but, are you?)
8 Best Free and Open-Source JavaScript Image Editors
The internet is filled with countless images uploaded by users. This is especially true for social media websites—and it is very rare for people to post original unedited images anywhere. It is also common to need to post images with a specific size or format. While there are a lot of full-fledged image editing apps… Continue reading 8 Best Free and Open-Source JavaScript Image Editors