Tag: stage

7 Common UX Designing Mistakes Found in the Mobile App Realm

Mobile app market seems to be mushrooming like never before. Developers are making the most of on-boarding tactics, inline hinting or tutorials to attract users’ attention for long. Do you which is the best mobile app design found across the globe? It is the one that goes unnoticed. It is rightly said that we humans… Continue reading 7 Common UX Designing Mistakes Found in the Mobile App Realm

Why Choose Customized Code Over Template Web Design

Your website is a representation of your brand online, and having it designed to look amazing should be a priority. In fact, 94% of people end up judging a website from the responsiveness of its web design. Most believe that a serious business will pay close attention to how they represent their brand online. Additionally,… Continue reading Why Choose Customized Code Over Template Web Design

Best Selling UX and UI Kits For Sketch, Photoshop, Illustrator, XD, and Figma

UX and UI Kits help designers in all kinds of ways, and at different stages in the design process. In this roundup I’ll show you some of the best-selling UX and UI kits available from Envato, to get you started wireframing, prototyping, and designing your next website or app. What Are UX and UI Kits?… Continue reading Best Selling UX and UI Kits For Sketch, Photoshop, Illustrator, XD, and Figma

Understanding the Messy “Define” Stage

In our previous articles, we’ve discussed the basics of design thinking and immersive empathy. In this post, we’ll dive a little deeper into what we refer to as the “define” stage in that process. Warning: it’s messy! So let’s first remind ourselves where it sits in the Hasso-Plattner Institute of Design’s proposal: Image source: Interaction Design… Continue reading Understanding the Messy “Define” Stage

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

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

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

Tips On Educating Your Web Design Clients

You’ll often find that your web design clients simply do not know web design the way you do. They don’t follow the trends, they don’t really understand the terminology, and they don’t understand the reasoning behind certain web design decisions. You certainly know all those things. After all, it’s your job. You’re a web designer.… Continue reading Tips On Educating Your Web Design Clients

There’s no such thing as “minor design changes”

Sharing a quick story I found on Intercom’s blog about how there’s no such thing as a small change in a product. At some point Intercom’s team decided to limit the number of characters of their reviews to 140. “We want to limit the length of a review in the product to 140 characters, because… Continue reading There’s no such thing as “minor design changes”

How to Build a CRM Software from the Ground Up

There are times when dealing with customers may seem like a maze you can’t solve. The only way out is to have reliable CRM solution. However, you might find it tricky to select what the market now has to offer. This is where you can start planning to build your CRM software; no kidding. Starting… Continue reading How to Build a CRM Software from the Ground Up

Studying Web Design: 5 Typical Problems Newbies Have

For people who are just getting accustomed to the world of website creation, studying web design is an intriguing prospect. Learning how to customize websites and make them unique is a lovely thing. But if you are a beginner, you’ll agree this isn’t easy. To correctly describe web design, one would call it ‘a science… Continue reading Studying Web Design: 5 Typical Problems Newbies Have

Best practices for public speaking in design conferences and events

Hello, old friend. We all reach a point in our careers when we start speaking in public. Designers, in particular, are pretty good at organizing conferences, panels, meetups, livestreams and other forms of publicly sharing knowledge with fellow designers. Speaking at design events is not only important for the design community as a whole, but also… Continue reading Best practices for public speaking in design conferences and events

Design makes AI smarter

Designers today most likely have been designing for products that use some level of AI for automation. We have been designing in the first stage of AI, artificial narrow intelligence. To get to the second stage of AI, artificial general intelligence, we need user data. Lots of it. How do we get this information? To… Continue reading Design makes AI smarter

How to Design a Landing Page That Converts

Every e-commerce website is designed to have one primary goal: to convert visitors. Conversion can range from a completed sale to registering a membership, or filling out a subscription form. Whatever it is, an effectively designed website must be able to convince users to achieve that primary goal. In light of various research and experiments,… Continue reading How to Design a Landing Page That Converts

How I apply the Value Proposition Canvas to convince my clients to invest more time in customer…

A few years ago, I used to struggle to convince my clients to give me more — or just some — time to do a good customer research, and I must confess I lost a few battles. But eventually, I learnt how to manage it. I stopped fighting this. At first, I would listen to them carefully — after all, they… Continue reading How I apply the Value Proposition Canvas to convince my clients to invest more time in customer…

Web Design Trends and Styles You Should Know About

Web design has truly come a long way. As technology gives designers the power to explore beyond the boundaries, we’ve seen some pretty classy trends being born. Of course, as these new trends are born, some older ones have had to give way. For instance, in 2016, we saw flat design for the first time.… Continue reading Web Design Trends and Styles You Should Know About

The best European design events and conferences in 2017

September 2017 Reasons to: Design, Code & Create Design, Code, Create & Come Together Reasons to: is the award winning 3 day international conference with a festival vibe, held annually in Brighton UK, every first Mon, Tue, Weds of every September. Each year the very best international creative and developer speakers take to the stage to… Continue reading The best European design events and conferences in 2017

The Evolution Process From A Junior Level Designer To Becoming A Design Lead

This post feels somewhat like a coming of age story. If you’re a junior designer, it might be eye opening. On the contrary, as a design lead it might be the dark satirical humor after a long day that puts a smile on your face. As designers, we all face daily battles big or small,… Continue reading The Evolution Process From A Junior Level Designer To Becoming A Design Lead

A Beginners Guide To Making Yourself Artificially Intelligent • (It’s A Lot Easier Than You Think)

If you are helping somebody, you are awaking somebody. A High-Level Overview Of The Design This is an awesome chance to begin to think about what you wear everyday. Sitting down, and analyzing what you like to wear allows you to refractor your personal source code that is written via the Python Script inside you. Let’s… Continue reading A Beginners Guide To Making Yourself Artificially Intelligent • (It’s A Lot Easier Than You Think)

The Ultimate Guide to User on-Boarding – Tips and Best Practices

In the mobile era, where mobile internet usage has already surpassed desktop usage and with drastic change in user behavior and habits happening in the recent times, delivering a great user experience to your website or app visitors is highly important than ever before. Mobile users are impatient and quick – bad UX increases bounce… Continue reading The Ultimate Guide to User on-Boarding – Tips and Best Practices

The FAQs that got me more UX interviews (and ultimately my dream job)

At the top of my FAQs I added links to my email, portfolio, Medium, and LinkedIn for convenience. What does design mean to you? Design is strategic problem solving that improves people’s lives. Empathy, pragmatism and creativity are applied to the adventure of hunting and validating ideas — a process that leads to intentional solutions. The results are… Continue reading The FAQs that got me more UX interviews (and ultimately my dream job)

An engineering manager’s guide to rebranding —

Anytime a company launches a rebrand there’s the obligatory “how we did it” blog post. Uber did it, AirBnB did it and we did it. Usually these posts jump right from “good looking people putting post-it notes on a glass wall” to “unveil on an unsuspecting public” stage, and completely skip the really tricky part — going… Continue reading An engineering manager’s guide to rebranding
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4 Ways Designers Can Use Asana to Organize Their Work

Collaboration, organization, and communication are important to making a design process flow smoothly–especially when you’re dealing with multiple stakeholders or cross-functional teams. After all, nothing is worse than having to waste time digging around Google Docs for a product roadmap from last month or not getting enough context for a mockup you’re about to work… Continue reading 4 Ways Designers Can Use Asana to Organize Their Work