If you like the links, don’t forget to ???????????????????????????????????????????????????????? How AI has started to impact our work as designers → “The end is near”, according to specialists in robotics and artificial intelligence. Not really the end of the world itself, but the fact robots will be taking over a portion of jobs currently occupied by… Continue reading Using AI in design, questions designers should be asking, storyboarding, and more UX this week
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Grab This Month’s (Nov.) FREE MultiConcept eCommerce Shop Template
AllStore is a premium HTML online ecommerce store template. It is easy to use, customize and fully responsive in design. Although this theme can be used for selling almost anything it is most suitable for clothing shop, fashion store, furniture ecommerce, selling electronics, gadgets and accessories. The template layout is well structured and has been… Continue reading Grab This Month’s (Nov.) FREE MultiConcept eCommerce Shop Template
Chatbot User Experience 101: Vital Tips to Improve Chatbot UX
Use Simple Language & Diction in Your Chatbot Design Process It can’t be overstated how important personality is for a chatbot; personality makes a bot fun to talk to. When you’ve developed a bot personality, ensure your bot’s voice remains consistent throughout the conversation. Moments where a bot speaks “out of character” can be immersion breaking… Continue reading Chatbot User Experience 101: Vital Tips to Improve Chatbot UX
The age of empathy, Slack groups, designing with AI and more UX links this week
If you like the links, don’t forget to ???????????????????????????????????????????????????????? Stop doing user interviews; start having conversations → There’s something I’ve realized lately, that’s making my user interviews go smoother and getting deeper, more nuanced insights. The key is this: relax. Take a step back, for a moment. What is a user interview? If yours are… Continue reading The age of empathy, Slack groups, designing with AI and more UX links this week
The best Slack groups for UX designers
Tons of companies are using Slack to organize and facilitate how their employees communicate on a daily basis. Slack has now more than 5 million daily active users and more than 60,000 teams around the world. But whether the company you work for use Slack or not, you can still use the tool to connect… Continue reading The best Slack groups for UX designers
How Non-Digital Elements Can Improve UX
Designers draw ideas for website design and best user experience (UX) from everywhere – not just the digital sphere. If it annoys in real life, it can hinder user experience online. If it uplifts emotions or forms connections in the outside world, chances are it can be used for inspiration in designing online experiences as… Continue reading How Non-Digital Elements Can Improve UX
Essential Ingredients For Every Competitive Analysis
The Whys Why are competitors doing things a certain way? Why do people trust or use a competitor’s product? Why is a particular product among the top 3 or top 5 solutions in the market? One of the most effective practice is to use the 5 Whys technique. You can read more about it here.… Continue reading Essential Ingredients For Every Competitive Analysis
4 Great Design to WordPress Services You Need to Try
Posted · Category: Best Collections You’ve worked hard to transform your design concept into a finished design for an app or website. Yet, there is an obstacle between handing over the final design and product launch. It’s called “development”; a task that very few web designers are willing, or indeed able, to take on. Fortunately,… Continue reading 4 Great Design to WordPress Services You Need to Try
The 5 questions you should be asking yourself all day, everyday #UX
The other day I found myself writing down a list of 5 questions I was asking myself more frequently than ever in the projects I am working on — and decided to pass it on to my team as well. The agency life is extremely fast-paced. Each Experience Designer on my team is simultaneously involved in two… Continue reading The 5 questions you should be asking yourself all day, everyday #UX
Marketing and UX, perfect error messages, prototyping with Lottie and Principle and more UX links
Ending a client meeting at the perfect time, according to Paula Scher → You are giving a presentation. This line is the line of the reasonable level of expectation that everyone has when you walk into the room. You begin to present, and you come above the reasonable level of expectation; everybody gets enthusiastic, people begin… Continue reading Marketing and UX, perfect error messages, prototyping with Lottie and Principle and more UX links
Copy narcissism, design for startups, Sephora’s UX and other links this week
If you like the links, don’t forget to ???????????????????????????????????????????????????????? When copy loves itself too much → One time, I nearly lost my mind while brainstorming copy for a holiday print ad. I was writing for Havenly, an interior design company, and we were advertising in a popular home decorating magazine. “Keep it simple,” I told myself,… Continue reading Copy narcissism, design for startups, Sephora’s UX and other links this week
Start From User Expectations to Deliver a Good Mobile UX
Nowadays mobile devices come in all shapes and sizes, each with its own way of interpreting the data received and the user interface solution. This greatly determines the success of any given app design, so user experience is one of the top priorities you need to consider. When working on a site design, these various… Continue reading Start From User Expectations to Deliver a Good Mobile UX
When Copy Loves Itself Too Much
One time, I nearly lost my mind while brainstorming copy for a holiday print ad. I was writing for Havenly, an interior design company, and we were advertising in a popular home decorating magazine. “Keep it simple,” I told myself, “this has been done hundreds of times before.” An ad that took way too long… Continue reading When Copy Loves Itself Too Much
10 Best Corporate Website Design Examples
A corporate website is a virtual entrance to your business. Through it, your potential clients get to know your company. Thus, it should be appropriately developed to create the desired attitude and engage your customers to action. In this article, we will suggest a checklist for a good site and see some stunning corporate website… Continue reading 10 Best Corporate Website Design Examples
Public speaking, embracing the idle mind, principles of data viz, and more UX links this week
If you like the links, don’t forget to ???? ????????????????????????????????????????????????????????. Best practices for public speaking in design conferences and events → 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… Continue reading Public speaking, embracing the idle mind, principles of data viz, and more UX links this week
UX brutalism, fragile ideas, Kano model and more UX links this week
What’s hot in UX this week: Brutalist wireframes → Usability? Legibility? Common sense? Forget everything you know about UX. Here is a proper framework for designing brutalist experiences that your design peers will love. The Brutalist UX Framework™ is a not a tool nor a template; it is a mindset for UX Designers that brings… Continue reading UX brutalism, fragile ideas, Kano model and more UX links this week
20 Free Modern UI Design Elements & PSD UI Kits Download
Free download user interface design web elements and web layout or mockup design UI kits for modern UX design. You can download all free UI kits and web elements in PSD files. These UI elements are perfect for Mobile App UI, Gaming UI, framework, layout template and theme designing. In this article, I just gathered a fresh released… Continue reading 20 Free Modern UI Design Elements & PSD UI Kits Download
UX & Psychology go hand in hand— How Gestalt theory appears in UX design?
Source: iStock In the age of AI and “Human Centered Machine Learning”, it’s essential that we understand the needs and behaviour of our users. This is doubly true as a UX designer. In order to create work that better serves the needs of our users, it’s important to understand some basic psychological principles. Which is… Continue reading UX & Psychology go hand in hand— How Gestalt theory appears in UX design?
Solving the right problem, VR needs UX, github for designers, and more UX this week
A year ago… A psychological approach to designing interfaces → Do you ever get that feeling when you’re in a supermarket, looking at a sea of different types of toothpaste and you have no idea what to get? The reason why you get overwhelmed by these excessive options has to do with, you guessed it, psychology.… Continue reading Solving the right problem, VR needs UX, github for designers, and more UX this week
Enterprise UX Industry Report 2017-2018
By Speckyboy Editors on Jun 29 2017UX Driven by the consumerization of the enterprise, well-crafted UX is now a major competitive advantage for B2B products notorious for poor design. While many have reported on the overall role of design, few have investigated the new status quo for the multi-trillion dollar B2B space. Diving deep into… Continue reading Enterprise UX Industry Report 2017-2018
They are all around us: 6 archetypes of self-assessed “UX designers”
We’re living in the era of the “UX enthusiastics”: some people just feel they have a natural talent about anything related to “user” AND “experience” and this enables them to randomly act and feel as UX designer. Someone should tell them that this is one of those cases when a natural talent in not enough… Continue reading They are all around us: 6 archetypes of self-assessed “UX designers”
How to choose your first design gig: startup, corporate, or freelance?
The startup route is for designers who are also entrepreneurial souls. If you are the type to grind your way through to success, and love a high risk but high reward environment, then this might be the first job for you. There could also be a general lack of structures, systems, and processes. It is… Continue reading How to choose your first design gig: startup, corporate, or freelance?
Design for a Cause
Personal Design Projects Apart from the professional design work, most designers, especially aspiring designers invest a reasonable amount of time on personal ‘side projects’. These projects typically include redesign or UX analysis of an existing product, concept product design, usability testing etc. They are really good for practicing UX skills. Simultaneously, most designers showcase them in… Continue reading Design for a Cause
UX and design thinking: 5 tips for changing your company mindset
The UX design is based off an attitude, a mindset that aims to catch those unfulfilled user needs in the context of a certain experience and turn them into design opportunities, through a process made of specific steps, mainly provided by the “design thinking tool set”. Conversely, so many companies in the digital industry keep… Continue reading UX and design thinking: 5 tips for changing your company mindset