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)
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Design is Diversity, UX Job Boards, Terrible Designs, and other UX links this week
What’s hot in UX this week: Design is Diversity: it’s Time to Talk about our Role as Designers → As designers, we spend most of our day imagining and building experiences that, when added up, take a big portion of people’s days and affect a lot the relationships they have with other people and with… Continue reading Design is Diversity, UX Job Boards, Terrible Designs, and other UX links this week
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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Magento Website Designs To Inspire You
March 28, 2017 by Veronika Magento is known as one of the most popular content management systems for eCommerce websites. Being used by millions of websites on the Web, Magento also has some of the best examples of eCommerce UX and UI design done right. You can get inspired to build your next online shop… Continue reading Magento Website Designs To Inspire You
UX Job Boards: 24 places to find a job in User Experience Design
[unable to retrieve full-text content] A lot of people ask about reliable sources to find UX and UI jobs online. The challenge is: job postings in our industry are very fragmented. Here are a few places for you to start your search. Photo: Raw Pixel Professional Job Boards UXPA Job Bank Job Bank | User Experience Professionals Association IxDA… Continue reading UX Job Boards: 24 places to find a job in User Experience Design
Docsify: A magical documentation generator
I was just looking for a clean documentation templates focused on usability when it magically appeared right in my face! That’s docsify, not a template but a documentation generator which doesn’t generate static HTML files, but loads and parses your markdown files and displays them as website. It is lightweight and comes with a bunch of themes. Also, it comes with a powerful live search… Continue reading Docsify: A magical documentation generator
Docsify: A magical documentation generator
I was just looking for a clean documentation templates focused on usability when it magically appeared right in my face! That’s docsify, not a template but a documentation generator which doesn’t generate static HTML files, but loads and parses your markdown files and displays them as website. It is lightweight and comes with a bunch of themes. Also, it comes with a powerful live search… Continue reading Docsify: A magical documentation generator
Women in UX, YouTube channels for designers, Bots from Hell, and more UX this week
What’s hot in UX this week: 30 Women Rocking in UX to Celebrate the International Women’s Day → Last Wednesday was International Women’s Day. According to Wikipedia, in different regions the focus of the celebrations ranges from general celebration of respect, appreciation and love towards women for their economic, political and social achievements. That’s what we’re… Continue reading Women in UX, YouTube channels for designers, Bots from Hell, and more UX this week
5 UX Trends That Will Change The Web in 2017
March 6, 2017 by Veronika With an increased prevail of AI services and personalization over static UX, 2017 holds a lot of changes for desktop and mobile design that are going to change the way users interact on the Internet. This article takes a closer look at some of the top UX trends for 2017… Continue reading 5 UX Trends That Will Change The Web in 2017
Interaction Awards, Chatbot Interactions, Empathy as Faux Ethics, and more UX this week
What’s hot in UX this week: Notifications: an Interview with John Saito, from Dropbox → We dream of a future with connected and ubiquitous experiences, but we still feel overwhelmed with the notifications across all our devices. In this last piece of our series we interviewed John Saito, ‘designer of words’ at Dropbox, about how we… Continue reading Interaction Awards, Chatbot Interactions, Empathy as Faux Ethics, and more UX this week
A few things I learned from the second day at #Interaction17 #IxDA17
Interaction 17 is one of the biggest UX conferences in the world. Organized by IxDA, it brings together design leaders, professionals, and students from different continents to discuss the future of Interaction Design and our role and responsibility as designers in creating experiences for our users — as well as the larger impact the products we create… Continue reading A few things I learned from the second day at #Interaction17 #IxDA17
Common UX Mistakes and How to Avoid (or Fix) Them
Have you ever fumbled through a complicated contact form on a mobile website or wished for a button or link that wasn’t there? If so, you’ve experienced what a lack of foresight in user experience (UX) design causes. Don’t fall victim to the same common UX mistakes. Make sure potential customers poor UX design doesn’t… Continue reading Common UX Mistakes and How to Avoid (or Fix) Them
UX Interviews, Stop Trump’s Wall, What Designers Can Learn From Gyms, and more UX this week
What’s hot in UX this week: Designing Beyond Screens: an Interview with UX Author Dan Saffer → Dan Saffer is a product leader, designer and the author of the books Designing Devices (2011), Designing Gestural Interfaces (2008), Designing for Interaction (2006, 2009) and Microinteractions (2013). Since 1995, he has been helping shape our field, working with… Continue reading UX Interviews, Stop Trump’s Wall, What Designers Can Learn From Gyms, and more UX this week
UX Design Is the New Web Design: How to Shift Your Career
Advancing technology and the digital revolution are rapidly changing the career landscape for designers. Where web design once reigned as the career of choice for digitally-minded visual designers, that job has recently been dethroned by a new supreme leader of the design realm: UX designer. As more people do business digitally – not just on computers,… Continue reading UX Design Is the New Web Design: How to Shift Your Career
Visually Build Native Apps Right In Your Browser With Dropsource
Dropsource is a brand new mobile application development platform that was built with the developer’s needs in mind. What does this mean exactly? It means that its sole purpose is to make a developer’s job easier and to make building a data-driven native mobile app as simple as drag and drop. Dropsource comes equipped with… Continue reading Visually Build Native Apps Right In Your Browser With Dropsource
How to use breadcrumbs (the right way)
Bread crumbs…they bring up associations with the fairy tale of Hansel and Gretel, where Hansel leaves bread crumbs to help him find his way home again. Although the association with bread crumbs is perhaps still stronger in the realm of Grimm stories, that’s gradually changing as breadcrumbs in navigation help web designers create a better… Continue reading How to use breadcrumbs (the right way)
How to delight your users with subtle animation
Happy Thanksgiving to all our American readers! Animation is nothing new in digital interfaces. They have had an interesting history of rising, falling and now rising again in popularity. Subtle animations add personality and empathy into an otherwise dull interface. They make experiences fun, delightful and memorable. Animation in web design has been around for… Continue reading How to delight your users with subtle animation
Poll: should coders learn to design?
Okay developers, it’s your turn. People have ranted on and on for years about whether or not designers should learn to code. Heck, I’ve ranted about it. I still contend that… no. No no… This is about you devs, now. Should people who primarily code the back end of web products learn to design the… Continue reading Poll: should coders learn to design?
eBay experiments with a visual search engine
eBay, the giant auction site, has just launched a new site specifically for people looking for furniture and other complementary products and items for the home. eBay Collective, to be sure, is a site that’s aimed more at the high-end crowd, as it features items like antiques, fine art, contemporary design, and other unique items.… Continue reading eBay experiments with a visual search engine
What You Need To Do To Be A Great UX Designer
The concept of user experience design is a relatively new idea, and now it is an appropriate time to find a way of defining it, by identifying UX design skills and by looking at how these need to be put into practice. In design terms, everything that goes into user experience can make UX a… Continue reading What You Need To Do To Be A Great UX Designer
What Is A User Experience Designer And What Do They Do
The term ‘design’ can be a deceptively simple one. It sounds curiously vague, and when offered in response to most people, it elicits a degree of confusion. For example, when somebody says ‘Oh, I work as a designer,’ a lot of people do not entirely understand what this means. This is because, for such a… Continue reading What Is A User Experience Designer And What Do They Do
Looking for a Prototyping Tool? Here are Some Very Good Ones
Posted · Category: Best Collections First of all, how exactly do you intend to present your design, or elements of it, to others, or test the UX? With a prototype of course, but there are also wireframes and mockups to consider. All three serve a purpose, but they are not one and the same. The… Continue reading Looking for a Prototyping Tool? Here are Some Very Good Ones
Web Design In Action: A Sample Design Workflow
Advertisement Designing and building an entire website from scratch involves many different pieces. It can get easier with time and practice, but you’re always starting from a blank slate for every new project which can be tough. The best thing to do is fall into a creative routine that you can follow every time. This… Continue reading Web Design In Action: A Sample Design Workflow
Apply to Top Tech Companies with 1 Application
Posted · Category: Information Most everyone working or training in the technology field understands that they will be changing jobs every three years—this is part of being involved in the fastest growing and most lucrative industry in the world. Indeed, the top employment site in the world, has created a special site just for tech:… Continue reading Apply to Top Tech Companies with 1 Application