The importance of zooming out in the design process →Design is the process of zooming in and zooming out of a certain problem, multiple times. The way I operate best in a design project is when I am able to balance these two roles in one: the role of doer (the hands-on designer who is… Continue reading You have to zoom in to learn to zoom out — and more UX links this week
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A few things I have learned after 10 years writing about UX
Photo: Drew Coffman I have been blogging for more than 10 years now. (Funny how “blogging” used as a verb sounds a bit off these days) It all started back in the day when I was working as an Information Architect (yep, “UX” is a relatively new term) at the biggest digital agency in Brazil. At… Continue reading A few things I have learned after 10 years writing about UX
Frequent vs. infrequent designers — and more UX links this week
If you like the links, don’t forget to ???????????????????????????????????????????????????????? Frequent vs. infrequent designers — and the tools designed for them → Frequent designers are people who routinely design for a certain platform (apps or websites or VR or chatbots or any other) and using a certain design tool (Sketch or Principle or Illustrator and so on). They… Continue reading Frequent vs. infrequent designers — and more UX links this week
Start your designs with a concept — and more UX links this week
If you like the links, don’t forget to ???????????????????????????????????????????????????????? Start your designs with a concept → The best designers I know always start a project with a concept (or conceptual model). What’s your design concept for this project? How do you envision people interacting with your product? What model are you trying to emulate in… Continue reading Start your designs with a concept — and more UX links this week
Note-taking during design reviews — and more UX links this week
News & ideas Netflix Sans, a new custom typeface developed with Dalton Maag Intel just open sourced Stephen Hawking’s speech system There’s a new trend on the internet of editing famous songs like if they were playing in an empty mall or from another room In case you were left wondering, this is what an inclusion… Continue reading Note-taking during design reviews — and more UX links this week
Build A Pomodoro Timer ― Scotch
Last week on the code challenge #5 we looked at building a movie player using a provided API. Here is the solution to the challenge built with Vue.js. This week we’ll be building a Pomodoro timer. A Pomodoro timer is a time management tool which breaks down task completion time into intervals of about 25… Continue reading Build A Pomodoro Timer ― Scotch
CSS Lightsaber Checkbox ― Scotch
Welcome to our Code Challenge #3. Way back when about five years ago when we started Scotch.io, one of our very first articles was to create lightsabers using plain CSS. Let’s bring that back and see how we can build out the same thing in this week’s code challenge. The Challenge The challenge is to… Continue reading CSS Lightsaber Checkbox ― Scotch
Build a Calculator with CSS Grid ― Scotch
This post is the second in a new Scotch series called Code Challenge. We haven’t done one of these since April 23, 2015 but we’d love to start them up more often. Every week we will post an image or tiny app that you can try to build yourselves! We encourage you to use CodePen… Continue reading Build a Calculator with CSS Grid ― Scotch
Design critique, the IA of Youtube, serial makers, and more UX this week
The UX of AI → Machine learning will cause us to rethink, restructure, and reconsider what’s possible in virtually every experience we build. By Josh Lovejoy. The IA, patterns, and flows of Youtube → An addiction that extends beyond the content, creators, and community. YouTube has some great IA, design patterns, and flows. By Vicky Weng. The… Continue reading Design critique, the IA of Youtube, serial makers, and more UX this week
UX at Google, designing friction, interface as a story, and more UX this week
The state of UX in 2018 The death and rebirth of UX → As designers, we have always fought to be involved in strategic decisions early on. Now that we have a seat at the table, what are we going to do about it? Designing for the age of immediacy → Real-time social media experiences are changing… Continue reading UX at Google, designing friction, interface as a story, and more UX this week
Designing On The Go? 4 Apps And Add-Ons For The Mobile Creator
Are your design projects running behind schedule? Or are you just having trouble keeping track of team members while on the go? Whatever the issue, the fact is that web design is a mobile field today, and we all work from a range of locations. That means we need tools that go with us. Take… Continue reading Designing On The Go? 4 Apps And Add-Ons For The Mobile Creator
When AI gets in the way of UX
Interest for “Artificial Intelligence” over the last 5 years, according to Google Trends. Artificial Intelligence is the big buzzword of today. If you are a digital designer, there are good chances that a quick scroll through your RSS reader, Twitter feed or Slack channels will show you more instances of the term “AI” than you would… Continue reading When AI gets in the way of UX
UX trends, 2017 highlights, and more UX links this week
The State of UX in 2018 → We have seen quite a lot this year. After curating and sharing 1,926 links with 189,489 designers all over the world, we see a few trends in what our industry is writing, talking, and thinking about. Here is what to expect for UX in 2018.
Precision in UX, Face ID and accessibility, conversation starters, and more UX this week
The burden of precision → Design tools today confine us to an unrealistic and ill-advised goal: one of perfection. Tools like Photoshop and Sketch are highly precise, and demand precise output from Designers. We measure the pixels between elements, the exact colors in multiple color spaces, and present these masterpieces in meetings before they’re handed… Continue reading Precision in UX, Face ID and accessibility, conversation starters, and more UX this week
UX portfolios, writing products, discoverability in touchscreens, and more UX this week
How to build a UX portfolio if I have never worked in UX? → A lot of user experience professionals who are active in our industry today have faced the question above when starting their career. Let’s be honest: it’s a bit unfair. “Portfolio” is a mandatory field in almost every job application form, regardless of… Continue reading UX portfolios, writing products, discoverability in touchscreens, and more UX this week
Using AI in design, questions designers should be asking, storyboarding, and more UX this week
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
Free Ecommerce UI Kit (PSD)
UI kits are great time-savers. They reduce the workload of designers and help them to increase their productivity – it is the very reason why designers love them and when UI kits are offered for free, they become even more beneficial and desirable. We know that ecommerce web design projects are time-consuming so we regularly… Continue reading Free Ecommerce UI Kit (PSD)
A Beginner’s Course on Blogging for Lawyers
There are few things about the legal field that are easy or simple. Potential lawyers need almost a decade’s worth of education just to become qualified, but then they still need to pass one of the more grueling, challenging exams in the professional world to begin practicing. Then there will be more years of learning… Continue reading A Beginner’s Course on Blogging for Lawyers
Beautiful UX deliverables, persuasive design, copying Snapchat, and more UX this week
If you like the links, don’t forget to ???????????????????????????????????????????????????????? Beautifully crafted UX deliverables for your inspiration → When people think of UX Design documentation, — wireframes, flows, personas — the first image that comes to mind is dense, long, and heavily annotated documents, full of boxes and arrows that indicate how a system is going to function and behave.… Continue reading Beautiful UX deliverables, persuasive design, copying Snapchat, and more UX this week
iPhone & iPad vector mockups
Freebie of the week is a set of iPhone and iPad vector mockups in flat style for wireframing and UI presentation released by KK UI Store. Both sets include the latest devices: iPhone X, 8, SE and iPad, Pro 10.5, Pro 12.9. Each set comes in 4 different versions (Dark, Line, Light, Transparent) and in PSD… Continue reading iPhone & iPad vector mockups
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
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
iPhone X & iPhone 8: Early free mockups
A couple of days ago Apple unveiled a new iPhone X model. Many free mockups have been released during the past week and here is an early collection of freebies you can download and use to showcase your apps or mobile site designs. Click on images below to download them! Credits: Danish Design | PSD Credits:… Continue reading iPhone X & iPhone 8: Early free mockups
UX overload, toolkit of a product designer, testing words, and more UX this week
If you like the links, don’t forget to ???? ????????????????????????????????????????????????????????. You don’t need to know everything about UX → I find myself saying this to other people quite often. You don’t need to be a specialist in all possible verticals within User Experience Design. And you probably can’t. A lot of people are starting in UX… Continue reading UX overload, toolkit of a product designer, testing words, and more UX this week