Summary: Designers must embrace 5 principles as our industry shifts with AI. Generative AI is impacting job markets. According to researchers at Harvard Business School, the German Institute for Economic Research, and the U.K.’s Imperial College London Business School, demand for automation-prone jobs fell 21% eight months after the release of ChatGPT in late 2022.… Continue reading Redefine Your Design Skills to Prepare for AI
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Redesigning Alerts for Life or Death
[unable to retrieve full-text content] A real-time alert on a phone screen — illustrating the critical need for better emergency messaging. How Smart UX Design Can Make Alerts Matter It was 10 AM when my phone blasted what turned out to be a critical Wireless Emergency Alert. Like many of us would, I instinctively swiped it away and… Continue reading Redesigning Alerts for Life or Death
Testing Visual Design: A Comprehensive Guide
Summary: Use methods like 5-second testing, first-click testing, and preference testing to gain insights into how users perceive your visual design. Visual design is the first thing users notice when they encounter a digital product like a website or app. It plays a large role in capturing users’ attention, defining brand identity, and creating an… Continue reading Testing Visual Design: A Comprehensive Guide
UX and CX Merge: The Shift from Products to Journeys
Summary: Organizations are starting to merge user experience and customer experience into a single function, setting the foundation for a journey-centric-experience practice. Organizational silos and product-centric design make it difficult to resolve friction for customers who use our products and services. User-centered design is applied to digital products, but many pain points in real customer… Continue reading UX and CX Merge: The Shift from Products to Journeys
3 Design Processes for High Usability: Iterative Design, Parallel Design, and Competitive Testing
Summary: 3 methods for increasing UX quality by exploring and testing diverse design ideas work even better when you use them together. This is an updated version of an article written by Jakob Nielsen in 2011. There’s no one perfect user-interface design, and you can’t get good usability by simply shipping your one best idea.… Continue reading 3 Design Processes for High Usability: Iterative Design, Parallel Design, and Competitive Testing
New Year, New Fonts: Fresh Free Fonts for Graphic Designers
As we usher in the New Year, it’s the perfect opportunity to revamp your design toolkit with a fresh collection of fonts. Typography is a vital element in any creative project, setting the tone and conveying the message with style. This year’s collection offers a range of free fonts tailored for every designer’s needs—whether you’re… Continue reading New Year, New Fonts: Fresh Free Fonts for Graphic Designers
Website Security Tips: Why It’s Important and How to Protect Your Site
In today’s increasingly digital world, websites have become the backbone of businesses, organizations, and personal brands alike. They serve as a point of contact, a source of information, and often, a means to conduct transactions. However, with the rise in website usage comes the rise in cyber threats. Whether it’s a personal blog, an e-commerce… Continue reading Website Security Tips: Why It’s Important and How to Protect Your Site
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
MeasuringU reviews, price & alternatives
❕ Important note: This review site presents information relevant for researchers, not for participants in the user panel. TABLE OF CONTENTS What is MeasuringU? MUiQ is a UX research tool for desktop and mobile, offering usability studies, IA testing, surveys, and live sessions. With task recordings, click maps, and analytics, it helps you gain user… Continue reading MeasuringU reviews, price & alternatives
Accelerators Maximize Efficiency in User Interfaces
Summary: Alternate methods for accomplishing frequent actions in user interfaces support expert users by speeding up their interactions, without hindering novice users. Designing for expert users requires balancing learnability with efficiency. While new users need an intuitive interface to start quickly, expert users demand features that improve speed and productivity over time. Any system that… Continue reading Accelerators Maximize Efficiency in User Interfaces
15 Best New Fonts, September 2024
Compilations By Simon Sterne September 30, 2024 Welcome to our roundup of the best new fonts we’ve found on the web in the previous four weeks. In this month’s edition there’s plenty of hand-lettering charm, and some excellent historical revivals. Enjoy! Kornel Kornel is a serif type family designed for long texts, featuring classic proportions… Continue reading 15 Best New Fonts, September 2024
Your AI UX Intern: Meet Ari
Summary: Work with AI tools in UX the way you’d work with an intern: Treat their work as a first pass, double-check their facts, and provide specific instructions. We’ve long recommended working with AI tools like you might work with an intern — providing lots of instructions, guidance, oversight, and correction. This analogy helps avoid… Continue reading Your AI UX Intern: Meet Ari
Documenting design process with Notion
[unable to retrieve full-text content] An ultimate approach to Design Documentation Managing projects efficiently is crucial to keep your work process moving smoothly. Working within a design team, or collaborating with multiple stakeholders, staying organised can be a challenge. This is where a Design Documentation Notion Template comes into play. Design documentation – Notion template A… Continue reading Documenting design process with Notion
Free Hanging Poster Mockup
Looking for the perfect way to showcase your poster designs? Our free hanging poster mockup PSD template is the ideal solution. This high-resolution poster mockup offers incredible quality and detail, ensuring your artwork looks professional and polished. Designed with smart objects, it’s easy to use, allowing you to effortlessly drag and drop your designs into… Continue reading Free Hanging Poster Mockup
Free Simple Branding Stationery Mockup
Presenting your branding concepts professionally can make all the difference in winning over clients and securing contracts. A well-designed Stationery Mockup allows you to showcase your branding assets in a realistic and visually appealing way. Whether you’re designing for a corporate client or creating personal branding projects, having the right branding mockups is essential for… Continue reading Free Simple Branding Stationery Mockup
Best Figma User and Usability Testing Plugin
Key Takeaways 👉 UXtweak seamlessly connects with Figma, making it easy to start testing your prototypes without complicated setup. 👉 The plugin provides in-depth analytics, including statistics, heat maps, and funnels, to help you understand user behavior. 👉 UXtweak offers access to a reliable pool of testers, ensuring dependable feedback from your respondents. 👉 The… Continue reading Best Figma User and Usability Testing Plugin
A/B Testing 101
Summary: A/B tests incrementally improve the user experience of a product while effectively reaching business goals. A/B testing (sometimes also referred to as split testing) is a popular UX research method, with widespread adoption across businesses and industries. To ensure reliable, meaningful, and beneficial results for your organization, follow best practices and avoid common mistakes… Continue reading A/B Testing 101
7 Common Mistakes in Running Workshops
At UX studio, we facilitate and participate in many workshops, so we have that kind of experience, which could be helpful for someone searching for the how-tos. Here comes your guidance on how to run a workshop and how not to. What Are Workshops and Why Do We Run Them Workshops are designed to solve… Continue reading 7 Common Mistakes in Running Workshops
Exploring AR Design for Children
Lab Projects Nurturing Innovation Through Lab Projects At UX studio, our lab projects help our team flex their creative muscles and freely explore new ideas, methods and technologies. During lab projects, we work within the studio in a smaller team to achieve a specific goal we’ve set, or develop a product we’ve envisioned. The dedicated… Continue reading Exploring AR Design for Children
Prompt Controls in GenAI Chatbots: 4 Main Uses and Best Practices
Summary: When following good practices, prompt controls can increase the discoverability of genAI chatbots’ features, offer inspiration, and minimize manual user input. Adding UI Controls to Prompting Generative AI (genAI) chatbots, such as ChatGPT and Perplexity, rely heavily on text prompts from their users. As these interfaces continue to evolve, AI chatbot designers have started… Continue reading Prompt Controls in GenAI Chatbots: 4 Main Uses and Best Practices
The Humanization of ChatGPT and Its Impact on Trust
AI is the future, but we still know very little about it. We believe that understanding how people think about AI and how they use AI tools are key parts in being able to create proper AI-powered products and tools. This thought motivated us to do research on the topic. The research process itself was… Continue reading The Humanization of ChatGPT and Its Impact on Trust
Simple and Clean Minimal CV Resume Templates
In today’s fast-paced job market, recruiters often spend mere seconds scanning resumes before deciding on an interview. A cluttered or poorly formatted CV Resume can mean your application gets tossed aside, even if you possess the perfect skillset. This is where the power of minimal CV resumes comes into play. As technology evolves, so too… Continue reading Simple and Clean Minimal CV Resume Templates
InsFollowPro Review: Boost Your Instagram with Real Followers, Likes, and Views
In the digital age, Instagram has become a vital platform for personal branding and business growth. Yet, building a strong Instagram presence can be a daunting task. Enter InsFollowPro, an Instagram growth service designed to boost your Instagram with real followers, likes, and views. This article provides an in-depth review of InsFollowPro, exploring its features,… Continue reading InsFollowPro Review: Boost Your Instagram with Real Followers, Likes, and Views
5 Website Features to Help Your Business Thrive in the Digital Age
In the age of instant gratification, attention spans are shorter than a tweet on a Tuesday. That’s why your website, the digital doorknob to your business, needs to make a stellar first impression. Studies show that a whopping 95% of a visitor’s initial judgment is based on design alone. Now, that’s a statistic that could… Continue reading 5 Website Features to Help Your Business Thrive in the Digital Age