The rapid evolution of smart devices is pushing a new trend in user interface design – voice user interfaces. As people grow more comfortable talking to their phones, tablets, and wearables, brands who want to remain visible must invest in voice-friendly designs. See how voice user interface design has evolved, look at the most popular… Continue reading How Voice User Interface Design Is Changing the Online Experience
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The 6 Elements of an Effective Logo
The signature of your company, a strong logo has the power to make people think your name without actually seeing the words. It’s your symbol, and as such it should immediately telegraph what you stand for in the minds of your customers. This is why it’s important to consider the attributes of your primary customer… Continue reading The 6 Elements of an Effective Logo
9 Design and Formatting Tricks to Make Your Content Easier to Read
In a perfect world, content would be judged solely on the information it provides. The strength of a piece would depend exclusively on its subject matter, and how that subject is articulated through words and images. But in the online world, great information isn’t enough—you also need to present that information efficiently, and in an… Continue reading 9 Design and Formatting Tricks to Make Your Content Easier to Read
What is a landing page and what purpose does it serve?
So, let’s start off at the beginning! What is a landing page and what purpose does it serve? Well, in brief, it’s the first port of call after a consumer click through on a link, or ad for the product or service they are searching. This is your big chance, that opportunity you have been… Continue reading What is a landing page and what purpose does it serve?
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
On Being Humble, Creative, and Independent
On Being Humble Be modest. Your accomplishments to date have brought you this far, but don’t depend on it to bring you any further. That design competition you won, painting sold to a museum exhibition, or local media sensation? Cheers to having your hard work rewarded. Keep it up. Your accomplishments in the future starts with… Continue reading On Being Humble, Creative, and Independent
Which Metric Should You Use to Measure Customer Satisfaction?
The “Net Promoter Score” and the “Customer Effort Score” are two ways of measuring customer satisfaction. Let’s look at the similarities and differences. In UX design, metrics are used to measure how something is performing, and the “Net Promoter Score” (NPS) is recognised as being the gold standard of measuring satisfaction. Satisfaction may be a fairly… Continue reading Which Metric Should You Use to Measure Customer Satisfaction?
Museums, show your collection some love
Part I If you’ve ever visited a museum website, the above navigation structure probably looks familiar to you. Sections for “visit,” “exhibitions,” and “collection” are the core navigational components for the vast majority of museum websites. There’s an essential distinction that museums make between the permanent collection (those objects owned by the institution) and exhibitions… Continue reading Museums, show your collection some love
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
Kotlin From Scratch: Packages and Basic Functions
Kotlin is a modern programming language that compiles to Java bytecode. It is free and open source, and promises to make coding for Android even more fun. In the previous article, you learned about ranges and collections in Kotlin. In this tutorial, we’ll continue to learn the language by looking at how to organize code using… Continue reading Kotlin From Scratch: Packages and Basic Functions
You don’t need to know everything about UX
“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 just now. The high level of attention our discipline has… Continue reading You don’t need to know everything about UX
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
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?
5 Mobile App Genres Budding Entrepreneurs Should Look At
The diversity of mobile apps on App Store and Play Store opens up the new door for hundreds of thousands of indie developers and app development companies — but probably the shortcoming is the limited categories. It’s understandable that the way mobile apps and startups cultures are evolving, we’re likely to see a lot more… Continue reading 5 Mobile App Genres Budding Entrepreneurs Should Look At
Useful Tips to Design a Website Homepage That Draws Visitors
Creating a website for your company, firm or organization is a very useful way to advertise and inform the users and people what your product or agency is about. But more important than that is making the people actually stay on your website to read up about it. You need to make your website’s homepage… Continue reading Useful Tips to Design a Website Homepage That Draws Visitors
11 Communication Techniques for Designers
You have spent years getting this far — going to university, taking regular courses and workshops, going to conferences, reading countless books, articles, and listening to weekly podcasts — only for a stakeholder to steamroll your design expertise.Here are 11 techniques for improving your communication skills and getting your designs approved. There comes a point in every designers career… Continue reading 11 Communication Techniques for Designers
fractures: An atomic CSS toolkit for building websites
fractures is a CSS toolkit built by @pyx that may be used for quick prototyping as well as for production. The project consists of a library providing a set of CSS utility classes for handling spacing, grids, alignment and even typography in a matter of seconds. The good thing about fractures is that it is atomic, non blocking:… Continue reading fractures: An atomic CSS toolkit for building websites
How To Design Websites, Hotjar Makes It Super Easy To Understand What Visitors Really Want
First, let’s understand Hotjar in simple words, This is an easy way to improve your site user interaction and conversion rates by using Heatmaps, Visitor Recordings, Funnel and Form Analysis, Polls and Surveys, all from one easy to manage single interface. As you normally find people avoiding to share their opinion and experience with your… Continue reading How To Design Websites, Hotjar Makes It Super Easy To Understand What Visitors Really Want
3 Reasons A Picture Is Worth A Thousand Words In Design
Whoever said, “a picture is worth a thousand words” was right. It’s especially true on the internet. The images displayed on your website determine how your visitors perceive your business and brand. If you’ve got a website and want your visitors to consume your content or take a specific action, it’s imperative to project the… Continue reading 3 Reasons A Picture Is Worth A Thousand Words In Design
iotaCSS: A Sass design agnostic framework
iotaCSS is a new SASS based framework built by Dimitris Psaropoulos for creating lightweight, performant, readable and fully responsive interfaces. One of the most important features of iotaCSS is that it’s design agnostic: in other words, instead of forcing you to design in a specific way, it fully adapts on your design.. Furthermore, the framework uses BEM syntax, provides flexbox… Continue reading iotaCSS: A Sass design agnostic framework
How to Use Style Sheets in Adobe InDesign
Designers are always divided on which tech or software to use. There is no single piece of software that can do it all. They’re all better in some areas and less strong in others. Many designers end up using the software that they started out with because it is quick and simple for them to… Continue reading How to Use Style Sheets in Adobe InDesign
Best Directory and Listing WordPress Themes
April 20, 2017 by Veronika Step up your game on the directory and listing web design scene with these stunning WordPress theme tailored to meet the specific needs of the users, both employers, employees, sellers, and regular browsers. This collection contains few of the best WordPress themes for directories, listings, and classified ads. Price: $24… Continue reading Best Directory and Listing WordPress Themes
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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