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How to create a UI Style Guide for Better User Experience
Designers and developers of today’s digital experiences face a similar challenge. The passage of time is a formidable foe capable of wreaking havoc on the continuity of digital products. With time, team members come and go, trends evolve, and features change. Plus, the rapid pace of our modern day digital landscape means that product innovation…
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5 tips & tricks to improve your UI designs
Small and easy to put into practice tips to improve your designs. Creating beautiful, usable, and efficient UIs takes time, with many design revisions along the way. Making those constant tweaks to produce something that your clients, users, and yourself are truly happy with. I know. I’ve been there many times before myself. But what…
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5 Websites with inspiring User Interface (UI) Design
We’ve all encountered websites and applications that make us want to throw our devices across the room in frustration. At least, I hope it’s not just me. Fundamentally, a good user interface enables users to complete the activity that they came to the website to do with ease and without confusion. Truly great UI achieves…
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Artificial Intillegence enabled User Interface Design : How to Guide
Since the dawn of the industrial age, we have been using technology to automate and eliminate labor-intensive tasks in order to become more efficient. Technology makes it possible for humans to have more convenient lifestyles. AI is an emerging technology that promotes efficiency and convenience. Its revolutionary changing the way people interact with machines. Companies…
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The usage lifcecycle
As users interact with your product or service, they proceed through a series of steps called the usage lifecycle. The usage lifecyle is a mapping of the user’s experience with your design. Like other lifecycles, the usage lifecycle has a beginning, middle, and an end, each of which are characterized by different behaviors and goals. Though they…
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5 Steps in Web Design And Development Process
Designing and building a web site/app requires development teams to follow a process of steps that get the project to completion. As an interface designer at Create for more than five years, I’m well versed in this process and I understand what it takes to get to the finish line. For a client or business owner, understanding the…
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A 5-Step Process For Conducting User Research
Our guest author this week is David Sherwin is Director of User Experience for lynda.com at LinkedIn, as well as a Fellow at frog. He is the author of Creative Workshop: 80 Challenges to Sharpen Your Design Skills and _Success by Design: The Essential Business Reference for Designers_, both available from HOW Books. Imagine that…
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UX trends in 2017
#1 Usability becomes a commodity Design patterns are still a thing — a big thing. More and more, designers can rely on robust and comprehensive interaction pattern libraries for solving common design use cases. Now that the basics are covered, where do we want to focus our efforts? You don’t need to reinvent the wheel when designing a…
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Simplicity is Important
All designers say simplicity is important, but what does it really mean to make something simple? Most of the time we think it means less, that by removing stuff we achieve simplicity. We think by keeping content above the fold we’re helping people focus, or by using bullets instead of paragraphs more people will read…