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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…
Safer Digital Menu Experiences : Hotels & Restaurants adaptations Covid19
Convenience, has been the factor driving adoption of most of the services and experiences that are ubiquitous across continents and industries. Be it the 10$ all you can watch from any device, that Netflix’s business model is based on to Instagrams 7 second auto-scrolling stories that have allowed for embedding of more full-screen immersive advertisements.…
A 5-Step Process For Conducting User Research
Imagine that this is what you know about me: I am a college-educated male between the ages of 35 and 45. I own a MacBook Pro and an iPhone 5, on which I browse the Internet via the Google Chrome browser. I tweet and blog publicly, where you can discover that I like chocolate and…
Match the tool to the Problem
How long has it been since you’ve heard designers argue about which method is better: sketches, wireframes, mock-ups, or HTML prototypes? Probably not long enough… One designer will claim that you shouldn’t do anything without sketching it out while another claims that doing anything less than full-on HTML prototypes is a waste of time. All…
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…
Is UX the Key to a Long-lasting Business
“But what if the firm was driven, not by the goal of short-term profitability, but by the goal of continuous innovation in service of finding new ways of delighting customers? The new bottom line of this kind of organization becomes whether the customer is delighted. Conventional financial measures such as maximizing shareholder value are subordinated…
Laws of Simplicity
Simplicity = Sanity Technology has made our lives more full, yet at the same time we’ve become uncomfortably “full.”Iwatched the process whereby my daughters gleefully got their first email accounts. It began as a tiny drop—emails sent among themselves. It grew to a slow drip as their friends joined the flow of communication. Today it…
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…