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4 Steps To Get You Started With Front-End Development

September 5, 2016 by Yona Gidalevitz

As a designer, you are likely surrounded by talent of all shapes and sizes, be it branding, marketing, or development. Over the course of your career, however, you may end up needing some of these other talents so as to provide a well-rounded deliverable. Perhaps the most complimentary skillset to UX design is that of front-end development. If you are just entering the … [Read more...]

Magento Vs. Shopify – A Usability Comparison

August 1, 2016 by Matt Gierut

Picture this: you are at a discovery meeting with your ecommerce client and your team's technical advisor. As the presiding UX specialist, your role in this meeting is to gather requirements and apply them towards a proposal and scope of work (SOW). Your client is not sure which Content Management System (CMS) they would prefer and asks your team for a recommendation … [Read more...]

Mood Boards In UX Design: Ignite Passion In Your Users

July 18, 2016 by Yona Gidalevitz

You know that feeling you get - the one that creeps up on you like rain in Summer, making you shudder from emotion? It happens when you get blindsided by something powerful, something meaningful, perhaps something from your past. It is entirely out of your control. It can happen anywhere: a baby in a young mother's arms may remind you of your first child? a song might … [Read more...]

University Web Design Programs: Which One Is Right for You?

July 13, 2016 by Alan Smith

Part artist, part tech wizard, web designers use basic artistic concepts to create beautiful, functional websites and they can code the individual features of a site to perfection. They love technology and innovation and they are always looking for new ways to make their designs more usable. If any of the previous sentences piqued your interest, you might have the heart of … [Read more...]

6 Prototyping Tools For Any UX Designer

July 6, 2016 by Jenna Erickson

The UX design process can be considered critical to the success of a website or mobile application. Creating and testing prototypes prior to launch is a large part of this process and the list of tools that are available to do this is growing at a rapid pace. With so many different tools out there, how does one determine which to use? Choosing the right tool for your UX … [Read more...]

Axure RP 8 Review: New Face, Same Personality

May 23, 2016 by Yona Gidalevitz

Axure RP has received a face-lift in the form of Axure RP 8. Axure RP, along with Sketch and Invisionapp, is among the most popular pieces of software for prototyping and wireframing, so it is only natural that UX designers see updates every-so-often. This one has bumped Axure RP to version 8. Some UX specialists will be more excited than others, but one thing is for sure: … [Read more...]

Improving Persona Usability For Goal-Oriented UX

May 9, 2016 by Jenna Erickson

A user persona is a powerful UX research tool critical to the UX design process. It provides immeasurable value by giving the UX designer rich insight into the mind of the representative user. Personas are, in essence, the manifestations of user research, and as such provide rich insight for every leg of the design process. Without research to back up design choices, the … [Read more...]

Adobe Summit 2016: Marketing + UX

April 4, 2016 by Yona Gidalevitz

This year, Adobe’s Summit conference moved from Salt Lake City to Las Vegas, likely in an attempt to accommodate the ever-growing number of attendees and speakers. Adobe claims that 10,000+ digital marketers, data scientists, developers, and designers attended this year’s event. That’s probably why the event was held at the Sands Convention Center, the third largest in the … [Read more...]

Mouse Tracking Is The Only Valid Data Visualisation Tool For UX Designers

March 7, 2016 by Piotr Koczorowski

Chewing through a large dataset of numbers is like eating stale cereal – boringly unpleasant. Yet, when evaluating the User Experience of websites or web apps we do not only focus on numbers, since there is other data and insights that usually needs analysis. The sheer volume of this task is in itself a problem. To aid us, various forms of data visualisation have came … [Read more...]

Smart UX: High­-Fidelity Wireframes

February 15, 2016 by Jenna Erickson

As a UX designer, you’ve grown accustomed to your daily routine: a bit of research here, some interaction design there. And if crafting wireframes on a daily basis has started to take it’s toll on you, try this for a change of pace: Make some high­-fidelity wireframes. They aren’t the end­-all solution for every project, but there are a number of reasons that you should … [Read more...]

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