“If you can design one thing, you can design everything.” — Massimo Vignelli That’s true. When you are designing an experience, you are following a process. That process is the guideline for you to complete the design. When you start designing, you get …
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What are Infographics? An infographic is a visual representation of a story. You have something to tell your audience, you can do it more effectively using infographics. It is a combination of imagery, graphical data, and text. Its purpose is …
What is User Experience Design? User Experience is the value that you provide to your users when they are using your product. “User Experience Design (UXD or UED) is the process of enhancing user satisfaction with a product by improving …
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“Rule of thumb for UX: More options more problems.” — Scott Belsky Hick’s law states that the more options available for the users, the longer time it will take for them to make a decision.
“We tend to be distracted by the voices in our own heads telling us what the design should look like.” — Michael Bierut It’s very natural that when you are designing your product, you feel like a user of your product. You are the …
A user interacts with different UI controls while working on a product. Adding a good user experience for a Date picker control is as important as for any other input control on UI.
An agile UX design process allows you to use an iterative as well as incremental approach to deliver design to your customer.
A very common error that you come across while working on the internet is the ‘404 error’ or ‘Page not found’ error. This appears when you enter a web address that does not exist. The message that appears on this …
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“Your most unhappy customers are your greatest source of learning.” — Bill Gates You are designing for your customers. You get their requirements and work hard to meet them. Sometimes your customers become very happy to see the outcome. At times, they are …
The user interface is intended to make everything easy to understand for the user. Whether it is an image, a label, or a text message, a user who comes to use your design should easily understand its meaning and be …
Pagination is an important visual design element. Whether we talk about desktop, mobile, or web-based systems, pagination UI is needed to navigate content that is displayed on multiple pages. Below is a collection of creative pagination UI styles that can …
“Asking users to adopt new behaviors or even modify their existing behaviors is very, very hard.” — Khoi Vinh Change is difficult to accept, but is always for good. When users continuously use a product, they become comfortable with it, although it …
“Design is everywhere. From the dress you’re wearing to the smartphone you’re holding, it’s design.”— Samadara Ginige That’s very true! Design is everywhere. Design is not limited to the digital world, instead, everything we use in our daily lives is …
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A good UX designer always looks forward to learning and sharing related knowledge with other designers. The below list contains a few amazing UX links that I believe will enhance your UX understanding and help you to grow in the …
“Look at usual things with unusual eyes.”–Vico Magistretti Being a UX designer, you must have an eye for unusually looking at things. Just look at the text editor you are using right now. Can you feel that a few things …
“Do not seek praise, seek criticism.”–Paul Arden Everyone loves to be praised for his or her good work. It feels really good when someone appreciates you, your work, or your actions.
“Whitespace is like air: it is necessary for design to breathe.” –Wojciech Zieliński Whitespace or empty space is an important entity in our life. Just look around you. Your living room is filled with different items. Within four walls, there …
Forms provide several controls that make it easier to collect input from users. Using the right control at the right place is a challenge while designing forms. For example, selecting a checkbox vs toggle switch requires a careful decision. A …
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A list of best design articles published during June – July, 2018 is presented below.
“Everything that needs to be said has already been said. But since no one was listening, everything must be said again.” — André Gide This quote can be well understood in terms of UX design concepts. Just tell me, how many times …
“Testing with one user early in the project is better than testing with 50 near the end.” — Steve Krug User testing helps immensely to improve your design decisions. Its importance cannot be neglected in the design process. The design process that …
Basic search is based on a single parameter whereas Advanced search is a way to find something from large content by defining criteria using multiple parameters
“Usability is not a quality that can be spread out to cover a poor design like a layer of peanut butter.” — Clayton H Lewis What is usability? Usability is the ease of use by which users can work on a product …
Integrating UX design within Agile is an important topic and several good articles and guides mentioning different approaches are available on internet. Many individuals and organizations are taking guidance from them.
“There’s a big difference between making a simple product & making a product simple.”— Des Traynor A simple product provides a few common and simple features. A product created for a limited scope and providing a set of functionality within …
“A user interface is like a joke. If you have to explain it, it’s not that good”. — Martin Leblanc When someone tells you a joke, they are expecting a laugh in response. And it feels odd if you don’t understand the joke …
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My connection to Medium as a writer is not much older. Though I always liked to research UX articles and read them, but I started writing on Medium from last few months. No doubt, I found Medium the best platform for both …
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“When I design, I work very hard to make the interface experience feel like there’s a human on the other end, not a computer. “— Aarron Walter A design should be created to fulfill its users’ needs. The first step of …
During the months of April and May, some of my Design posts are getting very positive responses from readers. I want to share titbits from a few of them in this article so that you can access all your favorite …
