How to embrace simplicity in design by eliminating distractions? Prioritize simplicity in your designs by focusing on: → Clarity→ Minimalism→ Use-centric Clarity is key: → Start with a clear vision of your product’s purpose→ Prioritize essential elements to convey your message effectively→ Eliminate unnecessary clutter that may divert your audience’s attention Minimalism matters: → Opt …
“I see AI as a tool. When designers master that tool, they can expand their ability.” — Paola Antonelli UX design is a field that requires continuous learning of the latest tools and technologies. If you are a UX designer and do not care about the evolution happening around you, then be ready to fall …
Prototyping is an iterative way of designing the draft version of your product that helps to validate your ideas without writing a single line of code.
“Ease of use may be invisible, but its absence sure isn’t.” — IBM
Ease of use describes how easily your users can use your product and perform a desired task.
Content drives the user experience of the product. Content helps to educate the users about the features of the product and guides them to interact with UI.
Consistency is a key principle of user experience (UX) design. A usable and user-friendly design is based on consistent experience.
Design helps in understanding complex information. The design allows you to present information in a way that is easy to understand for users.
Design is the beauty of turning constraints into advantages.– Aza Raskin. The UX designers often encounter different constraints while working on the design process.
“Design based on data brings us back to its essence & will leave out all unnecessary decoration.” – Jeanne De Bont Data and Design need to be integrated to enhance the user experience of your products. Design decisions based on data will keep you moving in the right direction throughout the design process.
Great user experience allows users to understand it and interact with it instantly.
“Good design is the most important way to differentiate ourselves from our competitors.” — Yun Jong Yong
Great user experience allows users to understand it and interact with it instantly.
“People ignore design that ignores people.” — Frank Chimero
The core principle of user experience is to keep the user first in your design process. A product that satisfies the needs of its users is a successful product and the users love to work on it.
“Don’t find customers for your products, find products for your customers.” – Seth Godin
“When UX doesn’t consider ALL users, shouldn’t it be known as “SOME User Experience” or… SUX?” — Billy Gregory A design that considers all users to define its usability measures is referred to as accessible design. By “all users” means, it also focuses on the needs of people with disabilities. Accessible design enables people with …
“Design’s fundamental role is problem solver” – Fast Company Let’s understand what Design is. A collection of art, images, and text combined to give a pleasant look, or design means something more?
“Always design a thing by considering it in its next larger context—a chair in a room, a room in a house, a house in an environment, an environment in a city plan.” — Eero Saarinen
“Every click is an opportunity to lose prospects.”— Bryan Eisenberg Clicking in a site, app, or product is a way to navigate between multiple views. By clicking on available UI elements, the users interact with your product and move from one page to the other to perform their desired tasks.
“There is nothing better than to see amazing colors in the right environment, it can change your whole mood.”— Morag Myerscough
“Bad design is smoke, while good design is a mirror.”— Juan Carlos Fernandez What is bad design? A design that misleads the user just like smoke can mislead someone. It obscures the right direction as the smoke does. The good design is reflective just like a mirror, and it displays the clear truth as a …
“Usability does not equate to a specific number of clicks, taps, swipes, pinches, flicks.” – John Morkes The usability of a design is the measure of ease by which a user can work on a product to achieve the desired goals efficiently.
“True interactivity is not about clicking on icons or downloading files, it’s about encouraging communication.” – Edwin Schlossberg An interactive design needs to be communicative. It should communicate with the user in a way that the user understands it fully while working on it.
“Perfection is achieved not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.” –Antoine de Saint-Exupery
“Designers are afraid of incremental design but to launch faster you need an incremental vision.”— Katie Dill An incremental vision allows you to deliver the output, in our case design, in small increments to your customer.
“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 an understanding of the problem, you work with your users to understand their needs, and …
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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 first one who will approve or reject your designs. It is not possible that you …
An agile UX design process allows you to use an iterative as well as incremental approach to deliver design to your customer.
“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 not satisfied with your efforts and you must go to extra mile to achieve the …
“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 might have several shortcomings. They do not want to change the way they are working …
