Design Tip #15 – Navigation Bar
Don’t use multiple colors in the bottom navigation bar. It will make it harder to find out the selected icon and navigate between options.
8 Basic Steps to Create a Design System
An organization’s success is directly linked to its design system since it enforces a shared language and consistent experience throughout the products.
12 Best Practices for Sign-Up and Login Page Design
From users’ perspective, the onboarding experience of a website or app is as important as other features. Designing registration and login pages is considered a simple task among UX designers and sometimes they do not pay much attention to this.
6 Skills to Become a Successful UX Designer
A UX designer defines how a user feels while interacting with your digital product. This post describes skills that require to become a passionate UX designer.
Design Tip #12 – Use Divider to Group Related Items on UI
Don’t use dividers to separate individual items, instead use dividers to group items. Find more UI design tips here.
Learn UX Design By Industry Leaders At IDF
The importance of UX design has increased tremendously over the past few decades. However, to keep your products updated and leading the market, it is important to conduct necessary redesign.
4 Fundamentals of UX Design that Impact SEO
SEO practices make it possible to rank your site higher in search results. Providing an engaging user experience results in user satisfaction and retention.
Why UX Redesign is Important? | How to Conduct UX Redesign?
With latest trends of UI, UX and technology it is essential to keep your product up to date. Redesign of product UX is an important action to consider.
Best Practices for UX Design Deliverables – Part II
To read the initial part of the article, go to Part I. A UX designer is the person who defines the user experience of a product. To provide a better user experience, as a UX designer, you follow the design …
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Every Click is An Opportunity to Lose Prospects
“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 …
Colors in Design
“There is nothing better than to see amazing colors in the right environment, it can change your whole mood.”— Morag Myerscough
24 Popular Medium Design Articles of 2019
1. Introducing Mercury OS by Jason Yuan “Nine months ago, I set out to invent a new way of interfacing with our devices, armed with only a single metaphor: Mercury. I wanted to create something that users could move through without …
25% OFF UX Courses: A Gift For You On BLACK FRIDAY
This Black Friday weekend, Interaction Design Foundation is offering 25% off on your annual membership.
Design is Communication
“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 …
Consistency – The Quality of A Successful UX Designer
Becoming a successful UX designer is based on many factors together. Out of those, Consistency is an attribute that helps you maintain every factor in a balanced form. Being consistent in your work and in your daily routine makes it easier for …
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If you can design one thing, you can design everything
“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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More Options, More Problems
“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.
Understand Your Users
“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 …
An Analysis of 18 Creative 404 Error Pages of Popular Websites
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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6 Creative Pagination UI Styles
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 …
Adopting Innovation in UX
“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, so Take Inspiration from Your Surroundings
“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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Popular Design Links — Aug & Sep 2018
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
“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
“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.
Importance of Whitespace in Design
“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 …
Checkbox vs Toggle Switch: 7 Use-Cases of Forms Design
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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It may have already been “said”, but not by ME!
“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 …
User Testing at Initial Design Stages
“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 …