A UX competitive analysis is a crucial part of UX research. It’s an opportunity for designers to leverage what works, avoid what doesn’t, and identify gaps to gain a competitive advantage.
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How to Create an Effective App Design Process
Without the right app design steps in place, it’s like rolling a dice and wishing for a six. Sure, the app you unleash into the marketplace may be a hit. More likely, it risks sinking without a trace because it didn’t appeal to the target audience and didn’t work the way it should. Effective mobile
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Best Practices for Remote Teams: 12 Principles to Guide Your Everyday Work
Best practices from 10 years as a remote designer.
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What Is a Mockup — The Final Layer of UI Design
Designing UI mockups is a critical part of the design process. They’re a visual representation or screenshot of how the final website or product will look. It’s the first time designers get to see their ideas brought to life with color, typography, and content. By the end of this article, you’ll understand what a UI
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UX Research Cheat Sheet
UX research is the bedrock for any design project. UX designers and researchers must gather insights about the market, competitors, and, most importantly, users. This research continues throughout the design process as designers test ideas and gather feedback from participants and stakeholders. To be a good UX designer, you must be inquisitive and an active
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How to Improve Feedback Loops in Design Process
Key Takeaways Feedback loops have three stages, that is action, effect, and feedback. They are used to understand users, validate design ideas, build information architecture, as well as improve usability. Feedback loops solve problems and answer questions, but they can be either positive (increase an input action) or negative (decrease an input action). Understanding feedback
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6 Web Form Design Examples and Best Practices
Practical tips and examples for well-designed forms that convert.
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Join “Design Value Conference” & Learn from PayPal, SiriusXM, Uber Eats’ Leaders
Design is much more than creating the look and feel of a product, isn’t it? It has a real impact on the people, processes, and business. We gathered top specialists who have influenced the way things are run in their companies to tell you their stories. It’s all for free! Sign up and join us
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React Native vs. Reactjs – Understand the Difference
Understanding the difference between ReactJS vs. React Native helps designers communicate with engineers better, avoid costly technical issues, and minimize friction during design handoffs. Designers don’t have to learn code or get into the technical details of Javascript or React to understand the fundamental differences between the two. The most significant difference that concerns designers
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Quick Guide to Inclusive Web Design
Key Takeaways: Inclusive design aims at taking perspectives of diverse user groups when designing a digital product. It considers temporary and situational factors that may play into user’s experience of a product. There are 8 principles of inclusive web design that designers may use when creating inclusive experiences. One of an exercise for designing inclusive
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Sustainable Web Design: Can You Lower Design’s Environmental Impact?
Sustainable web design is a growing movement as organizations look for every opportunity to reduce emissions and minimize their carbon footprint. If you follow responsive web design and mobile-first practices, you’re already on the way to reducing your environmental impact with greener digital products. According to a March 2020 BBC article, Why your internet habits
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Responsive Design: Best Practices & Examples
Get best practices for everyday responsive design. Tips illustrated with thorough analysis of 3 examples.
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Design ROI – How to Calculate the Value of Design Investments?
Due to its subjective nature, UX design is not simple to quantify and measure. UX also indirectly affects other areas of the business, namely sales, marketing, support, and engineering. But, for UX design to succeed within an organization, design leadership must demonstrate the value of its design investments. A 2016 report from Forrester, The Six
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Coding is Designing
Designers and developers collaborate for a common cause–to build products and experiences their customers want or need. Their shared purpose is to serve their users. To achieve this common purpose and collaborate effectively, designers and developers should understand the other’s discipline. Designers don’t have to become coders, but understanding the basics of code and its
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Top UX Design Blogs That Will Inspire You
Whether you’re an experienced UX designer or brand new to the industry, there’s always something to learn. And what better way to do that than reading free quality online design resources. Yes! In this digital age of free information, quality UX design blogs can provide you with a lot of knowledge and help you get
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