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In this piece, we’ll explain how to get started in UX with the least learning curve possible. We scoured the web and spoke with our own design team for the most straightforward advice. Check it out!

You can read everything you need to know about color theory collected into one easy-reference guide. Color Theory in Web UI Design is available to download now. Let’s take a peek inside. 

Design creative yet highly usable interfaces with these 5 patterns. Visual examples included.

Animation and motion in web design is proving to be the biggest thing in recent years. Everywhere you look, there is some hint of movement – or actual movement in the form of a video or animated tidbit. But how do you use it? Motion is more than just a good video clip or cartoon

Get quick advice on making the strongest first impression on users. See how good UX = solid conversions.

Now available: our pocket guide Designing UX with Developers. This introductory guide focuses on involving developers in the early wireframing and prototyping stages.   Take a look inside.

Skeuomorphism gives way to flat, and flat gives way to … something in between. One technique that’s taken hold in recent years is parallax scrolling — a visual effect that adds the illusion of depth to your site. In this piece, we’ll explain a few things you must consider if you want this technique to work

In Manhattan’s Little Italy neighborhood, a team of designers, developers and strategists craft innovative UX designs for some big name companies, such as Kind, Boxed and Daily Burn. This is Barrel — one of the top design agencies around and one of our favorite customers. They’ve been using UXPin on a daily basis to collaborate with

Traditional analytics provide you with an overall look at how your website or mobile application performs. Unfortunately, they fail to explain why certain actions are taking place. In this post, we’ll explain a more visual approach to analytics for better design decisions.

Following the success of our first standalone book on white space, we are expanding our discussion of white space with another new ebook. Take a look inside the Zen of White Space in UI Design: Space, Ratios, Minimalism.

Enterprise UX design is a whole different animal. If you’re designing in an enterprise, you need to navigate the organizational complexities inherent to large companies (not to mention any annoying legacy processes). If you’re designing for the enterprise, your company is probably at least mid-sized and distributed across multiple offices (perhaps even continents). You’re not just facing organizational complexity, but

Style Guides for Web UI Design: An Overview for Modern Designers gives a practical overview of styles guides for web design, pointing you in the right direction depending on your project needs. Let’s take a look inside the pocket guide. Style guides are essential to any design project, but they’re too frequently slapped together –

We’re proud to announce the latest expansion to our free downloadable library: Cards & Minimalism, a part of the Curated Collection of Web Design Techniques. Analyzing examples from real-world sites like Google, Microsoft, Trello, and Squarespace, this book explains the best practices, history, and pros/cons of two of the most popular design techniques around today.

We’ve all heard the old adage: test early and test often. Yet user testing can be a daunting task for some. After all, there’s gathering the participants, doing the actual test, documenting and analyzing the results. Not to mention, making sense of the feedback, figuring out what to prioritize before taking action. And that can

Photo credit: Jeremy Keith, Creative Commons   Responsive web design has exploded in popularity — thanks to the need to create sites that work across numerous devices. However, responsive design comes with some problems of its own. The issue of slow-to-load sites is now well documented. Let’s walk through some of the tricks designers are using to