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The 5 Stages in the Design Thinking Process
Design thinking is a methodology that provides a solution-based approach to solving problems. It’s extremely useful when
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What is Design Thinking and Why Is It So Popular?
Design Thinking is not an exclusive property of designers—all great innovators in literature, art, music, science, engin
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Personas – A Simple Introduction
Personas are fictional characters, which you create based upon your research to represent the different user types that
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What is Interaction Design?
Interaction design is an important component within the giant umbrella of user experience (UX) design. In this article,
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UX Design Conferences You Can’t Miss in 2025
Whether you're a beginner taking your first steps or an established professional looking to stay on top of your game, UX
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Why Personas Don’t Represent Every User
Personas give focus—they help you make decisions and design products and services that delight users. These decisions ty
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How Personas Shape Stronger Design Decisions
Why bother with personas? Why not "users"? Because the way you see someone shapes the way you design for them. We are ac
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How to Get Started with Affinity Diagrams
Affinity diagramming is almost too good to be true. Write on some sticky notes, arrange them, and…that’s it. But don’t l
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User Experience (UX) Design

What is Interaction Design?
Interaction design is an important component within the giant umbrella of user experience (UX) design. In this article,
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Human-Computer Interaction (HCI)

How to Use Mental Models in UX Design
Mental models are important in Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) and interaction design because they provide information
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A Brief History of Human-Computer Interaction
Human Computer Interaction is the academic discipline that most of us think of as UI design. It focuses on the way that
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Usability

User Interface Design Guidelines: 10 Rules of Thumb
Learn to design with your user’s needs and expectations in mind by applying Jakob Nielsen and Rolf Molich’s Ten User Int
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The 7 Factors that Influence User Experience
User Experience (UX) is critical to the success or failure of a product in the market but what do we mean by UX? All too
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KISS (Keep it Simple, Stupid) - A Design Principle
It was Albert Einstein who said; “If you can’t explain it, you don’t understand it well enough.” Though it is often mis-
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User Interface (UI) Design

10 Great Sites for UI Design Patterns
You don’t want to spend your whole life redesigning the wheel, do you? No, neither do we. If you are looking for a desig
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User Interface Design Guidelines: 10 Rules of Thumb
Learn to design with your user’s needs and expectations in mind by applying Jakob Nielsen and Rolf Molich’s Ten User Int
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Repetition, Pattern, and Rhythm
Let’s look at three subjects that, at first glance, may strike you as being incredibly basic and self-explanatory. Howev
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Design Thinking (DT)

What is Design Thinking and Why Is It So Popular?
Design Thinking is not an exclusive property of designers—all great innovators in literature, art, music, science, engin
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Personas – A Simple Introduction
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