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What Skills Does a Newly Qualified Designer Need?
If you’re going to graduate this year or if you’re in your first job; you’ll be wondering what you can do to improve you
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The Lattice of Value and Product Adoption
Products must have value. It’s a key rule of design. If they don’t have value, people won’t buy them. It’s that simple.
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5 Tips for Happier Users – Giving Them Back Their Time
I’m busy. You’re busy. Everyone’s busy. It’s not necessarily how things were supposed to be when all the fantastic break
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5 Strong Ways to Improve the UX of Your Offerings
Investing in user experience is a good start. Understanding how to make the most from that investment takes time. The go
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Prospect Theory - The Economics of Design
Economists once assumed that every actor in an economic system would be rational. That people would calculate the value
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Value Networks and Why They Matter
We know, almost instinctively, that networks hold value. Human beings are by nature social creatures and our own social
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Loss Aversion Theory - The Economics of Design
If people were rational then the feelings invoked by losing something or gaining something (of equal value) ought to be
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The Illusion of Control – You Are Your Worst Enemy
Not everything in life is within our control. Believing that it is can be a serious handicap to getting things done in d
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Social Systems and Their Role in Product Adoption
People don’t often make their decisions by themselves with no input from others. We turn to family, friends, media, opin
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Four Assumptions for Usability Evaluations
Usability is a vital part of the user experience as a whole. It’s vital for UX design teams to be able to assess whether
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UX Tips for Better Textual Navigation
Helping your users find their way around your website is a vital part of delivering a strong user experience. It can be
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The Bandwagon Bias – The Dangers of Groupthink
Groupthink is dangerous to our objectivity. It prevents us from thinking for ourselves and making the best decisions. De
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Mandatory vs. Optional Lesson Items
Mandatory lessonsMandatory lessons are lessons that contain questions, and will thus help you earn course points. We hig
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How Do You Price Freelance Design Work?
There are a lot of ways to structure freelance pricing and it’s important to get it right. Charge too little and you won
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How Do You Give Feedback on a UX Project
You’re done your research and what you’ve found is going to require some dramatic changes. But how do you deliver your u
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5 Tips for Keeping Your Mockups Simple
If you’re finding that your mockups are becoming increasingly complex and no longer serving the purpose that you intend
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UX Tools: A/B Split Testing and Analytics Packages
A/B TestingA/B testing is where you test two variants of the same thing to see which your users prefer. So for example,
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Useful Survey Questions for User Feedback Surveys
User feedback surveys are a great tool for UX pros to find out what a wider-audience thinks of their product. Author/Co
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