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5 Ways to Design Impactful Mobile User Experiences

Over 4.3 billion people use smartphones—and the shift towards mobile is worldwide. In mobile user experience (UX) design

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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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Putting Some Emotion into Your Design – Plutchik’s Wheel of Emotions

Emotional design is a big buzz word within the UX community. Designs which tap into the user’s emotions are considered t

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Apple’s Product Development Process – Inside the World’s Greatest Design Organization

Apple’s Product Development Process may be one of the most successful design processes ever implemented. With a valuatio

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Learn How to Use the Best Ideation Methods: Brainstorming, Braindumping, Brainwriting, and Brainwalking

Brainstorming is the most frequently practiced form of ideation. We recommend that you use it along with Brainwriting, B

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How to Handle Designer Bias When Designing for Accessibility

Having a good understanding of your users’ needs and wants is crucial in all design processes. Guessing at user needs is

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Grab Hiring Managers’ Attention with Your Design Portfolio Right From the Start

How do you ensure your design portfolio grabs the attention of potential employers from the get-go? Your hook holds the

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Stage 2 in the Design Thinking Process: Define the Problem and Interpret the Results

An integral part of the Design Thinking process is the definition of a meaningful and actionable problem statement, whic

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What is Ideation – and How to Prepare for Ideation Sessions

Ideation is the process where you generate ideas and solutions through sessions such as Sketching, Prototyping, Brainsto

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Rating Scales in UX Research: The Ultimate Guide

Picture this: you’re designing a new app or website and want to know how users feel about it, but you want a good way to

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What Should a UX Design Portfolio Contain?

Your UX design portfolio is the key that gets you a job interview, and it is therefore vital that you include everything

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Personas for Mobile UX Design

To design successful user experiences, it's critical to understand your users. One way to learn about your users is with

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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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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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How to Craft Effective Mobile Experiences: The Role of Content Strategy and UX Writing

People use their devices in search of content: to solve problems, get information, consume entertainment, or do work. Th

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What Does a UX Strategist Do?

Question time: Have you gained substantial experience in UX (user experience) design—as in, to the point where you’re co

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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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Shneiderman’s Eight Golden Rules Will Help You Design Better Interfaces

Follow Ben Shneiderman’s 'Eight Golden Rules of Interface Design' if you want to design great, productive and frustratio

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Preparing for a Design Job Interview

There are few things in life as critical to us as getting it right at interview. The design job of your dreams might as

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Stop the Generic Portfolio Trap! Design a Stand-Out Portfolio for Your UX/UI Niche: User Research

User research is indispensable—and without it, well... UX design is guesswork. When you’re a user researcher, you know t

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