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Designing the Future: Forging New Paths in UI Education
From the innovative spirit of Bauhaus to today's AI revolution, design education faces an age-old challenge: preparing students for an industry that's evolving faster than the classroom can keep up.
Design isn't Everything
When you browse the web, you'll often come across the sentence 'design is everything'. It is one of those cliche phrases that we've all grown so tired to read - not necessarily because they're not factual, but rather because it offers nothing more than an overly-simplistic statement.
Animation Styles to Learn in 2024
Animation isn't just about making things look pretty - it's about turning your website or app into something people actually want to use.
Motion (R)evolution: How Animation Changes the Design Process
Although animations are not a recent development, as they have been in use for quite some time, they now play a larger role in revamping the design process, ushering it into a new era by infusing life into narratives, and notably, enriching the user experience.
Should You Gamify Your UI?
Gamification has become a staple in UI/UX design, but it's important to understand that it's more than just flashy animations and cute characters.
Is The Client Always Right?
Being a full-time creative professional today has its own unique challenges. While securing work is undoubtedly a blessing, the clients who provide these opportunities can sometimes be quite demanding. This dynamic raises essential questions for both industry veterans and newcomers.
Designing Apps for Accessibility
Think about how convenient our lives have become: with a simple tap on an app, we can connect to people all over the world! With our bustling lives, it can be easy to overlook just how nice it is to live in a modern, technological society. But the same can't be said for everyone - many people have very different experiences with technology. Sometimes, the same things that make our lives easier are a barrier for others.
When Localization Goes Wrong (And How to Avoid It)
In an era of unprecedented global connectivity, the demand for app localization has grown exponentially. It's not merely a trend, but an essential strategy that can propel your app to success… or to its demise. Imagine your app expanding its reach across borders: bridging cultural gaps and resonating with users worldwide. That’s what (good) app localization is all about.
The Soft Skills of Exceptional UX Professionals
As UX designers, we’re no strangers to honing our hard skills—the technical know-how that gets your foot in the door. But what about the softer side of things? The non specialized intangibles that not only land you the job but keep you thriving in it. These are the skills that breathe life into your designs, empower your team to thrive, and ensure the longevity of your career.
Spruce Up Your Designs with Micro-Interactions
Micro-interactions are the unnoticed-yet-important events that play a crucial role in enhancing usability, fostering emotional bonds as well as offering guidance to users in digital interfaces.
Balancing Between Creativity and Ethics
Design can be a catalyst for positive change or it can be a means to drive the worst tendencies of society.
Design Ego: The Good, The Bad & The Ugly
Design ego is the delicate interplay of a designer's confidence, self-assurance, and attachment to their creative vision that shapes their approach to innovation and collaboration.
Everything We Learned Designing Software for Children
In the context of our research study, our target audience were children who were afraid of traveling on their own. Due to the broad scope of our potential audience, it meant that we had to design a user experience that clicked with both the little ones and the big kids in this group.
Get Started with Animation: Essential Tips for Designers
Animation has become increasingly relevant in digital design, requiring designers to expand their skill sets to meet market demands. In this article, we will explore fundamental principles of animation that every designer should know before diving into motion graphics.
AI and The Growing Need for Authenticity in Design
The rapid development of this technology has raised doubts among design professionals, prompting ongoing discussions about whether AI-generated design can ever replace human-made design and whether peaceful coexistence is feasible.
Move over GIF: Lottie and Other Animation Formats are Taking Charge
Because of all its perks, Lottie files are taking over the web. The format is being used by over 250,000 companies, and it's integrated with some of the most popular codeless web publishing platforms, such as WordPress and Webflow.
Animation in Phase: First Look
Our devs have been cooking up our core interaction engine for a while now, making sure that it's also easy to use for UX design and has full animation support. It's fully browser-based and runs smoothly from any device.
Good Design Is Never (Too) Obvious
Have you ever wondered why design that's widely considered to be good never stands out too much? And why, on the contrary, bad design stands out like a sore thumb?
How to Communicate Remotely
Remote work is not a new way of collaboration between people though, but it has its own features, which specialists should know. I have collected the best tools for each aspect of remote work that will be helpful for people with little or no remote work experience.
If Only I Had Done It Earlier
It's a familiar feeling that often lingers around regrets. I'm sure you've experienced it too. But why did we feel this way? Why didn't we do "it" sooner?
Fail, Reflect, Iterate: Rethinking the Design Process
The Revamped Double Diamond is a design process framework based on the Design Council’s Double Diamond. It aims at making sense of the design process and providing guidance and clarity in order to enable people to tackle design challenges.
Biomimicry: When Design Copies Nature
What surprises the most about biomimicry is how long it took us humans to resort to an approach that would analyse and emulate nature’s models and systems, considering the period of time over which nature has had time to develop and consolidate its processes.
The Problem With Average Solutions
We humans tend to notice things which are weird and not the ones which come as normal or usual. It is because evolution trained us to notice the unusual so we can survive in unknown situations.
The Things We Keep In Our Minds
I used to suppress my emotions. But I learned the hard way that keeping my emotions bottled up would damage myself even more.
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