Plan for Incubation Time: When Is Doing Nothing the Best Thing to Do?

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  Structure First: The Inverted Pyramid and Visual Organization

  This clip examines two principles that work hand in hand to make web content readable: the inverted pyramid approach to information order and the use of visual structure to help users scan efficiently. William Hudson, UX Strategist and Founder of Syntagm Ltd, describes the theoretical basis and prac

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  What Is Card Sorting?

  In this video, William Hudson, UX Strategist and Founder of Syntagm Ltd, introduces card sorting: what it is, where it comes from, and the broad range of problems it can help solve.Card sorting is a research technique in which participants organize a set of items into groups that make sense to them,

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  Design Accessible Navigation for Keyboards and Screen Readers

  Accessibility is often treated as a finishing touch, but for navigation, it belongs at the foundation. Menus are how users reach everything else on a site, so a menu that works only with a mouse quietly shuts out anyone who depends on a keyboard, a screen reader, or another form of assistive technol

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  The Scent of Information: Give Users the Confidence to Click

  William Hudson, UX Strategist and Founder of Syntagm Ltd, introduces the scent of information as a model for understanding how users navigate toward their goals, and sets out the principles for writing navigation links that strengthen that scent.Information Foraging and the Scent of InformationThe s

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  4 UI Design Tips Every Designer Needs to Know

  User interface (UI) design can make or break any digital product. A user often won’t even notice when they interact with a great UI. They feel the visual appeal and simply trust it. On the contrary, a bad UI design can prevent the user from interacting with a product intuitively or at all and lead t

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  How to Design Use Cases in UX

  Imagine a new mobile app or an e-commerce site gets launched; it looks great, sure, and it should be a hit because it at least looks like it’s got what it takes, but—drumroll—it tanks in the marketplace, all because people find it hard to complete even the simplest tasks. That’s rough, but—behind th

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  How to Become a Product Manager: Best Career Advice

  Pick any product and you’ll find that product management is vital to how successful it is—and product managers are who make sure that a product’s life cycle runs smoothly, and it means they know how to align strategy, vision, and user needs. Product managers split into multiple roles that have got u

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  Bad UX Exposed: A Comprehensive Guide to Avoiding Pitfalls

  In today’s vibrant digital design landscape, creating meaningful connections with users goes beyond offering innovative products or services. It leads us into the world of user experience design (or UX design). This critical factor shapes our interaction with the users and plays a big role in making

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  Understand the Various Types of Creativity

  When you want to be more creative, you’ll want to learn the techniques for creative thinking and understand the various forms of creativity and creative processes. This video will give you an overview of some of the different forms of creativity. For example, you’ll learn that there are two types of

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  Design Podcasts to Learn UX on the Go

  As digital designers, we know the bulk of our day is spent looking at screens. Give your eyes some rest, and tune into podcasts instead. They are a great way to stay updated, gain insights, be inspired or experience “A-ha” moments. The best part about podcasts is that unlike reading or watching vide

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