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From Portfolio to People: How to Leverage Your Work to Create Lasting Relationships in the UX World

Your next UX gig might not be found on a job board, but at a coffee shop, local meetup or social media post. In UX design, while a strong portfolio is a prerequisite, your connections can be the secret ingredient to your success. They open doors to hidden job opportunities, provide valuable insights

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7 Bad UI Design Examples You Can Learn From

Have you ever clicked on a button that didn't respond? Or have you found yourself lost in a maze of confusing menus? You’re not alone! Such interactions lead to users' frustration and missed business opportunities. If you’re a designer, developer, or business owner, you’ll want to understand wh

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Accessibility Testing Essentials: Get the Real, Valuable Picture by Testing in Context

In this lesson, you'll discover why accessibility testing is essential for validating your design work and how it differs from both usability testing and code-level QA. You'll examine the critical importance of testing with users' own devices and configurations in their natural environments, rather

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Break Biases and Design Beyond What You Can See

Designers and developers automatically bring visual assumptions to their work, such as prioritizing map displays over search results. Alternative approaches are essential for users who don't interact visually with these services.In this interview, Frank Spillers speaks with a blind user about the ac

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The Future of Design—What’s Next?

The design profession is evolving, and it’s up to designers to shape their future. Traditional design was focused on aesthetics, the visual appeal. Up until the 20th century, generally designers were not included in strategic decisions; they were thought of as simply producers, as craftspeople. Now,

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The Nervous Voice in Your Head? It’s Costing You Promotions

You're in the review meeting and the team lead just asked a question about the project you've been refining for weeks. You know the answer. But when you open your mouth, nothing comes out. Meanwhile, your mind is saying: Wait, double-check, make sure, don't risk it. Then, someone else jumps in and a

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Design for Everyone: Understand Vision, Hearing, Cognition, and Motor Skills

In this video, Frank Spillers, Service Designer and Founder and CEO of Experience Dynamics, walks you through how color contrast, captions, cognitive differences, and motor limitations can change the way people use websites and apps, and explains why creating disability personas and testing across a

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Triple Your Impact: Better Accessibility Means Better Usability and SEO

In this video, Frank Spillers, Service Designer and Founder and CEO of Experience Dynamics, explains how making content screen-reader friendly through clearer structure and meaningful text, like headings, alt text, captions, and transcripts, can reduce “junk” for users while also strengthening SEO s

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How to Plan for Creativity: Effective Time-Management Plans for Your Large-Scale Creative Projects

It’s a recipe for disaster if you simply add a step entitled "be creative" into a linear plan for a creative work project. Likewise, if you just wait for that heavenly spark of insight to come, you may be in for a not-so-great, long-drawn-out surprise. In this video, you’ll learn three best practice

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Ideation Methods: Bad Ideas

Sometimes, the pressure to come up with a good idea can make you completely stuck in your ideation. Your critical sense gets the better of you, and all your ideas seem like bad ones. What if instead of trying to think of a good idea you deliberately set out to think up a bad idea or a silly one? In

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10 Reasons To Become A UX Designer

Are you intrigued by UX (User Experience) design? Is it something you’ve simply read about, dabbled with, or considered taking up full-time? UX design is a dynamic, interdisciplinary industry that’s constantly evolving. There is no better time to become a UX designer—global demand, countless job opp

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UI Animation—How to Apply Disney’s 12 Principles of Animation to UI Design

UI Animation is a valuable skill in a designer’s toolkit. You can use UI animation effects to reduce cognitive load and add personality and charm to an interface. More importantly, animation will help you overcome language and cultural barriers in interaction design. However, if done poorly, animati

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Top 10 UI Trends Every Designer Should Know

People get easily bored with trends, and every few years, the pendulum swings from one way to another. We have all seen the rise and fall of iconic fashion pieces or art movements. The same thing happens in User Interface (UI) design. UI trends go from interfaces that mimic real-world objects to sup

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How to Create Design Personas: A Step-by-Step Guide for Beginners

Why do some designs feel intuitive while others feel frustrating? When you design without user research, you’re designing for yourself, not them. Personas are research-based representations of real users—without them, we default to our assumptions and create products, services and experiences that f

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How to Design Notifications for Better Mobile Interactions

Notification design is critical in the age of mobile interruption. It’s become a key part of mobile user experience (UX) design. Here, we look at how designers can create transparent interactions that add value to people's digital exchanges instead of nuisances that distract the user or create menta

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5 Ways to Incorporate Affordances in User Interfaces

Affordances define what people can do with your product. Here, we look at the different areas where you can incorporate affordances in mobile UX design.Visual perception psychologist James Gibson introduced the concept of affordances to describe the relationship between organisms and their environme

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Wake Up and Take a Shower with Alan Dix – and Learn to Nurture Your Creative Ideas

Did you ever think that you were going to wake up and take a shower with professor and distinguished author Alan Dix? No… Well, today is that day. Unfortunately, or fortunately, this video is not all about being naked with Alan. Rooted in this particular morning Alan will explain how he nurtures and

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10 UI Designer Portfolio Examples

A UI (User Interface) design portfolio showcases vital things—a designer's top projects, creativity, and problem-solving skills. It proves a designer’s ability to create engaging, intuitive digital spaces and travels ahead to speak for that designer as a kind of “brand ambassador” for what potential

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How to Use Your Existing Knowledge to Come Up with New Ideas

In this video, you’ll learn how you can use bottom-up generation of a new problem-specific understanding alongside a top-down application of your prior knowledge when you generate ideas and solve problems. And, yes, we will also see how an office cleaner and Alan were able to develop a just-in-tim

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Want to Reach Your Full UX Potential? Find a Mentor!

There are many ways to advance your UX career and get you to that next step you’ve dreamt of. Read UX books, enroll in courses, search the internet for design challenges and a UX community. However, it’s possible that even after trying all these out, you feel something is missing. You can have an ex

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