When a small-to-mid-sized business first implements a new technology, it’s often only one person inside the company who owns the entire product. In the early ’90s when the web was in its infancy, my role included everything from copywriting to graphic design, coding, and basically everything that was needed to create a website. There wasn’t nearly the same focus or variety of roles working on the web as exists today, so I was the only one who knew how to do it.
https://venturebeat.com/2018/03/21/conversational-commerce-is-no-longer-a-one-person-show/
As a product designer (UX/UI) and college dropout, I’ve had to develop my own tools and resources in my pursuit to become a UX/UI design expert.
Now more then ever, with the right attitude, anyone can learn to become a product designer (UX/UI) using free online resources and practicing it religiously.
Though it wasn’t easy, with the help of amazing online resources I’ve managed to land my first design job and enjoying a thriving design career ever since. And I love it.
Check out these 16 free online resources I’ve discovered that have helped me along my journey to becoming a product designer (UX/UI).
https://blog.prototypr.io/top-16-free-online-resources-for-ui-and-ux-designers-2018-ca82c5ebf571/
The calculator isn’t the most beautiful thing in the world but when you press your fingers into its buttons, it can do some wondrous things. Or take Crocs — the butt of many jokes — but the first choice of shoes for people working in the medical profession. That’s the thing when it comes to the user experience vs. usability debate: products don’t have to be beautiful to offer a great user experience.
https://uxplanet.org/when-good-design-goes-bad-examples-of-ugly-ui-with-great-ux-48d72c7d1601/
Mobile animation can make a web or mobile app pop. Learn these 5 must know UI animations and play with our 3 free downloadable examples.
https://uxplanet.org/prototyping-mobile-ui-animations-examples-free-downloads-26ba0e0b2073/
As UI designers, we are confronted with design problems every day. Knowing how best to tackle these issues means investigating, analysing, testing and prototyping solutions until we get the answer that fits our user’s needs.
UI design is less about making something look attractive (although it helps) and more knowing how to create a valid path from idea to execution, backed with statistics and evidence, for the benefit of our users. Otherwise, you are shooting in the dark and crossing your fingers you hit the bullseye. Thankfully, instead of relying on blind faith, there exist usability heuristics to steadily guide UI designers and keep us on the right track.
https://usabilitygeek.com/usability-heuristics-ui-designers-know/
I'am loving the strides that Medium takes in improving its overall design and UI, to bring the best possible user experience to its ever-increasing audience. The number of stories flooding the system never seems to slow down, and curating content becomes harder with each passing day.
https://uxplanet.org/4-things-i-love-about-mediums-ux-ui-fb1a26beb496/
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