UI/UX designers are in growing demand in today’s tech heavy world. And they should be! User interface and user experience is everything your audience sees and engages with on a digital platform, so it’s pretty important. A digital experience is absolutely nothing without design, and a bad design can ruin everything.
http://www.boostlabs.com/ui-ux-is-everything-you-need/
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/
So you have a million-dollar app idea? That's awesome! Oh, did you say you have kickass programming skills to turn it into a reality, too? Amazing! Now, all there is left to do is to design your app to look aesthetically pleasing and make it so easy to use that a five-year-old would have no problem navigating through it.
https://uk.finance.yahoo.com/news/crash-course-ux-ui-design-090000714.html/
The user experience (UX) is all-important in the modern business sphere. The experience your target audience has from the moment they click on your website to (ideally) making a purchase creates impressions. Your website should guide users smoothly along the buyer journey. It should engage with them through meaningful interactions. If your website falls short of expectations, you will lose them to your competitors.
One of the best ways to decrease your bounce rate and boost conversions is to avoid these six common UX mistakes.
Learn about them here:
https://usabilitygeek.com/most-common-ux-mistakes/
Many organizations are taking steps towards becoming compliant with the upcoming EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) before the May 2018 compliance date. But only a few are considering user experience (UX) aspects of GDPR compliance, which is of paramount importance in order to gain a competitive edge. A sound UX strategy tied with GDPR compliance will enable organizations to use personal data privacy as a differentiator in the market to attract new customers and retain existing ones. It is necessary to consider privacy as a key ingredient of your UX at the initial stages itself.
This webinar will cover best practices when applying GDPR into your product experience and user journey with the examples such as:
- User onboarding
- Privacy by design
- Managing user consent
- Adopting your software and user interfaces to ensure GDPR compliance
https://wso2.com/library/webinars/2018/05/the-impact-of-gdpr-on-user-experience/
Since digitization, prospective customers of a company or brand have better access to social media and online content and therefore good opinions from existing customers can sway their opinions and in turn affect sales. Today, customer experience has become imperative to scale business growth in a competitive economy. As of now, companies are heavily investing in technologies such as conversational chatbot, use of virtual reality in retail, machine learning to process customer feedback to tailor their strategies.
https://customer-experience-management.cioreview.com/news/the-driving-force-behind-customer-experience-nid-25775-cid-118.html/
We’ve all overheard conversations, walking down hip streets of the world’s tech capitals, discussions about the great ‘UX’ of a product, or the poor ‘UI’ of a website. Is it a secret language you will never be privy to? Are these people just using slang to look cool?
Well, ok probably yes to the latter, but a determinate NO to the rest. Read on to learn what these terms mean, which jobs are better paid, and how to become a UX designer or UI designer.
https://careerfoundry.com/en/blog/ux-design/the-difference-between-ux-and-ui-design-a-laymans-guide/
Within the digital realm, faster is almost always synonymous with better. Whether its an internet browser boasting faster loading speeds or a new mobile app that offers a quicker way to order food, when it comes to our digital experiences we want our goals completed as soon as possible.
In the UX world, this holds true often enough. Designers dedicate so much of the SDLC to streamlining user flows or simplifying processes, usually with the intent of making things easier, friendlier, and faster.
So while most designers know there are exceptions to the ‘faster = better UX’ rule (the benefits of injecting friction to an experience are well-documented), fewer grasp the role that speed, and more fundamentally, time, plays in an experience.
In fact, timing is so crucial to UX design that the usability gurus at NNG have crafted an entire ‘powers of ten’-based system for it.
So how can you ensure an experience you are crafting has user-friendly timing? How do you know if a digital product is responding too slow (or, more intriguingly, too fast?) And how can you design experiences while keeping timing in mind?
Find out more.
https://usabilitygeek.com/start-designing-with-perfect-timing/
For almost a decade, we’ve talked about wanting to modernize enterprise software user interfaces (UI) to match consumer software, but we’ve gone about it the wrong way. The modernization of UI was proposed as a solution to meet the increased expectations that enterprise software should be as simple to use and nice to navigate as the applications we use at home from any device. But investing in software UI that merely looks beautiful is a waste of time and resources.
https://diginomica.com/2018/09/05/software-will-never-be-beautiful-its-the-experience-that-counts/
"A few days ago was my 2 year anniversary at StatMuse (visit us) and subsequently also my 2 year anniversary as a UX/UI Designer! Although I am happy that we’ve shipped multiple responsive websites, a brand new iOS app, and a some platform bots, I do recognize that I’ve made a whole bunch of mistakes along the way."
https://uxdesign.cc/shhh-a-ux-designers-mistakes-efa20d93fcf7/
