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/
Imagine that in today’s world we only had two types of cars, Ford and Chevy. All the Ford cars only work on Ford roads, and all the Chevy cars only work on Chevy roads. If you want to open a business, you have to build one for each type of road. That’s pretty much what our current smartphone app ecosystem is like right now, and it really makes no sense. Hopefully, things won’t stay like this for much longer.
http://pocketnow.com/2018/02/20/design-os-for-future/
Books are a popular choice if you want to learn user experience (UX) design or improve your UX skills.
UX design is vital for any designer to have skills in, and not just to create apps or websites, but now UX design includes voice-controlled devices like the Apple HomePod, Google Home and Amazon Echo – just check out the UX design trends of 2018 to see more on that.
https://www.digitalartsonline.co.uk/features/interactive-design/7-best-ux-design-books-help-you-learn-master-ux/
Learning to be a top-notch web designer isn’t just about mastering code. Users don’t see raw HTML and JavaScript when they visit a website or start an app. No, users focus on how the site looks, how to get around, how fast the pages or features load and how intuitively it all operates.
https://thenextweb.com/offers/2018/02/14/what-makes-web-users-happy-enroll-and-learn-in-this-rigorous-design-bootcamp/
In January, Facebook announced major and ongoing changes to its news feed to improve the user experience – and people’s lives. But will it work? And what does it mean for brands?
https://uk.kantar.com/tech/social/2018/what-do-the-facebook-news-feed-changes-really-mean/
People are now demanding more frequent and engaging transactions as technology continues to evolve and push the legal profession to become more efficient and digitised. A whole new generation are now accustomed to the seamless user experience they get when they log on to social media and when banking online, so it goes without saying that they now expect the same from their lawyers.
https://www.lexology.com/library/detail.aspx?g=e33aeb5d-5a2a-4442-b8bb-c770dd6b090d/
Mobile first design is not a new concept.
It has been around for more than a decade and it’s used to refer to the strategy of designing and developing digital experiences for mobile devices at the very start of a project; rather than the traditional approach of first designing for desktop and consequently for mobile.
However, the term is possibly more relevant in the business world today than ever before.
https://www.marketingtechnews.net/news/2018/feb/15/prioritising-mobile-first-design/
“Does Anyone’s Spotify Look Like This?” wrote a plaintive poster on Spotify’s Android support forums a couple of weeks ago, with screenshots showing what appears to be a stripped-down, spacier user interface for the streaming service’s mobile app.
http://musically.com/2018/02/15/spotify-on-demand-playlists-free/
In a move to make surfing the Web a less "frustrating" experience, one of the world's most popular Web browsers will today start to block all advertisements on sites that display ads deemed intrusive.
https://www.itweb.co.za/content/wbrpOqgPkjbvDLZn/
Following multinational technology company, Google's announcement in June last year about a new feature that will remove "intrusive" ads, users can now finally say goodbye to these ads, reports The Verge.
https://www.iol.co.za/business-report/technology/google-will-finally-block-intrusive-and-annoying-ads-13284803/
