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Rosie Allabarton shares 4 phrases successful designers never use. Know the right mindsets required for succeeding as a designer.

Responsive designer Ben Gremillion weighs in on the pros and cons of frameworks. See if you should learn CSS frameworks, or roll your own.

See best practices for improving the feasibility of your designs. Collaborative tips for wireframing, prototyping, and usability testing.

UX Designer and startup coach Sarah Harrison explains how to validate business ideas with quick UX techniques.

Learn the four UX document types that will allow you to fully map out your users and their needs.

Free e-book that teaches you how to be an indispensable designer and influence your entire organization. Six of our best articles collected in one place.

Quickly get up and running with a style guide with these three techniques. We take a look at examples from Adobe and Facebook.

Learn how feedback can help you build a stronger bond with your developers and your users.

Know the 3 useful types of documentation that help you reuse existing designs. Written by “Web Anatomy” author and designer Robert Hoekman Jr.

Is your design process working against you? UX expert Robert Hoekman Jr. explains how freeing yourself from process might be the best solution.

Know techniques for communicating clearly through design. Written by UX designer Jessica Lowry.

Visualizing data comes up more and more in my work as a UX Designer. Data can be visually striking, but it needs a language and story to follow in order to be effective. Over the years, the art of storytelling has become the structure I use as the foundation of my designs. Every good story

Working as a UX designer in the enterprise world can be challenging, but the experience can also be fun and rewarding. If you enjoy solving complex problems and function well in an environment with well-defined boundaries, enterprise UX could be right up your alley. Having worked on a design team in a large corporation for

Traditionally, there’s been a divide between designers and engineers who are separated by either a wall or floors. It’s created a tension where both sides are constantly infuriated with one another. Designers feel that developers don’t adhere to what they designed and the developers think designers don’t understand that some things just can’t be implemented.