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
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Designers from all over the world are gathering in Amsterdam this winter for three days of talks, workshops, and networking, all culminating in a massive cocktail party in one of the city’s historic church venues. Awwwards has been a partner of ours for years, and their conference is one of our favorites in web design.
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
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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.
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Photo credit: Square Cash One of the biggest trends of the 2010s is still evolving today. Flat design, which started to gain momentum in 2013, is still currently one of the most used – and talked about – techniques in web design. But how has it sustained itself for so long? What is it about
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In this tutorial, we dive deep into easily prototyping a navigational drawer.
Years ago, when I started practicing web design, we spent our time trying to stand out from a sea of drab pages with just a dozen HTML tags. Today, contemporary design work is made up of increasingly specialized practitioners solving problems we never dreamed of those many years ago. Designers have had to reinvent ourselves
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Photo Credit: David Iliff, Creative Commons 3.0 Is it possible for government services to be easy to use? Most of the time — not even close. But the UK Government Digital Services (GDS) team has changed that, taking home a 2013 Design of the Year award. One of the judges even remarked, “[GOV.UK] creates a
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Texting and driving don’t always mix. Sure knowing where the next turn is has been virtually solved. And self-parking, even self-driving cars exist. But texting while driving is more to blame for car accidents, especially among teens, and the accident rate continues to skyrocket. While it can be so helpful, even life-saving at times, technology
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The basic homepage design is so 2012. The supposed magic formula of 10 elements to include for a successful home page isn’t enough anymore for a simple reason — it’s too formulaic. And that can create for a boring homepage that’ll drive users away. That’s not to say those page elements don’t have function —
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