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UX Design

Notoriously difficult to define, User Experience (UX) Design is more than anything else the analytical side of creating a web or mobile User Interface (UI), with the goal of producing websites and mobile apps that work as intended, are easy to use, and users love to interact with.

Here you will find an extensive collection of articles, tips, and recommended tools, written by professional UX Designers, covering all aspects of User Experience Design.

Building Minimum Viable Products at Spotify

Building Minimum Viable Products at Spotify

Many companies face the paradox of wanting to build a delightful product without knowing if people actually want the product until it’s released. Spotify’s vision was to give people the…

Exploration of Beautifully Designed Product Pages

Exploration of Beautifully Designed Product Pages

Startups have, for the last few years, focused heavily on having beautifully designed landing pages. When software design is a big part of the company, it’s only natural that there’s…

Making Bad Feedback from Your Boss or Client Actionable

Making Bad Feedback from Your Boss or Client Actionable

Most designers work in non-design orientated cultures, where the majority of the people you work with do not have a core understanding of design principles. Believe me. I was one…

Exciting New Web Design Ideas Worth Taking a Look at

Exciting New Web Design Ideas Worth Taking a Look at

One thing we do at the start of every year is look back at some of the popular trends from last year and try to predict what will be the…

Good vs. Great Web Design: The Difference

Good vs. Great Web Design: The Difference

While there are no rigid rules when it comes to web design, there do exist certain metrics that can distinguish a bad design from a good one, and even more…

UX Design for HTML/CSS Mobile Web Applications

UX Design for HTML/CSS Mobile Web Applications

Mobile iOS devices were a step towards popularizing the idea of web applications. Web developers could build pages with HTML meta tags creating app icons to be saved onto the…

Why Is This Here? Why You See Weird Prices Online

Why Is This Here? Why You See Weird Prices Online

Pricing isn’t an art anymore. It’s a science with some well-documented and researched principles on how people think and compare when offered multiple options. Here’s the good news: although pricing…

Why Best Practices in Conversion Rate Optimization Aren’t Always Best

Why Best Practices in Conversion Rate Optimization Aren’t Always Best

Intuition: it’s really a wonderful thing. Sometimes it can ‘show us the way’ and will lead us to make the right decisions. But sometimes, it’s so flawed that we wonder…

Landing Page Design Trends for Selling Digital Products

Landing Page Design Trends for Selling Digital Products

Web designers and developers have been practicing the art of landing page layouts for over a decade. The refined techniques we use in modern websites have been crafted from years…

Sleek and Greasy – The UX of Fast Food Homepages

Sleek and Greasy – The UX of Fast Food Homepages

No matter how you slice it, the crux of the fast food industry is cheap, unhealthy food served fast. Marketing campaigns have been launched to convince patrons to wait a…

Beginner’s Guide to Animated Website Tours

Beginner’s Guide to Animated Website Tours

To make a compatible tour page for your website requires a lot of insight towards what your visitors need to know. Generally you can find a lot of examples using…

Does the Web Design Work?

Does the Web Design Work?