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Mobile Design

As well as learning the principles of mobile app design, you will also discover how to create responsive and user-friendly designs for all mobile devices.

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Tips for Creating a Truly Functional Mobile Experience

Tips for Creating a Truly Functional Mobile Experience

Web Design

The need for a website to be mobile-friendly is undeniable. Mobile has already overtaken desktop in the number of users, and Google has made no bones about the fact that…

6 Subtle UI Changes in iOS 11

6 Subtle UI Changes in iOS 11

UI Design

With the unveiling of iOS 11, Apple continues to iterate on the existing user interface and push the envelope in terms of what can be achieved within a mobile operating…

Progressive Web Applications: What Exactly Are They?

Progressive Web Applications: What Exactly Are They?

Web Design

The Progressive Web Apps (PWA) technology developed by Google has been available to the public for almost a year, but relatively few people outside the world of hardcore developers are…

20 Tips for Improving Your App’s Rank in the iOS App Store

20 Tips for Improving Your App’s Rank in the iOS App Store

Web Design

Just over 2 million apps and counting. That’s the number of apps currently in the iOS App Store, with thousands of similar apps overwhelming every category and subcategory. With that…

Designing a Successful Mobile Commerce App

Designing a Successful Mobile Commerce App

Web Design

A bad mobile app can make or break a company’s image and revenues. In fact, Google reports that 79% of surveyed respondents indicated they would turn to a competitor’s app…

Why You Should Choose iOS When Building Your First Mobile App

Why You Should Choose iOS When Building Your First Mobile App

Web Design

When designing a new mobile application, the biggest question you will need to ask yourself is where to launch it. The best decision you can make is to start building…

Anti-Apps: The Rise of Apps That Get You Away from Technology

Anti-Apps: The Rise of Apps That Get You Away from Technology

UX Design

Every generation has complained about the habits and technology of younger generations. Malesherbes, a French statesman, thought that newspapers isolated readers in contrast to the “spiritually uplifting” group practice of…

How to Prototype an iOS App with Sketch and Flinto (Part 2)

How to Prototype an iOS App with Sketch and Flinto (Part 2)

UI Design

Welcome back! You should now have six screens of design awesomeness that you created in the first part of this tutorial. Good job! Let’s now put the prototyping tool, Flinto…

How to Prototype an iOS App with Sketch and Flinto

How to Prototype an iOS App with Sketch and Flinto

UI Design

Sketch has a plethora of companion applications to share the top table with, and there is, especially, no shortage of Prototyping applications out there to wine and dine our favourite…

Prototyping Just Went to the Next Level With Framer

Prototyping Just Went to the Next Level With Framer

UI Design

The latest version of Framer brings closure (well, that’s my opinion anyway) to the ‘should designers code’ argument. Never has there been a greater opportunity, as a visual designer, to…

How Web Developers Can Adapt to a Mobile App World

How Web Developers Can Adapt to a Mobile App World

Web Design

I work for a development consulting company that was founded in 2005. Up until 2011 or so, we worked exclusively on websites and web-based applications. Since then, we have aggressively…

Consistency Please! Style Guides in Sketch

Consistency Please! Style Guides in Sketch

UI Design

Product design is a team sport. The best teams tend to have lots of moving parts: designers and developers and managers and researchers all working in concert on a single,…

Tips for Wireframing a Usable Mobile App UI

Tips for Wireframing a Usable Mobile App UI

UI Design

A lot of time and energy is required to build mobile iOS/Android apps. Aside from the coding and UI design you need to plan functionality ahead of time. This way…

Designing an iOS App in Sketch: Part 3

Designing an iOS App in Sketch: Part 3

UI Design

In this 3 part tutorial (I wanted to break it into more digestible chunks) well be creating screens for a fictional, ‘Pay It Forward*’ iOS App called ‘Piece’. Just in…

How Building an App with My Friend Is Changing My Life

How Building an App with My Friend Is Changing My Life

Freelance

I used to be a happy man five months ago. Five months ago, I watched TV shows and had a few beers on Fridays. Five months ago, I didn’t even…

Designing an iOS App in Sketch: Part 2

Designing an iOS App in Sketch: Part 2

UI Design

In this 3 part tutorial (I wanted to break it into more digestible chunks) well be creating screens for a fictional, ‘Pay It Forward*’ iOS App called ‘Piece’. If you…

Designing an iOS App in Sketch

Designing an iOS App in Sketch

UI Design

In this 3 part tutorial (I wanted to break it into more digestible chunks) we’ll be creating screens for a fictional, ‘Pay It Forward’ iOS App called ‘Piece’. Before we…

Prototyping with Marvel and Sketch: Part 1 of 2

Prototyping with Marvel and Sketch: Part 1 of 2

UI Design
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