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25 Fantastic Tutorials For Learning UI Design in Figma

25 Fantastic Tutorials For Learning UI Design in Figma

UI Design

From UI basics to more advanced techniques, with the help of these tutorials, you’ll be able to learn and master Figma in no time.

8 React JavaScript Snippets That Improve Everyday UI Elements

8 React JavaScript Snippets That Improve Everyday UI Elements

JavaScript / UI Design

A collection of excellent snippets that demonstrate the impact React JavaScript library can have on a user interface.

Designing Websites Using DISC Analysis

Designing Websites Using DISC Analysis

UX Design

I first came across DISC analysis while doing a stint as a ski instructor in Canada last winter (every web designer needs a hobby right?!) and the technique helped me…

Ignore The Design, Please

Ignore The Design, Please

UX Design

“Hey, I want to show you something I built. Ignore the design please, it is not finished yet.” From school science fair projects to real world product prototypes, if I…

The Essentials of Designing Hotel Reservation Interfaces

The Essentials of Designing Hotel Reservation Interfaces

UX Design

Much like the shopping cart and checkout processes for e-commerce, the room reservation process is a critical part of any hotel’s online presence. Due to the key role it plays,…

How Profile Photos Can Affect the User Experience

How Profile Photos Can Affect the User Experience

UX Design

Social networks have grown into the norm in today’s sophisticated Internet. Modern web pages have become very personalized over the past decade including some user interface features. One such example…

4 Reasons Minimum Viable Products Fail

4 Reasons Minimum Viable Products Fail

UX Design

It is common belief that roughly 80-90% of products fail. Although this figure defies logic, the myth persists. If over 80% of new products truly fail, does it make sense…

10 Massively Successful Minimum Viable Products

10 Massively Successful Minimum Viable Products

UX Design

Today, lean startups and tech titans alike are increasingly using the minimum viable product (MVP) as a starting point for building successful software products. In the article 4 Reasons MVPs…

Building Minimum Viable Products at Spotify

Building Minimum Viable Products at Spotify

UX Design

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…

Good vs. Great Web Design: The Difference

Good vs. Great Web Design: The Difference

UX Design / Web Design

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…

Landing Page Design Trends for Selling Digital Products

Landing Page Design Trends for Selling Digital Products

UX Design

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…

The Science of Buttons: How to Get People to Click

The Science of Buttons: How to Get People to Click

UX Design

“The button”- the online heart of every campaign and landing page and the final gateway to lead generation. A call to action button plays a central role in convincing visitors…

Sleek and Greasy – The UX of Fast Food Homepages

Sleek and Greasy – The UX of Fast Food Homepages

UX Design

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…

Does the Web Design Work?

Does the Web Design Work?

UX Design

The ultimate goal of web design is to change a certain behavior. An important thing before we get started: What I’m talking about here is web design for commercial purposes,…

14 Ways Your Website May Be Giving You a Bad Reputation

14 Ways Your Website May Be Giving You a Bad Reputation

Web Design

When people come to your site, you’re implicitly asking them to believe in you. You may want them to feel secure enough to buy your product or to hire you…

The 10 Commandments of Web Design

The 10 Commandments of Web Design

Web Design

As creative a field as it may be, web design is nevertheless bound by certain time-honored rules and best practices, and abusing them can jeopardize a site’s design and usability…

User Interface Design in Modern Search Engines

User Interface Design in Modern Search Engines

UX Design

The search engine is our best tool for sifting through all of today’s websites. There are billions of domains online and many of them haven’t even been crawled by search…

Creating a Pixel-Perfect UI for iPhone Applications

Creating a Pixel-Perfect UI for iPhone Applications

UX Design