In this fourth video, and as mentioned in the previous session I have a special guest who is a user for one of the most loved (and hated) products from Amazon family – Goodreads; As a reader and a user, our guest will help me map the key journey...
In this third video to experience and UX journey mapping for product, UX designers, and user researchers, I’ll walk you through 3 key principles that can make or break any workshop facilitation effort. I’ll quickly distill the lessons learned from running hundreds of UX mapping workshops over the years....
This time I’m streaming a different kind of tutorial – making of a platformer game UX/UI prototype using nothing but readily available game art assets and Axure RP as a logic builder app. End result will be a fully functional web app/game. Needless to say, game prototyping is a...
In this second video on how to run experience and UX journey mapping workshops effectively so that you gain enough insights to inform the next UX design steps, I’ll cover the preparation principles. In particular, I’ll share my 3 go-to areas when it comes to preparing for journey mapping...
This mini-series of videos on experience and UX journey mapping has been in the books for over the year! it’s time to bring it to live and quickly introduce and upskill those who have not to approach UX design with a discovery mindset (and methods). Journey mapping with adequate...
In this episode, I’ll show you how to work with audio files in your Axure RP UX and UI prototypes. While Axure does not directly support adding and controlling audio clips, there are a couple of handy Javascript workarounds that might be what you’re after. This solution allows to...
This week’s pick: An Human-Centered Design kit from Ideo. This is a set of methods, thinking principles and case studies that been transformative in my own experience design and UX development. It’s also a set of tools I recommend every designer to refer to regularly, especially when it comes...
This time I decided to stream the Axure UX prototyping challenge LIVE! Let’s see if this works out. The topic for the challenge was Data visualization prototyping and I received superb entries from UX and interaction designers across the globe. The rules are simple – you get a high-level...
Sometime back I asked my viewers if there’s anyone who would like to get their UX portfolios reviewed and shared with the broader audience. While I understand it must be daunting to put it out there, constructive feedback and specific pointers can make all the difference. By complete accident...
Session #92: Creating Axure calendar picker with repeaters. Just like the title says, in this video, I’ll walk you through the key steps to make a fully functional calendar picker in Axure. Better yet, because repeaters tend to be the easiest way to replicate behaviors across several dynamic panels...
This week’s pick: Treejack by Optimal Workshop. Let’s face it, information architecture (IA) is paramount when it comes to designing cohesive user experiences. As designers, we tend to employ several methods that help us structure the data in a truly meaningful way, but what we usually lack is enough...
This week’s pick: Figma’s resources for easy to use Google web font pairing for product and UX designers. Sometime back I reviewed a pro tool called Typewolf that designers can use to get inspired to use their typefaces more effectively. This time it’s the opposite side of the learning...
Oh boy, am I excited to share this new design tool, Axure UX prototyping plugin that finally allows to smoothly bridge gaps between Figma UI and product design efforts and Axure RP UX prototyping in highest of facilities. If you or your design team have been delaying the Figma...
You’ve asked for it: UI gamification is this Axure UX prototyping challenge theme. The rules are simple – you get a high-level product design brief and simple scenario. The rest is up to you: UX research, UX exploration and UI fidelity, visual expressions, interaction design methods and prototype depth…...
Session #90: Axure UX Prototype Review: Telco Website In this session, we will perform a UX surgery. Specifically, I’ll walk you through one of the viewer’s from Oz (https://www.instagram.com/damian.ux/) prototype for Telecom customers. It’s a smooth customer experience prototype worth walking through and getting inspired from. Using it as...
Session #89: Complex (yet simple to implement) Product Slider in Axure RP. In this session, I’ll walk you through the step to create a complex column-based product slider. This case is an interesting experiment making a related product or main product list scroll horizontally. If you need another pattern...