This week’s Design Tool Tuesday is atypical. Instead of covering a specific tool and its benefits, I’ll cover one of the burning challenges in the UX community: gathering enough strong material to make UX portfolio case studies shine. Using the product design challenge ideas I’ll share some tangible actions...
Every decision you’ll make will land on a spectrum between 1) simple (effective) but hard to achieve, and 2) easy in the short term but awful in the long term. As humans, we naturally default to immediate remediation actions because they are easy, but they rarely result in decent outcomes....
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: Nucleo app for Windows and Mac ecosystems. This icon management app is previously mentioned Iconjar equivalent for Windows product and UI designers. Just like the alternative, Nucleo packs the custom icon pack management, ability to quickly get started with existing predefined icons and a few bits...
It might be tad ballsy to say that every one of UX designers (let’s bunch all designer types in this one) will experience difficulties in their projects and potential burnout. I’ve been there several times myself. What helped me is understanding why we tend to experience this and what...
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...
I don’t need you to tell how hard it really is to come up with a strong junior UX portfolio, especially if you only got a UX Bootcamp or a few months (even years, really!) of commercial experience under your belt. Recently one of the viewers reached out asking...
This week’s pick: Fontpair. A library of examples of best free font pairings for UI, UX, and product designers. I’ve covered a handful of tools that allow to quickly get inspired and find your next pair of well-assembled fonts. This tool is a simple effective way to find it...
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...
This week’s pick: Canva. A web digital design tool that has been adopted by the product, UX, graphic designers, and people who have almost nothing to do with more visual aspects of design. Think marketing teams, customer experience, and product people. This app is rich in ready to start...
Unquestionably design that divides the audience and receives both overtly positive and negative feedback tends to be a sign of great design. It indicates that the solution answers a specific user’s needs, goals and pain points, rather than catering to all. But is it that simple though? This month’s...
This week for the Design Tool Tuesday we have not one or two tools but a whole lot of free icon resources for product and UX designers. I’ll quickly explain the key features and why these are the icon sets and resources that every designer should bookmark. In no...
This week’s design tool pick: IconJar. A very simple yet handy app that allows product, UI and UX designers keep all their icons and sets well structured in one single place. In this video, I’ll show how I use this app and how it integrates into my design workflow...
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 is actually 2 apps that help you produce very similar outcomes: Screenly and Screenzy. Just like the overtly similar names suggest they are all about making your UI mockups, photos, screenshots, or any other digital material more presentable. These apps allow you to quickly upload the...