This week’s pick: previously featured Octalysis gamification framework. This has been my go-to resource for years to simply deconstruct and evaluate real-life service and digital user experiences. During experience design (UX research, ideation, and design) efforts you’ll definitely encounter user pain points around tasks that are painful to accomplish....
I keep receiving the question of choosing the right UX portfolio platform way to often to ignore. Whilst I believe that a simple PDF or a WordPress blog turned UX portfolio is enough to get a job within the field, having a public site with living content can help...
Episode 48: Really Good Customer Email Examples for Content Designers This week’s pick: Really Good Emails. This one’s for the experience designers, marketing enthusiasts, content designers and anyone who is passionate about optimal customer experience among us. If you have ever worked on email conversions, updates and other inbox-communication...
In this video, I’ll share #1 tip to any UX designer’s career progression: Showing your work, sharing of the raw process, showcasing how the sausage is made rather than focusing on the packaged up deliverables. Depending on your seniority showing your work could mean adding more contextual design information...
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...
Episode 46: Great UX Microcopy & Content Design Examples This week’s pick: Microcopy Inspirations – a collection of good to great UX microcopy, copy and general content design examples. I like this collection to get inspired for a specific category of copy use cases. For example, 404 pages, error...
Coming up with great first UX case studies for your UX portfolio (junior or senior) is a daunting task. Having reviewed hundreds of portfolios over the years, I can see the same mistakes across a variety of UX specialities and seniority levels. In this video, I’ll give you a...
The following 7 design, inspiration and other bits of interest bullets that kept me pondering during last month: I’m not going to tell you again how important it is to get a perspective and routine to maintain the positive mental outlook on things, as that was last month’s topic....
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…...
Episode 45: Best Font Pairing Examples for Product Designers This week’s pick: Typewolf. This comprehensive collection of best examples of typography pairings is super useful when working with existing or new fonts. While this online resource is useful for any creative designer, product and UI designers will especially benefit...
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...
Episode 44: Ultimate UI Animations for Product Designers This week’s pick: Lottie Files. A community for resources for Airbnb’s Lottie animations for product design (UX/UI). In this video, I’ll share some of the key features that make this online resource a great addition to your toolkit: the ability to...
If the title of this video has caught your attention it’s probably because you have been delaying on working on your UX design, product design or any other creative portfolio. This video is not just another call to action to get you motivated to get started, but rather a...
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...
This week’s pick: Animaticons. A set of animated GIF icons that are super easy to add to your existing product design and UX prototyping efforts, as well as implement from the frontend perspective. I’ll also show how I’d use this resource to liven up my prototypes with meaningful motion....
Welcome to the new series on Axure RP 9 prototyping: Axure RP – Noob to Master. Axure is a muscle tool for high-fidelity prototypes and killer UX design. Session #88: Creating Your UI Pattern and Axure Widget Libraries In this short tutorial, I’ll show you the easiest way to...