Session #83: Axure’s New Out of the Box UI Patterns In this session, I’ll showcase something brand new Axure just released with their Axure 9 updates. If you have been looking for simple components to easily get started, such as dropdowns, time and date pickers, carousels, slideshows, sliders and...
This week’s pick: Billboard Design Thinking Workshop Templates. As mentioned in the interview/UX Chat with Microsoft UX architect, fellow design thinker and Billboard design thinking evangelist Sean McGuire, the method is super effective as is open to use by anyone. In this video, I will walk you through the...
The following 7 design, inspiration and other bits of interest bullets that kept me pondering during last month: Let’s start the new year with a small challenge: consistency in design is the wrong approach. While a bit clickbait this article is a perfect start to any designer’s year. We tend...
An insightful evening UX chat with a fellow design thinker, Microsoft UX architect Sean McGuire. We cover his unique approach to design thinking with Billboard Design Thinking method, best practices, his top tips to handle difficult stakeholders and answer some of your questions. This is a must-watch for new...
This week’s pick: AMCharts – a live editor for building, testing and exporting real charts online. This is one of the oldest web-based tools I’ve got in my toolkit I use regularly for wireframes, low-to-high fidelity mockups and any other scenario where quick data visualisation is a must. The...
5k subscriber special? It has been just over the year since I started publishing some of the material I initially made to upskill my design team. I’m super grateful to all the viewers out there who have opted in for the UX tools, such as Axure and Sketch tutorials,...
This week’s pick: Sketch2Code by Microsoft AI lab. In this video, I’ll test this promising tool that not only converts hand-drawn sketches and wireframes into functional clean HTML, but also provides with probability rate breakdown for each of the UI wireframe areas. Is it really accurate enough though? watch...
In this episode for creating fully functional atomic design systems from scratch, I’ll talk about 2 vital parts making this effort a success. Too often efforts that are done in isolation and that lack necessary buy-ins tend to end up collecting dust. What was meant to be transformative new...
This week’s pick: Hypothesis prioritisation canvas by Lean UX author Jeff Gothelf. If you know about the Lean UX canvas and how impactful it has been for tech and UX design community you might benefit from an additional template/design tool they released most recently – the way to prioritise...
In this session, I’ll walk you through 10 big tips (actually tips that have smaller tips within in) that will be useful for beginner and more advanced UX, product designers, UX researchers alike. I’ll talk about process bits, research goals, essential preparation and items to keep in mind when...
This week’s pick: AI photo generator experiment from NVIDIA.Not the most user-friendly, but surely powerful and impressive machine learning piece. By selecting a sample bitmap and drawing a rough sketch you’ll get a quickly generated output. Most of it looks a bit watercoloured or washed out, however some landscapes...
Session #81. Conditional Logic and Condition Builder In this session, bit by bit I’ll walk you through the conditional logic in Axure. I’ll also showcase each option in Axure’s Condition Builder feature. While mentioned and showcased before around the use cases, this UX prototyping feature (set) is a must....
In this video, I’ll share 10 challenges for UX/product designers with basic and advanced difficulty levels. Why challenges? It’s a new year and a new block of time full of opportunities. I’d go as far as labelling it full 365 days of opportunities. Because typical new year resolutions tend...
This week’s pick: UX Design Book Reading List by yours truly. Yet again I’ll share another resource from my personal arsenal. Over the past few years, I’ve been logging this reading list with over 40 titles (as of late 2019) to share with my junior and peer designers when...
Product design folk who work with data visualisation, fin-tech, trading, big data and analytics UI – this tool is for you. It’s my recent addition to Sketch plugin family – Sketch plugin to generate custom decimal number entries and append specific characters en masse. I’ve been banging my head...
In this session, we’ll use one of the recent tutorials from Axure team – animated background particles. Specifically, because of the festive season, I’ll show you how to generate multiple snowflake objects in Axure. We will achieve this by using repeaters and underlying code features. Using these methods you...