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...
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...
Making a UX Portfolio is one of the biggest challenges user researchers, product design, and user experience professionals face. While most material you find online covers how to structure the UX case studies and make your portfolio stand out, rarely do senior designers mention one critical bit – the...
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...
The following 7 design, inspiration and other bits of interest bullets that kept me pondering during last month: Before covering what’s next, let’s first look into the past year or so to better understand the underlying themes then it comes to design, tech and customer experience. The real MVP...
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....
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...
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....
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...
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...
Episode 42: App for Interactive User Flows and UX Journeys This week’s pick: Overflow app. A UX and product design tool that allows to quickly import Sketch, Figma, Adobe XD mockups and stitch them together into interactive touchpoints. If you are after an intuitive tool that helps to convey...
The following 7 design, inspiration and other bits of interest bullets that kept me pondering during last month: With the C-19 forcing teams to choose a more distributed and nimble approach to work, you might find one of the designers wondering how to stay productive. I love this article...
This week’s pick: Ditto plugin for Figma. It’s a UX copywriting plugin that integrates with free to use Ditto app where UX writers can easily manage and maintain copy across different UI artboards. The best bit about this plugin is that working within bigger teams you can track the...
This time I decided to stream the 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 were simple – you get a high-level product...
This week’s pick: Attention Insights Sketch plugin for design analytics. It’s a recent discovery that I plan to adapt to my Sketch product and UI design workflow. It allows to quickly produce interesting and actionable attention heatmaps for each of your design artboards. In this video, I’ll test the...