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I often get asked which UX, design and prototyping tool is the right one. Fact is, tools are nothing but options to solving a specific problem at hand. The more tools you’re aware of the easier you can apply and use it in that specific scenario. Here I’ll share some of the best tools I’ve encountered to date.

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    How to Make Generative Art for Designers

    This time I’ll show you how you can make Generative Art with just a click of a button. While the majority of generative processing is commonly done by developers using code and scripts, there’s also some purpose build small apps that can help designers like you to quickly come...

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    Apple’s Macbook Touch Bar UX: Why is Nobody Talking About it?

    It’s been almost half a decade and there have been very few improvements in terms of Apple’s Macbook Touch Bar UX. With the recent Big Sur release Apple has made some tweaks with repositioning buttons here and there making users relearn to use this input method yet again. In...

  • design tool for 3d review and demo

    First Look at Design Tool for 3D, Spline

    While the design field is abundant with tools that address the majority of UX, UI, and product designer needs, the 3D space has been left aside for quite some time. A lot of designers have been thinking to learn 3D fundamentals and crafting simple yet presentable solutions, but have...

  • Fuzzy Cognitive Mapping for UX Design in Human-centred AI

    Fuzzy Cognitive Mapping for UX Design in Human-centered AI

    Human-centered AI, eh? Depending on your career projection in the experience, service, and product design, you might just be lucky enough to work on grand projects that build on top and support human decisions. It almost doesn’t matter how advanced the machine learning algorithms and AI are if it...

  • All-in-one Free Stock Photo App for Product Designers

    All-in-one Free Stock Photo App for Product Designers

    Have you ever struggled to find the right free stock photo and had to spend browsing several quality stock photo sites? I’m talking about all the typical choices product and content designers visit Unsplash, Splitshire, Startup Stock Photos, Magdeleine, Free Nature Stock, New Old Stock, Pexels, Pixabay, and many...

  • Simplest Way to Make Duotone Photo Effect

    Simplest Way to Make Duotone Photo Effect

    You’ve probably seen this duotone photo effect in a lot of product and UI design examples around the web. Today I’ll share and walk you through this small design app that allows you to quickly upload or use predefined Unsplash photos to apply and customize a duotone effect. All...

  • Awesome Illustrations Creator for Product Designers

    Awesome Illustrations Creator for Product Designers

    This week’s pick: Blush. It’s a web app and a powerful plugin for Sketch and Figma product designers alike. It allows anyone to quickly pick, customize, and create custom illustrations. In this video, I’ll walk you through some of the key use cases and features using the Figma plugin....

  • mymind: Visual Bookmarking and Inspiration Simplified

    mymind: Visual Bookmarking and Inspiration Simplified

    This week’s pick is the recent discovery called mymind. A browser extension to save all of the web things like articles, images, text and inspiration for later. While I know a lot of creatives and designers who use Pinterest and other public ecosystems to visually bookmark things online they...

  • UI prototype of mobile music player in Axure UX

    How to Play Audio Clips in Axure UX Prototypes

    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...

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    One Icon Management App for All Platforms – Design Tool Tuesday

    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...

  • Getting Started with Human-Centered Design: IDEO HCD Kit - Design Tool Tuesday

    Getting Started with Human-Centered Design: IDEO HCD Kit – Design Tool Tuesday

    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...

  • Font Pairing Library for Product Designers - Design Tool Tuesday

    Font Pairing Library for Product Designers – Design Tool Tuesday

    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...

  • Canva; A Tool to Make Anyone a Designer - Design Tool Tuesday

    A Tool to Make Anyone a Designer – Design Tool Tuesday

    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...

  • 20 Awesome Free Icon Resources for Product and UX Designers - Design Tool Tuesday,

    20 Awesome Free Icon Resources for Product and UX Designers – Design Tool Tuesday,

    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...

  • Manage All of Your Icons in One Central Place - Design Tool Tuesday

    Manage All of Your Icons in One Central Place – Design Tool Tuesday

    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...

  • App to Test Your Menus and Sitemap IA - Design Tool Tuesday

    App to Test Your Menus and Sitemap IA – Design Tool Tuesday

    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...


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