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...
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 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...
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...
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...
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...
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....
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...
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...
You’ve asked for it, so here it is… 2020 edition of the latest and greatest UX prototyping tools. We will use the existing criteria scales to better understand which of these tools might be right for you and your design team. As a designer (product, UX etc.) you probably...
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...
Episode 36: Data Visualization Library for UX/UI Designers A library of the best in practice data visualizations and charts for meaningful data representation. If you’re working with big data, AI, machine learning decision supports, data visualization or simple dashboard projects this is a must-bookmark tool. You’ll find hundreds of...
Goodbye Adobe CC – Why I Stopped Using Adobe Products as a UX Designer is a quick take highlighting the reasons that made me stop using Adobe CC products as a UX designer. Note, that I’ve been using Adobe since the early days of Macromedia (way before it was...
This week’s pick: Uizard. A brand new tool to hit the market with powerful beta. The tool allows quickly upload hand-drawn sketches and convert them into digital designs + full-fledged front-end code. The best bit about all of it is integrated design systems, that allow fast brand and component...