Looking back to the years of my own tech, engineering and UX design development, only 1:1 mentoring, books and video tutorials were the most impactful sources to learn the craft. This is exactly the ingredients I’m trying to use to upskill not only my own design team but also anyone else who would benefit from free resources.
In this UX prototyping with Axure session, I’ll show you how to quickly make a simple photo background header that adapts to your browser size and adjust the image to make a full-sized cover. Welcome to the new series on Axure RP 9 prototyping: Axure RP – Noob to...
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...
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...
Session #96: Searchable Lists with Repeaters. In this session, I’ll walk you through simple steps to implementing a smart search feature that sorts and filters out values. You’ll be able to design and prototype a functional user input field that connects to the repeater data set in order to...
In this session, I’ll show you how to create a simple data range picker for your calendar UI components. We’ll build on top of the previous tutorial case for making a calendar picker using Axure’s repeater widget functionality. Be sure to check the previous episode to understand the underlying...
In this fourth video, and as mentioned in the previous session I have a special guest who is a user for one of the most loved (and hated) products from Amazon family – Goodreads; As a reader and a user, our guest will help me map the key journey...
In this third video to experience and UX journey mapping for product, UX designers, and user researchers, I’ll walk you through 3 key principles that can make or break any workshop facilitation effort. I’ll quickly distill the lessons learned from running hundreds of UX mapping workshops over the years....
This time I’m streaming a different kind of tutorial – making of a platformer game UX/UI prototype using nothing but readily available game art assets and Axure RP as a logic builder app. End result will be a fully functional web app/game. Needless to say, game prototyping is a...
In this second video on how to run experience and UX journey mapping workshops effectively so that you gain enough insights to inform the next UX design steps, I’ll cover the preparation principles. In particular, I’ll share my 3 go-to areas when it comes to preparing for journey mapping...
This mini-series of videos on experience and UX journey mapping has been in the books for over the year! it’s time to bring it to live and quickly introduce and upskill those who have not to approach UX design with a discovery mindset (and methods). Journey mapping with adequate...
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: 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 time I decided to stream the Axure 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 are simple – you get a high-level...
Sometime back I asked my viewers if there’s anyone who would like to get their UX portfolios reviewed and shared with the broader audience. While I understand it must be daunting to put it out there, constructive feedback and specific pointers can make all the difference. By complete accident...
Session #92: Creating Axure calendar picker with repeaters. Just like the title says, in this video, I’ll walk you through the key steps to make a fully functional calendar picker in Axure. Better yet, because repeaters tend to be the easiest way to replicate behaviors across several dynamic panels...
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...