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.
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...
This week’s pick: Figma’s resources for easy to use Google web font pairing for product and UX designers. Sometime back I reviewed a pro tool called Typewolf that designers can use to get inspired to use their typefaces more effectively. This time it’s the opposite side of the learning...
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...
You’ve asked for it: UI gamification is this Axure UX prototyping challenge theme. The rules are simple – you get a high-level product design brief and simple scenario. The rest is up to you: UX research, UX exploration and UI fidelity, visual expressions, interaction design methods and prototype depth…...
Session #90: Axure UX Prototype Review: Telco Website In this session, we will perform a UX surgery. Specifically, I’ll walk you through one of the viewer’s from Oz (https://www.instagram.com/damian.ux/) prototype for Telecom customers. It’s a smooth customer experience prototype worth walking through and getting inspired from. Using it as...
Session #89: Complex (yet simple to implement) Product Slider in Axure RP. In this session, I’ll walk you through the step to create a complex column-based product slider. This case is an interesting experiment making a related product or main product list scroll horizontally. If you need another pattern...
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...
Session #87: Password Confirmation and Validation In this session, we’ll continue where we left of prototyping a complex UX scenario with Axure. Specifically, I’ll show you how to quickly connect a confirm password field with the primary password input field. We will also use Axure’s fire event feature to...
In this session, I’ll walk you through the key steps to UX prototyping Password input functionality in Axure. Specifically, you’ll get the steps needed to make a password strength checking as well as conditional logic to make your UX and product design prototypes lifelike. Ability to design and prototype...
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...
You’ve asked for it, so here it is – the third UX Prototyping with Axure Challenge instalment. The rules are simple: you get a high-level product design brief and simple scenario. The rest is up to you: UX research, UX exploration and UI fidelity, visual expressions, interaction design methods...
Session #85: Dynamic Language Switch in UX Prototype. In this session, I’ll show you the easiest way to make dynamic information switch. Specifically, I’ll showcase a language switch for a single UI page that allows users to swap two languages at any point. Using global variables as unique value...