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UI Animation—How to Apply Disney’s 12 Principles of Animation to UI Design

UI Animation is a valuable skill in a designer’s toolkit. You can use UI animation effects to reduce cognitive load and

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5 mths ago

Top 10 UI Trends Every Designer Should Know

People get easily bored with trends, and every few years, the pendulum swings from one way to another. We have all seen

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5 mths ago

5 Ways to Incorporate Affordances in User Interfaces

Affordances define what people can do with your product. Here, we look at the different areas where you can incorporate

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5 mths ago

How to Design Notifications for Better Mobile Interactions

Notification design is critical in the age of mobile interruption. Here, we look at how designers can create transparent

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5 mths ago

How to Use “Tappability” Affordances

In Mobile UX, affordances are critical because of the shift of contexts while the user is in motion. Users interact in s

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5 mths ago

Why Do We Not Act on Climate Change?

Why do we struggle to act on climate change? In this video, Father of UX design, Don Norman, sheds light on the key reas

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5 mths ago

How Can Designers Adapt to New Technologies? The Future of Technology in Design

The design industry is rapidly evolving with the integration of technologies such as artificial intelligence (AI) and 3D

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5 mths ago

Best Practices and UI Design Patterns for Help in Mobile

When users start to get to grips with your mobile app, they will need a little help from time to time. The good news is

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5 mths ago

Why Should Designers Become Leaders?

Are you excited to do good for humanity? Would you like to help solve the world’s biggest problems such as climate chang

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5 mths ago

How to Apply Incremental Modular Design to Global Challenges

Incrementalism or muddling through offers a flexible way to approach complex problems. However, pitching to funders who

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5 mths ago

The Use of Story and Emotions in Gamification

Gamification projects can benefit from storytelling features; these features can help arouse emotional connections with

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5 mths ago

The One Thumb, One Eyeball Test for Good Mobile Design

We live in a world of distractions, and so do your users. Hence, your designs must factor in users’ contexts and behavio

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6 mths ago

Everyone Loves a Story, and We are All Natural Storytellers

We all enjoy a good story even if what we define as a “good story” differs significantly from person to person. If we ca

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5 mths ago

How to Reduce Cognitive Friction in Mobile

There’s nothing more annoying than when things don’t function the way we expect them to. When users interact with a UI,

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6 mths ago

What Does a Creative Designer Do?

Designers seem to find new ways to confuse people about the work we do! Different companies might list widely different

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6 mths ago

Bartle’s Player Types for Gamification

Gamification is not the same as game design, because it adds game-like elements to non-gaming environments. However, the

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6 mths ago

Use More Meaningful Measurements in Design and in the World

What we measure and how we do it significantly impact people’s lives. Often, we measure certain things just because they

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6 mths ago

Recycling is Not Enough. Let's Design for Reuse

“We live in the age of technology and luxury, but we also live in the age of waste,” Don Norman explains. In this video,

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6 mths ago

Use Circular Design To Reverse Harm

Nature is circular. Nothing ever goes to waste. The banana peel we discard degrades into nutritious compost for plants.

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6 mths ago

How Designers Can Help Companies Design for the Circular Economy

The circular economy sounds like a simple idea to resolve the crisis we face as a species. A circular economy generates

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