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What Is Branding? Everything Is Branding.
From personal brands to anti-brands, we’ve entered an age of incessant brand awareness. Branding is everywhere, but is everything branding?
Micah Bowers
Micah helps businesses craft meaningful engagement through branding, illustration, and design.
The Chat Crash: When a Chatbot Fails
There’s much confusion and hyperbole surrounding chatbots. The tech is promising, but the user experience is lacking. We examine five chatbot fails and share practical tips to improve their UX.
Micah Bowers
Micah helps businesses craft meaningful engagement through branding, illustration, and design.
Mobile UX Design Constraints, Best Practices, and Working With Developers
We can achieve better user experiences with mobile UX design by following best practices, understanding constraints and facilitating a solid working relationship with developers.
Shane Ketterman
Shane comes from an architecture and design background as well as UX, tech, startups, and content marketing.
Heuristic Principles for Mobile Interfaces
Nielsen’s heuristic principles have stood the test of time and have been revisited to be further integrated with human-centered design for mobile—including clear definitions and design examples.
Jordan DeVos
Jordan’s expertise spans across brand strategy, service design, and UX. She works with organizations to help strengthen teams and innovate.
First Impressions: A Guide to Onboarding UX
Nearly one in four users will abandon a mobile app after using it just once. Good onboarding makes a great first impression, gives users a guided introduction, and can significantly improve user retention.
Bree Chapin
Bree’s a passionate designer and problem-solver with 10+ years experience in product and UXUI design for web and native mobile applications.
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Figma vs. Sketch vs. Axure: A Task-based Review
There are many UX design tools on the market, but their capabilities vary. This review examines the effectiveness of Sketch, Axure, and Figma with a task-based comparison.
Ben Kopf
Ben has 25 years of experience in UX, interaction, user research, and UI design. Ben thinks about what can be, not what is.
Chatbot UX: Design Tips and Considerations
Conversational user interfaces are a new frontier that requires thoughtful consideration. The design process should include defining the purpose of the chatbot, and other design considerations to create a successful user experience.
Merve Postalcıoğlu
Merve is a senior UX and product designer with extensive knowledge in user research and testing for a wide range of clients and industries.
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