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The Definitive Guide to Building Apps for Kids
Children today spend an average of three hours a day on digital devices. There’s a great opportunity, and a responsibility, for digital designers to influence tomorrow’s generations in a positive way.

Tanya Junell
Tanya is a product design and UX strategist bringing human-centered design solutions to high growth ed-tech, lifestyle, and financial brands.
Future UI and the End of Design Sandboxes
As design moves from target destinations to systems of interactive components, it’s important for designers to master creating products that adapt and can thrive in unpredictable contexts.

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.
The Power of Touch – The Evolution of Button Design (with Infographic)
Today, buttons are darlings of the design world, and product teams obsess over their every detail. But 150 years ago, they didn’t even exist. Learn how buttons rose from obscurity to design stardom.

Micah Bowers
Micah helps businesses craft meaningful connections through branding, illustration, and design.
The World Is Our Interface: The Evolution of UI Design
Today, computers are omnipresent. With the rapid advance in the evolution of UI design, an exploration into human interaction with objects, the environment, and technology has become essential.

Danielle Reid
Danielle is a UI designer who has worked at large advertising and branding agencies. She is also a co-founder of two successful startups.
Getting Acquainted: A Guide to User Onboarding Flows
First impressions are vital, and the outcome is binary—engagement or escape. The same goes for user onboarding. Learn how onboarding drives brand awareness and establishes trust with end users.

Viktoriia Pshenychko
Viktoriia is a UX/UI designer and mentor with a focus on user onboarding, conversion, and revenue-driven design.
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The Future of UX Is Our Humanity
The future of UX lies in the ability of UX professionals to work at the intersection of technology while also mastering the craft of important human-centered design techniques.

Brian Pagán, EngD, MSc
Brian is a human experience designer with over 17 years of experience focusing on digital products in healthcare, blockchain, and fintech.
Stay Cool: How to Take Design Feedback Strategically
Giving and receiving feedback—without losing one’s cool—is an art. It’s incumbent on designers to encourage others to give them quality design critiques on their work that cultivates constructive discussion.

Bree Chapin
Bree is a product designer and design manager, a creative problem-solver with a decade of experience in all facets of digital design.
Web Animation in the Post-Flash Era
Modern web animation technology has matured significantly. However, designers should tread carefully and only add animation to a website if it meaningfully enhances the user experience.

Ana Gregurec
Ana has a master’s in graphic arts and over seven years of experience as a professional graphic designer with a focus on animation and video.
Are All Trends Worth It? The Top 5 Most Common UX Mistakes Web Designers Make
Are the hazards worth it when designers turn into web design trend-chasers? Web design trends, if not considered carefully and implemented with caution, could lead to several common UX mistakes.

Bojan Janjanin
Bojan is a senior web designer and front-end developer proficient in UX design with 12 years of experience designing for web and mobile.
Why Small Words Matter: The Importance of Microcopy UX
Small words matter. Effective UX microcopy can help UX designers create digital products that are more useful, engaging, and simple to use. Here are several examples of good (and bad) microcopy.

Chintan Bhatt
Chintan is a user experience designer with over a decade of experience designing products for web, mobile, and other digital mediums.
Top Data Visualization Examples and Dashboard Designs
Data visualization and dashboard design is both an art and a science. The correct use of dashboard UX and graphical excellence principles turn ordinary graphics into extraordinary experiences.

Shane Ketterman
Shane comes from a background in architecture, information technology, customer experience, and UX design.
Words and Actions: A Guide to Microcopy
Without interface copy, there’d be UX chaos on a global scale. Thankfully, we can use words whenever we want, but how do we use them well? These easy-to-use principles lead to convincing microcopy.

Milan Jovanovic
Milan is a UX design expert with a love for helping companies develop clean and lean mobile apps.
Coding for Designers: How Much Should We Know?
Much of the design community is wondering: does graphic design require coding? Some favor seeking out the unicorns who can do both, design and coding, while others claim they don’t exist or only get in the way.

Jon Vieira
Jônatas is a detail-oriented digital art director who uses UI, UX, visual and motion design to make technology simple for everyone.
Mobile UX Design Principles
Designers only have a few seconds to catch the attention of mobile users before they abandon an app or site. Following established mobile UX design principles creates a better overall user experience.

Cameron Chapman
Cameron comes from a design background and is the author of two web design books: Color for Web Design and The Smashing Idea Book.
Exploring the Reasons for Design Thinking Criticism
Design thinking has become both a buzzword and a useful business tool. It has been hailed as revolutionary while also called a failed experiment as evidenced by increasing criticism.

Shane Ketterman
Shane comes from a background in architecture and design, information technology, and content marketing, and practices UX research.
Mobile E-commerce Best Practices for UX (With Infographic)
E-commerce sites and apps that are not mindful of mobile e-ommerce best practices will be left in the dust and stand to lose billions. But successful mobile e-commerce experiences can be achieved by following these mobile e-commerce UX design best practices (with infographic).

Miklos Philips
Miklos is a UX designer, product design strategist, author, and speaker with more than 18 years of experience in the design field.
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