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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.
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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.
Looking at Ro-Lu: A Usability Case Study
How do designers balance a website’s originality with its user-friendliness? Do they retreat to the safety of what is acceptable and risk the design falling flat, or implement a risky but unique design?
Darko Stanimirović
Darko is a UX/UI designer and founder. He takes ideas and transforms them into smart, well-designed, intuitive products.
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