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E-commerce 101: Understanding Shopping Cart Abandonment (With Infographic)
An illuminating infographic highlights 10 e-commerce pain points that ruin the user experience and lead to shopping cart abandonment.

Micah Bowers
Micah helps businesses craft meaningful engagement through branding, illustration, and design.
A Spectrum of Possibilities: The Go-to UI Color Guide
Color is the master key to compelling design communication, but UI designers must learn to wield its power. This guide simplifies color theory concepts and shows designers how to use color with precision.

Micah Bowers
Micah helps businesses craft meaningful engagement through branding, illustration, and design.
The Role of Color in UX
A well-thought-out color palette can elevate a design from “good” to “great” while a mediocre palette can detract from a user’s experience and even interfere with their ability to use a site or app.

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.
The Tried and True Laws of UX (with Infographic)
Just as there are cause and effect relationships, there are the laws of UX: predictable outcomes and human behaviors in UX a designer can use to design superior products. This infographic explains it all.

Miklos Philips
Miklos is a UX designer, product design strategist, author, and speaker with more than 18 years of experience in the design field.
UI vs. UX: Explore the Core Differences (Infographic)
UI and UX designers must work in tandem in order to create a finished product that delights users both visually and functionally.

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.
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The Power of Figma as a Design Tool
How does Figma improve the design process and outperform Sketch and other design tools when it comes to designer collaboration? Learn the big differences that every designer should know.

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.
Jobs to Be Done: Turn Customer Needs Into Product Solutions
In product design, the jobs-to-be-done framework is a well-known approach that is designed to deconstruct the “job” a customer is trying to get done.

Daniel Lee
Daniel is a diligent designer with a solid academic background in media art, design, and human-computer interaction.
Leap Into VR/AR Design
Virtual reality is no longer in the realm of science fiction. Immersive technology desperately needs skilled designers to jump in, get involved, take risks, and create something new. Leap into VR/AR!

Ted Evans
Ted has a passion for creative problem-solving and has brought ideas to life for companies like Apple, Nintendo, Disney, and Virgin Media TV.
Creating a UI Style Guide for Better UX
A consistent UI leads to a better UX. But with so many moving parts in modern user interfaces, how can UI designers be sure they’re staying true to a digital product’s look and feel?

Micah Bowers
Micah helps businesses craft meaningful engagement through branding, illustration, and design.
How to Create a Sketch Style Guide, Library, and UI Kit
Sketch is a valuable, time-saving resource for any designer’s toolbox. Though not every designer chooses to do so, creating style guides in Sketch can make it even more of a time-saver.

Yvette Solorzano
Yvette has experience in print, web, branding, and UX design. She has a minimal, clean aesthetic while pushing creative boundaries.
The Present and Future of AI in Design (With Infographic)
AI has become an over-hyped buzzword and the design world is no exception. Instead of resisting it, designers will soon be co-creating with AI. It will make them smarter. (Includes 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.
Icon Usability and Design Best Practices
The ultimate aim of icon design is to enhance the user experience. But what does that look like and how can UI designers ensure that the icons they make will be easily understood?

Micah Bowers
Micah helps businesses craft meaningful engagement through branding, illustration, and design.
Use Your Inspiration: A Guide to Mood Boards
Finding inspiration for design projects is one thing. Organizing it into a cohesive base for creating a design that wows clients and users is an entirely different beast. The solution? Mood boards.

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.
Data Visualization: Best Practices and Foundations
Data visualization is a coherent way to visually communicate quantitative content. Depending on its attributes, data may be represented in different ways, such as line graphs and scatter plots.

Mayra Magalhaes Gomes
Mayra is an illustrator, graphic designer, and web designer, providing solutions for Canon, Salesforce, and Johnson & Johnson. With more than 10 years of experience, she creates solutions to fit any company’s needs—from simple and complex.
Shopify Design Tips and UX Best Practices
Shopify merchants have achieved more than $40 billion in sales, but with poorly executed UX design being one of the biggest contributors to abandoned checkouts, it’s clear that superior UX can boost this statistic even further.

Stan Prysiazhniuk
Stan is a UX/UI consultant who specializes in eCommerce. His ultimate goal is to provide a concrete ROI for his clients.
Sharpen Your Skills: The Value of Multidisciplinary Design
Want to become a phenomenal designer? Take a multidisciplinary design approach and study the methods of other design disciplines.

Peter Varadi
Peter has four years of professional experience in digital interface design, typography, and graphic design with a user-centered approach.
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