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The Fundamental Guide to Mobile Usability
Mobile usability isn’t just about scaling a website or app to fit various devices. It’s about understanding how people use mobile devices and that the mobile experience is as unique as the user.

Christine Esoldo
Christine is a UX/UI designer who specializes in data management, wellness products, and scaling UX teams for large organizations. She is the Director of UX and Product Design at CrowdStrike and has partnered with companies such as Dell, Lowe’s, and The Hershey Company.
E-commerce UX for the Mobile Experience
The explosive growth of e-commerce has created a need for online stores to adapt to mobile experiences. This post outlines the many aspects that make a successful mobile e-commerce experience.

Stelian Subotin
Stelian is a UI designer with more than seven years of experience in designing and building projects of different scales from the ground up.
Better UX Through Microinteractions
Microinteractions are single interactive moments in a product that enhance the workflow and make a product more enjoyable. This article highlights key parts of microinteractions and patterns.

Ondřej Dostál
For the past five years, Ondřej has worked as a designer, specializing in helping companies with their UX and UI designs, mostly mobile.
Customer Journey Maps: What They Are and How to Build One
Customer journey maps are a visual storytelling tool used to help designers empathize with users and identify actionable opportunities for providing a better user experience.

Bree Chapin
Bree is a passionate designer and problem solver with 10+ years of experience in product and UX/UI design for web and native mobile applications. She creates compelling, human-focused experiences delivered through clean, minimalist UI.
How to Design an Effective Landing Page
Landing pages are powerful tools used to convert visitors into leads and buyers. This post outlines the psychological aspects and design considerations that make up a successful landing page.

Stelian Subotin
Stelian is a UI designer with over seven years of experience in designing and building projects of different scales from the ground up.
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How to Build an Effective Design Framework (Includes a Free Sketch UI Framework)
Design frameworks help designers work more efficiently by utilizing reusable UI components. We shed light on how to create and use one using Sketch symbols (includes a free Sketch UI framework).

Wojciech Dobry
Wojciech is a product designer and web designer with eight years of experience. He’s passionate about typography and sound design.
Great Questions Lead to Great Design: A Guide to the Design-thinking Process
Great designers help teams and stakeholders make better decisions by using questions to identify opportunities, reveal underlying needs, and understand user context—all of which lead to better designs.

Jorge Juan Perales
Jorge Juan has designed successful digital products for over a decade. He loves fast-moving teams and delivering great value to users.
Brutalist Web Design, Minimalist Web Design, and the Future of Web UX
Web design is changing. Minimalist web design has been the reigning approach for years, but brutalist design is gaining in popularity. Despite its inelegant clutter and raw functionality, brutalist design may be taking over the web.

Pascal Potvin
With 12 years in UI/UX and creative direction, Pascal has delivered immersive experiences, led design teams for Sony, Fox, Disney, and more.
Dashboard Design: Considerations and Best Practices
Dashboards are a unique and powerful way to present data-based intelligence using data visualization techniques. This post looks at the fundamental dashboard design principles that lie at the heart of every successful dashboard.

Stelian Subotin
Stelian is a UI designer with over seven years of experience in designing and building projects of different scales from the ground up.
New Realities: VR, AR, MR, and the Future of Design
By leveraging new and emerging technologies like AI, AR, VR, and MR, designers have fresh and exciting opportunities ahead in designing future products.

Himanshu Bharadwaj
Himanshu is a digital art-director who crafts innovative UX/UI for worldwide brands like Nikon, Samsung, IBM, and Sirius.
Evolving Emojis: Designing for the New Face of Messaging
Emojis are universal symbols of expression, transcending cultural and linguistic divides. As technology continues to advance, designers will be the ones to define the next evolution of human communication.

Julie Rega
Julie specializes in art direction, branding, and illustration, and she’s co-founder of an iOS app called COSIMO.
30 Days of Design: A Branding Case Study
We’ve all picked up design projects that required us to deliver outstanding results under severe time constraints. This branding case study breaks down the process of how to accomplish it effectively.

Ivona Petrovic
Ivona specializes in all facets of web, from UX/UI to branding and illustration. She values learning and transparent communication.
Augmented Reality vs. Virtual Reality vs. Mixed Reality: An Introductory Guide
Despite having many things in common, virtual, augmented, and mixed reality are not the same. Learn the essential differentiators and design considerations for these promising cousin technologies.

Tidjane Tall
Tidjane is a UX/UI design leader who connects user’s needs and goals to deliver strategic solutions for companies like Adobe and Google.
TV UI Design: Working with White Space
White space is an often overlooked and underutilized element in many TV UI designs. However, using white space intentionally improves comprehension and focus and enhances the user’s experience.

Pascal Potvin
With 12 years in UI/UX and creative direction, Pascal has delivered immersive experiences and led design teams for Sony, Fox, Disney, etc.
Future UI Design Without Buttons
Why do we still use buttons in our user interfaces? Technology has come so far and offers so many possibilities, there is no longer any reason to force our users to click the tiny rectangles we call “buttons.”

Wojciech Dobry
Wojciech is a product designer and web designer with eight years of experience. He’s passionate about typography and sound design.
Dark UIs. The Good and the Bad. Dos and Don’ts.
Dark-themed UIs can be dramatic, stylish, and elegant. But despite the many benefits, they come with a slew of challenges and potential pitfalls that every designer would be wise to keep in mind.

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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