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Mobile App Design Best Practices and Mistakes
Following some basic mobile app design best practices and avoiding the most common mistakes will help designers create apps that live past the crucial 90-day mark when 71% are abandoned.
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.
Leveraging Mental Models in UX Design
Users form mental models around how products should work through use. In order to design for maximum usability, designers need to understand and leverage users’ mental models.
Scott Benson
Scott has more than a decade of experience in UX/UI design and front-end development and is a Google Analytics certified professional.
Meaningful Design and the Art of Delightful UX
Creating meaningful designs, capturing customer attention, and influencing their behavior is something that designers and marketers will agree is one of the most difficult things to achieve.
Kaushik Ghosh
Kaushik is an experienced UX architect and UI designer for many global IT heavyweights, including Microsoft, Intel, Intuit, T-Mobile, Cisco.
Typeface Styles for Web and Print Design
No matter what design discipline you are working in—whether it’s visual design, UX, or traditional print—typefaces are essential elements of virtually every bit of design produced.
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.
UI Design Best Practices and Common Mistakes
The most progressive and interesting designers steer clear of visually stale design solutions and ditch restrictive rules by learning UI design best practices and avoiding common design mistakes. 🔊
Micah Bowers
Micah helps businesses craft meaningful engagement through branding, illustration, and design.
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CMS Web Design: A Guide to Dynamic Content Applications
A lion’s share of websites and apps in the online media space are powered by content management systems (CMS). The optimal way to design for these applications is putting content first, style second.
Ian Spangler
Ian has served as a designer and creative technologist, with a refined skill set in designing dynamic, content-driven web applications.
Master Hot Design Trends with These Photoshop Tutorials
Visual design experiments often become popular design trends and suddenly they are seen everywhere. Here are a number of hot graphic design trends and some of the top tutorials on how to create them.
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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