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UX Research Methods and the Path to User Empathy
How can designers move beyond personal insights to understand the problems users face? We introduce time-tested UX research methods that inspire user empathy and lead to better user experiences.

Micah Bowers
Micah helps businesses craft meaningful engagement through branding, illustration, and design.
Boost Your UX With Clear Visual Hierarchy
A vital part of creating an optimal user experience, visual hierarchy determines the order in which people take in and process information on a page, regardless of whether it’s digital or print.

Chris Berridge
Chris is a highly experienced brand and UX/UI designer who’s successfully led design projects for clients from Google to numerous startups.
Sound Advice: A Quick Guide to Designing UX Sounds
Sound can be easily overlooked in UX design, but it’s an essential element in building impactful user interactions, such as providing feedback for user’s actions and building brand recognition.

Leo Foureaux
Leo is a product designer who uses empathy and research to craft valuable, multi-sensory digital products that make businesses thrive.
First Impressions: A Guide to Onboarding UX
Nearly one in four users will abandon a mobile app after using it just once. Good onboarding makes a great first impression, gives users a guided introduction, and can significantly improve user retention.

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.
Words Matter: The True Value of UX Copy
Well-crafted words improve UX and provide people with decision-making clarity. We explore the true value of UX copy and provide sensible writing tips for greater user engagement.

Micah Bowers
Micah helps businesses craft meaningful engagement through branding, illustration, and design.
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Know Your User: UX Statistics and Insights (With Infographic)
Billions are lost by businesses due to poor UX. This article outlines key UX statistics and insights that stress the importance of “knowing your user” (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.
A/B Testing UX for Component-based Frameworks
UI components are about modularity and reusability. A/B testing can be employed very effectively during a lean product development process to test components that make up an application’s UI.

Stewart Pressney
Stewart has developed a user-centered design and prototyping workflow proven successful in healthcare, education, and eCommerce.
Chatbot UX: Design Tips and Considerations
Conversational user interfaces are a new frontier that requires thoughtful consideration. The design process should include defining the purpose of the chatbot, and other design considerations to create a successful user experience.

Merve Postalcıoğlu
Merve is a senior UX and product designer with extensive knowledge in user research and testing for a wide range of clients and industries.
B2B UX – Common Obstacles and Attainable Solutions
Bad B2B UX is everywhere—but the situation is not hopeless. By understanding the pitfalls, and having a strategic user-centered design plan, designers can pave the way to saving enterprise software.

Samuel J. Horodezky
With 15+ years of experience, Samuel possesses extensive experience both as an individual contributor and in more formal management roles.
Understanding Design Systems and Patterns
Learn about the evolution of design systems and how designers can adopt a holistic approach to systems thinking.

Darcie G. Fitzpatrick
Darcie is a design leader with a passion for user-centered methods, business strategy, and intuitive user experiences.
Ditch MVPs, Adopt Minimum Viable Prototypes (MVPrs)
Learn the value of minimum viable prototypes (MVPrs), a quick and affordable way to create, launch, test, and improve digital products based on real-world insights.

Alexandru Giuseppe Ispas
Alexandru is a product designer with more than nine years of experience focused on creating easy-to-use experiences for web and mobile.
Prominent E-commerce Trends and Their Influence on Design (with Infographic)
Many exciting trends in e-commerce are on the horizon, from AI and AR to chatbots and voice ordering. The future of e-commerce will be shaped by trailblazing tech and savvy UX design (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.
UX Portfolio Tips and Best Practices
This guide shows UX designers how to craft a brilliant portfolio by examining questions about process and sharing practical design tips.

Micah Bowers
Micah helps businesses craft meaningful engagement through branding, illustration, and design.
The Best UX Tools (with Infographic)
When having the right UX tools is the crucial difference between having an effective design workflow and one that’s slow and unproductive, it’s important to stay up to date with the latest tools (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.
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.
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.
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