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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 helps businesses craft meaningful engagement through branding, illustration, and design.
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 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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UX designers often need to convince company executives on the ROI of a UX redesign initiative. Here are some real-life B2B redesign case studies a UX team identified in order to make a compelling case.
Miklos is a UX designer, product design strategist, author, and speaker with more than 18 years of experience in the design field.
Designing an e-commerce site is not just about building a website to sell products but designing a pleasant online shopping experience. This comprehensive guide walks us through the best practices.
Yej is an award-winning app designer with multi-platform experience spanning iOS, Android, wearables, responsive web, and more.
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 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 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 is a UX/UI consultant who specializes in eCommerce. His ultimate goal is to provide a concrete ROI for his clients.
UX designers often need to persuade executives on the ROI of a UX initiative. In this example scenario, the UX team presented the projected ROI of a UX redesign to make a convincing case.
Miklos is a UX designer, product design strategist, author, and speaker with more than 18 years of experience in the design field.
The internet is a primary source of information, entertainment, and communication. Yet, for people with disabilities, there are barriers that make it inaccessible, as many websites don’t consider their needs.
Laura is a senior UX/UI designer and a member of the prestigious Awwwards jury. She specializes in UX solutions for eCommerce.
Want to become a phenomenal designer? Take a multidisciplinary design approach and study the methods of other design disciplines.
Peter has four years of professional experience in digital interface design, typography, and graphic design with a user-centered approach.
When having the right UX tools is the crucial difference between having a highly effective design workflow and one that’s slow and unproductive, it’s important to stay up to date with the latest tools.
A six-time winner in international design contests, Olha comes to Toptal with more than five years of experience in web and UI/UX design.
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 comes from a design background and is the author of two web design books: Color for Web Design and The Smashing Idea Book.
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 has more than a decade of experience in UX/UI design and front-end development and is a Google Analytics certified professional.
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 is an experienced UX architect and UI designer for many global IT heavyweights, including Microsoft, Intel, Intuit, T-Mobile, Cisco.
Two Toptal designers engage in a lively debate about aesthetics, objectivity, and the definition of art and design.
Miklos is a UX designer, product design strategist, author, and speaker with more than 18 years of experience in the design field.
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 comes from a design background and is the author of two web design books: Color for Web Design and The Smashing Idea Book.
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 helps businesses craft meaningful engagement through branding, illustration, and design.
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