User Experience Design

This article will teach you two popular design workshop techniques: empathy mapping and user journey mapping. Empathy mapping is a way to characterise your target users in order to make effective…

What do UX designers do on a daily basis? A lot of things! UX professionals need to communicate design ideas and research findings to a range of audiences. They use deliverables (tangible records of work that has occurred) for that purpose. I’ve created a list that contains the most common deliverables produced by UX designers as they craft great experiences for users. For better readability, I’ve combined the deliverables according to UX activities.

In most apps, it’s common to see a search bar up at the top of the screen. On social media platforms, such as Facebook, Instagram, LinkedIn, and even Snapchat, the search bar is at the top of almost…

Nowadays it’s hard to impress or even surprise with an interface animation. It shows interactions between screens, explains how to use the application or simply directs a user’s attention. While…

UX never felt like a career option for me. It just wasn’t on my radar, because it’s for designers right? People who are good with visuals and typography and all that wizardry? And design doesn’t have…

From design tools, to our design process, to the user behaviors that will change the way we design — a list of what to expect for User Experience (UX) Design in the next year.

Wonder which tools everyone else is using? In this survey, 2,800 designers give their opinion on the most popular design tools of 2018.

According to interaction designer John Zimmerman, design education needs to adapt to the AI age.

Success has different definitions for everyone. Becoming a great giver upper is essential to succeeding at the things that are important to you. Give up the stuff that is holding you back from…

Many of the reasons for using these somewhat dated deliverables don’t hold up on closer inspection

Each week, I curate the best UX articles, design tools, and resources on my newsletter, UX Design Weekly. I went back and looked at the stats from the past year to find the best of the best. Here are…

Recently, I have been asked over and over again by budding young designers which skills I look for in UX candidates but that I have a hard time finding when interviewing. This is an important topic…

Designers can’t simply make digital products easier to use. They have to think about what’s in the best interests of the user, writes Adobe’s Khoi Vinh.

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In order to scale, you have to do things that don't scale. Learn how Airbnb's Brian Chesky makes each experience an 11-star success.

If you’ve ever been tasked with designing a new feature for a site/app/etc, you’ve likely had a stakeholder say to you something like… …which saved you a ton of time and effort, because you were able…