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In a step clearly intended to maintain dominance in an increasingly competitive market, Adobe have announced that XD CC (eXperience Design) is being released to the community as a free application. XD is amongst the most well-rounded, reliable, and innovative UX design applications available; by making it free of charge to both Mac and Windows users, Adobe are hoping to make it the de facto choice. Intriguingly Adobe executives are now openly referring to XD as Adobe's flagship product—a moniker previously reserved for its 25 year-old, raster-editing, behemoth Photoshop. We believe Adobe XD...

Most UX and product design case studies contain too much information. A well-designed case study demonstrates your talent, skills, describes an overview of your process and makes a business case for your work. In this post, we go over how to put together a UX and product design case study without overwhelming people.Learn tips to design a visually engaging presentation that brings your content to life.

Your portfolio is often a company or client's first impression of you. Yet while we would dress up and prepare our talking points for an interview, we tend to neglect our portfolio or follow design trends that don't represent us well. In my work with Semplice, a portfolio system for designers, I've seen hundreds of design portfolios over the years. And I continue to see common trends that could be holding designers back from their dream jobs. Below are five simple portfolio mistakes that can easily be fixed and make big difference in the work you do in the future. 1. All Photos, No Case Stu...

Many designers assume that center or right aligning their website logo will make their brand more memorable. Research has shown this assumption is not true at all.

Is your website making users think too hard? Could it be increasing their cognitive load and causing them to abandon your site?

What you think you’ll like isn’t always what helps you make the best decisions, Salesforce Analytics finds in a new research.

A little library that can be used for bursting particles effects. The idea is to disintegrate an element into particles and make it disappear (or vice versa).

Where are you placing the error messages on your form? If they're not placed where users expect to see them, you could jeopardize their capability to complete your form.

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Kate Rutter is an adjunct professor at California College of the Arts...

Sidebars can have their purposes, but in most cases there is probably a better way to give your users the same functionality and create better conversions.

Ensuring visual consistency across an application can be tricky: a few tips about how we do it at Drivy.

Have you noticed that lately some people are trying to coin the terms "Dark UX" or "Dark Design Patterns"? Not only that, but also trying…

The web was never supposed to be a few walled gardens of concentrated content owned by a few major publishers; it was supposed to be a cacophony of different sites and voices.

This project could have been a complete failure…

In a recent talk at the School of Visual Arts, Pentagram partner Natasha Jen argues against the cult of design thinking.

This morning, I saw a post on LinkedIn that shared a report put out by Bynder and OnBrand that gives insight into the State of Branding in…

After years of flat, material and completely minimal styles, the gradient has made a comeback. Everywhere you look, designers are using color fades to add visual interest, create user engagement and just design something that's worth looking at. If you aren't a fan of gradients, maybe it's time to rethink your stance on the issue. To help convince you, we've got 10 reasons to love and use gradients in your website design projects this year. 1. Backgrounds Create Interest A gradient creates visual interest and helps move users through a design. The eye will land on one area of color and the ...

I believe colour management is an essential feature for professional design tools — being able to rely on what you’re seeing when choosing colours, deciding on contrast, and assessing legibility is critical. In the last two articles, we covered the basics of colour management. In this article, we’ll detail the settings required for screen design in many popular design tools.

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What would a more honest and transparent Facebook look like? Here’s how NewDealDesign redesigned the social media giant.

Extending design principles beyond the dimensional space into the temporal

The Joint Photographic Experts Group (JPEG), an international committee headed by an EPFL professor, has just unveiled JPEG XS. With this new format, the image-compression process uses less energy, and higher-quality images can be sent with low latency over broadband networks like 5G. JPEG XS will have applications in areas such as virtual reality, augmented reality, space imagery, self-driving cars and professional movie editing.

Planning is essential for most businesses and organizations. Unfortunately, when it comes to websites there is often a failure to plan properly or at all. This guide aims to change that.

CSS Gradient is a happy little website and free tool that lets you create a gradient background for websites. Besides being a css gradient generator, the site is also chock-full of colorful content about gradients from technical articles to real life examples like Stripe and Instagram.

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