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Assess and Diagnose the Team Structure — One of the key factors when tackling a project, either as a part of a full time assignment or as a contractor, is understanding the team you’ll be integrated in. This becomes really crucial during the interview process when the designer really needs to understand the dimension of the team, but also of the projects that he’ll be tackling.

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Paper prototypes are the macaroni artwork of software development. Let me explain:

Has a small child ever showed you artwork made from dried macaroni, glue, and construction paper? No matter what kind of mess you’re looking at, you always give the little tyke credit for trying, right?

“You’re so creative! Great effort!”

I’ve got bad news: If you’re using paper prototypes to test a new feature or product, you’re probably asking for the same kind of treatment. Starting on paper is great for your design process, but it’s a waste of time for research. Here’s why.

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You Have No Idea How Today's Mobile Interface Design Is Like in China

You Have No Idea How Today’s Mobile Interface Design Is Like in China

Many developed countries have been the juggernauts in mobile interface design for decades. Not long ago, investors in Silicon Valley looked down upon China’s internet companies as marginal firms that produced fluffs by copying. Not any more. Today BAT (Baidu, Alibaba, Tencent) becomes three threatening monsters. The same story is happening again in the design field.

Two years ago in China,…

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Professional UX Design Approaches for Building The Best Website

Professional UX Design Approaches for Building The Best Website

Building a website through UX design approaches is very much like painting or sculptural art, they all take patience, foresight, aesthetics ability, creativity and perception of details. Generally, the website you design represents your company, it needs to be stunning and breathtaking. If you look deeper into the aspects of website building, you can find some core UX features that outstanding…

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8 Apps That Nail the Best User Experience Projects of the Spring

8 Apps That Nail the Best User Experience Projects of the Spring

Making great UX Applications is like doing jigsaw puzzles, every designer may spend his whole life chasing the decisive pieces of it. And after combing through hundreds of distinctive Apps in the first quarter, we finally screen out 8 Apps that can be called the best user experience projects. Some stand out for their practicability and adaptability, some for adding a little more fun to the world.…

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Professional UX Design Approaches for Building The Best Website

Building a website through UX design approaches is very much like painting or sculptural art, they all take patience, foresight, aesthetics ability, creativity and perception of details. Generally, the website you design represents your company, it needs to be stunning and breathtaking. If you look deeper into the aspects of website building, you can find some core UX features that outstanding websites share. By analyzing the top design trends, we may accurately trace out four major professional UX design methods for website building.

1. Streamlined Navigation

By saying “Streamlined Navigation”, I do not only refer to the navigation bar but all others navigations on a larger scale. Not to mention the great ones, a standard website also needs to be of high usability. Besides that, the speed and accuracy of loading are of decisive significance as well.

In professional UX principles, the typography should be carefully organized to ensure the best user experience. Links should be highly relevant. Text content should be unique and brief enough. Images should be of high-resolution and well formatted. Professionals take the advantages of these UX design approaches to make customers get used to feeling of user-friendlyinformation being slowly presented in front of them. Customers will then actively seek for more information about your company in other detailed pages.

2. Distinctive Content

Content matters. A successful page should be filled in with great content, in other words, it should be elaborately constructed to attract target customers. Concise content performs far better than a long speech. One of the most important functions of content is to make your website clear to customers and present what they need with links for more information. A highly recommended UX design approach is to place a large-font slogan right below the headline based on web user interface design principles.

Add keywords to your content to maximize the impact of your website but do not overuse them. Be friendly to your customers rather than putting all your heart to tantalize the search engine crawler.

3. Unified Design Methodology

As Gandhi said,"You must be the change you wish to see in the world", you need to make the mistakes before you correct them. One of the common senses of UX design approaches is to build great website mockups in the early stage before you really start. A good website needs to be cohesive and well connected in every part of it. To do so, professionals often use mockup tools like Mockplus, Axure, Justinmind and so on to build a mockup in the early stage. Through the iteration process, lots of defaults will be fixed and a number of slips will be properly optimized. Doing this will promise you a unified UX design and will save you time and money.

4.Artistic appeal

As it is mentioned at the beginning, website building is also a kind of art form. As UX design methods, You should create visual appearance, for example, icon design, through artful using of colors, fonts, styles, images and layouts. According to professional UX design approaches, a beautifully designed website is a very important part of marketing, do not hesitate to invest in it even if you can not see the result in numbers. You aesthetic ability decide the degree of your customers, namely, the money you will make.

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How to Become a User Experience Designer?

UI/UX design, as the top spot in the top ten most influential IT skills, is very attractive for the layman and the novice designer both on job market prospects and salary. This is why so many people are eager to switch to be an interface designer or user experience designer. Somebody told me that you are also considering to change career. So you want to be a UX designer? Before you made the decision, I have some questions for you. How much knowledge do you know about user experience? Do you know how to become a user experience designer? Here is some experience summarized by predecessors in the user experience design industry for reference at first.

1. Do you know what a user experience designer does?

The terms of UX, UI, IA, and IxD are always complicated for layman or people who new to the design industry, so they cannot figure out what’s the difference between the terms. If you want to be a user experience designer, you have to know what is user experience, and what makes a good UX design.

User experience (UX) refers to a person's emotions and attitudes about using a particular product, system or service. It includes the practical, experiential, affective, meaningful and valuable aspects of human–computer interaction and product ownership. Additionally, it includes a person’s perceptions of system aspects such as utility, ease of use and efficiency.

2. Are you passionate about UX design?

Young people in the current era are flighty and impatient. So when you make a serious decision to become a user experience designer with no experience, it means that you have to learn a lot of knowledge in patience and immerse yourself in the design trends. So that to keep your enthusiasm of the design industry. The biggest secret to keep enthusiasm is keeping learning.

3. How much do you know about the principle of user experience? Have you read any design book?

It’s much better that you have some basic knowledge about the user experience design principle. But if you have no any basic knowledge, you may need to get an improvement on this. Because it’s very necessary to master the background information to be a good UX designer. Here is a full list of UI/UX design books.

The Design of Everyday Things - Donald A. Norman

Don’t Make Me Think - Steve Krug

The Non-Designer's Design Book - Robin Williams

The Elements of User Experience - Jesse James Garrett

4. Do you know which tool the UX designer use?

The empty theory is useless to make you earn for living. What the leaders and customers will like and more prefer to see is the real design, rather than the oral presentation about the design. The most practical method to present the demo to your leader and customer is showing the design draft to them directly. It’s the most intuitive way to tell your design ideas and the logic of the page and components. Learning the principles, and practicing the design tools, that’s the best way to save your time. What are the best mockup & wireframing design tools & Apps for UI/UX designers? Here.

Invision - Design better, faster, together.

Mockplus - Prototype faster, smarter, easier.

Axure - Design the right solution.

Justinmind - All-in-one prototyping tool for web and mobile apps.

Uxpin - The full-stack UX design platform.

5. Where to find the inspiration for design?

In addition to the principle and design tools, the other key element is the inspiration. The predecessors also summarized someUI/UX design inspiration websites covered pictures, icons, and fonts, as well as the famous community like Behance and Dribbble.

6. Do you have a design portfolio that packs a punch?

Beat the competition–Marc Anderson reveals how to make your portfolio stand out from the crowd.

7. Where should you apply for your first job/internship?

The first job/internship is a good chance to learn and improve yourself. So if you make up your mind to be a user experience designer, try to land your first job as a UX designer in a big company such as Google, Apple, Facebook, and LinkedIn. They have a well-operated department for design. You will get a big improvement on how to become a user experience. Moreover, you can also get the chance to be involved in the design process and solving problems. You know, there are many great designers in these great companies. All in all, you have to make yourself become valuable, that’s the primary purpose to get a job/internship in the big companies.

Conclusion

After reading these questions about user experience, I believe you have a better understanding on how to become a user experience designer. If your choice is "Yes, I do", you also should realize that there is nothing "right" or "the best" way to be a designer in a short while. So, what’s idea on your mind?

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How to Become a User Experience Designer?

How to Become a User Experience Designer?

UI/UX design, as the top spot in the top ten most influential IT skills, is very attractive for the layman and the novice designer both on job market prospectsand salary. This is why so many people are eager to switch to be an interface designer or user experience designer. Somebody told me that you are also considering to change career. So you want to be a UX designer? Before you made the…

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Professional UX Design Approaches for Building The Best Website

Professional UX Design Approaches for Building The Best Website

Building a website through UX design approaches is very much like painting or sculptural art, they all take patience, foresight, aesthetics ability, creativity and perception of details. Generally, the website you design represents your company, it needs to be stunning and breathtaking. If you look deeper into the aspects of website building, you can find some core UX features that outstanding…

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UI/UX Designer Skills Valued by Facebook

UI/UX Designer Skills Valued by Facebook

My friend Cynthia wasn’t a fan of social networking. It’s hard to find her in any online circle, except for Facebook, where she occasionally kills her time. However, yesterday she told me that she’d fallen in love with FB. On the 2 anniversary of her registration, she just logged in the community and found a video clip customized for her. In that video, her avatar was printed on a badge, picked…

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5 Excellent Websites with Best UI Design 2017

5 Excellent Websites with Best UI Design 2017

To build the “websites with best UI”, a large quantity of factors should be taken into consideration. Websites with great user interaction must make users feel at home and extend their reach at the first entrance of a website. The approach to making this happen differs from culture to culture, for example, you can satisfy a Japanese and an English man at the same time. So, “websites with the best…

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UX Is Not UI: What Is the Difference between UX and UI Design?

UX Is Not UI: What Is the Difference between UX and UI Design?

UX has been a buzzword that bounces around the design world, endorsed and adopted by designers anddevelopers. In many cases, highly respected developers who claim to be talking about ”UX” in a product demonstration are in fact showing a large number of UI features. I doubt much that the vague definition may account for this kind of misunderstanding. We’ve heard of UI (User interface) and UX…

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Guidelines: Crucial Dos and Don'ts for iOS App UI Design

Guidelines: Crucial Dos and Don’ts for iOS App UI Design

With Apple’ s completely revamped design language for iOS App UI design coming out 2 years ago, features like bolder titles and bigger use of cards are making designer’s focusing on animations and function easier and easier. Indeed, as Twain is often quoted as saying: history does not repeat itself, but it does often rhyme. After the widespread using of thin fonts in iOS 7, bolder texts have…

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What Is the Best Way to Mockup a Website on Earth?

What Is the Best Way to Mockup a Website on Earth?

Asking “What Is the Best Way to Mockup a Website?” is like asking “What is the most noteworthy web design trends?” There is no shortcut as a single “best way”, but some do work better than others to some extent depending on each individual UX/UI designer’s style and preference. The innumerable tutorials about “PSD to HTML” are like abracadabra to you and the paradox is that when you finally…

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Why Digital User Experience Always Has to Come First

Why Digital User Experience Always Has to Come First

Advances in digital user experience design are changing customers’ expectations and enabling them to be more addicted to rich, interactive and engaging digital experiences. As user perception becomes more and more critical, bad designs can no longer act as a stopgap. That is why digital services, especially mobile advertising, provide outstanding templates for evaluating business model.

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Top 11 UI/UX Design Inspiration Websites & Tools for Designers

Top 11 UI/UX Design Inspiration Websites & Tools for Designers

“Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration.”

Particularly for UI/UX designers, that one percent inspiration is the most important, even more significant than the ninety-nine percent perspiration. Inspiration is a fickle thing. So that most designers, when lacking ideas, always turn to design galleries & websites to find creativity. Hope this gallery will be favorable…

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Top 10 Stunning Free Wireframe Apps You Must Try in 2017

Top 10 Stunning Free Wireframe Apps You Must Try in 2017

To ensure that early-stage iterations are fundamentally easier and inexpensive, free wireframe appscome to streamline these issues and allow designers purely concentrate on functions and interactivity. These apps help you to quickly get users a mock interface which can be visually sensed before coded. For developing basic hierarchy and typography in the interface, here are 10 Stunning Free…