The newest guide in our free downloadable library is now available.
Demystifying Delightful Interaction Design explores the facets of delightful design from a perspective most useful to UX/UI professionals. Here’s a little of what to expect inside.
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Good UX equals good conversions. In this piece, we’ll provide some UX tips for higher conversions and happier users.
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In this piece, we’ll explain how to get started in UX with the least learning curve possible.
We scoured the web and spoke with our own design team for the most straightforward advice. Check it out!
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You can read everything you need to know about color theory collected into one easy-reference guide.
Color Theory in Web UI Design is available to download now. Let’s take a peek inside.
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There’s no one way to design your mobile navigation… but some ways work better than others.
In this piece, we’ll examine 5 creative yet highly usable navigation patterns.
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As described in the free e-book Web Design for the Human Eye, landing pages are essentially your ‘shop window’ and you have one chance to impress the user. Do this, and it’s likely that they will go on to browse the rest of the site, perhaps even making a purchase and reading through your carefully crafted content along the way.
In this post, we’ll deconstruct a few visual examples and explain UX best practices for every landing page.
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Now available: our pocket guide Designing UX with Developers. This introductory guide focuses on involving developers in the early wireframing and prototyping stages.
Take a look inside.
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Skeuomorphism gives way to flat, and flat gives way to … something in between. One technique that’s taken hold in recent years is parallax scrolling — a visual effect that adds the illusion of depth to your site.
In this piece, we’ll explain a few things you must consider if you want this technique to work for you.
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Following the success of our first standalone book on white space, we are expanding our discussion of white space with another new ebook.
Take a look inside the Zen of White Space in UI Design: Space, Ratios, Minimalism.
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Enterprise UX design is a whole different animal.
If you’re designing in an enterprise, you need to navigate the organizational complexities inherent to large companies (not to mention any annoying legacy processes).
If you’re designing for the enterprise, your company is probably at least mid-sized and distributed across multiple offices (perhaps even continents). You’re not just facing organizational complexity, but also designing products whose users aren’t the buyers.
In either case, enterprise UX carries its own set of risks and opportunities.
With insights from some of the top UX practitioners today, we’ll explain the three most common problems with enterprise UX design – and how the experts solve them.
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Style Guides for Web UI Design: An Overview for Modern Designers gives a practical overview of styles guides for web design, pointing you in the right direction depending on your project needs.
Let’s take a look inside the pocket guide.
Style guides are essential to any design project, but they’re too frequently slapped together – or worse, outright ignored. The problem isn’t the practice of making a style guide, the problem is making the wrong kind of style guide and using the wrong process. There’s no one type of style guide that will work for every project; each has its own variations and components that can be modified and customized to suit different needs.
This free pocket guide explains them all in a concise yet pragmatic format.
Drawing on real-world examples from Adobe, Facebook, BBC, and more, this free pocket guide will teach you:
This pocket guide comes with real screenshots from actual company style guides, so you can see exactly what we’re discussing.
We’re proud to announce the latest expansion to our free downloadable library: Cards & Minimalism, a part of the Curated Collection of Web Design Techniques.
Analyzing examples from real-world sites like Google, Microsoft, Trello, and Squarespace, this book explains the best practices, history, and pros/cons of two of the most popular design techniques around today.
Hotter than ever now thanks to mobile devices, cards and minimalism are both those rare techniques that are as useful as they are aesthetic.
As an organization method, cards streamline responsive design and suit the usability of mobile devices. Minimalism is achieving new heights thanks to its quick loading times, influence over users’ visual flows, and how it complements the flat design movement. When you consider how these techniques simply make a site look on top of it all, you can see why they’ve become so popular.
This free book helps you determine whether or not the techniques of cards and minimalism will work for you, and if so, how to best implement them. Across 60+ pages, you’ll find:
We have a new edition of our popular Web UI Trends Present and Future Series – which explores the current landscape of UI design, and how designers can stay ahead of the curve in the future. The Vibrancy of Color deconstructs the modern take on color, showcasing its points with 22 hand-picked examples from some of the most gorgeous sites around today.
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Colors are just as important to web design as they are any other visual medium, and skilled artists don’t just choose their paints at random. Each color evokes a specific mood, allowing the designer to influence the emotional connection the user draws, from light and cheery, to reliable and professional. Combining colors, too, can create an eye-catching contrast that gets your user’s attention where you need it.
This 31-page free pocket guide not only outlines the fundamentals of color theory that every designer should know, but it also explores their use through a modern – and future – perspective.
In this book, you’ll learn:
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White space – or negative space as it’s also known – is a highly misunderstood and underappreciated component of proper UI design. That’s why we wrote our latest ebook, Zen of White Space in Web UI Design, to clarify its importance and explain its application, using 14 real examples from companies like Apple, Lever, Wanderlust, Sketchapp, and more.
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“Less is more” is the fundamental principle that gives white space its strength. By adding or subtracting empty space around certain elements you can draw/repel attention, highlight their importance, and even exude certain moods, such as elegance.
Over 58 pages, this free ebook explains why white space is a lot more than empty space.
After reading this book, you’ll know:
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Our free library is again expanding with another free e-book, White Space in Web UI Design. Using examples from Apple, Microsoft, Marvel, Wunderlist, Medium, and others, this book explains and shows how to use white space – or negative space – to make the most out of your design. Take a peek inside!
White space is not just an empty canvas that should be filled up the first chance you get. Just like any other design element, there are techniques, reasoning, dos and don’ts, and styles behind it. This book outlines them all, so you know how to apply white space in the best way for your web UI designs.
Mastery of white space requires a solid understanding of topics like visual design aesthetics, content readability, human sight patterns, the overall feel of your site, and minimal design philosophies. This free ebook addresses these topics and more, explaining the facts behind its proper usage, and showcasing real-life examples from the sites of popular companies.
After reading this book, you’ll learn:
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