Well-designed microinteractions enhance the user experience by providing reinforcement and feedback. Without microinteractions, user interfaces would be dull and lifeless. Like it or not, digital products play on human psychology. When you see the flashing “typing…” in chat or social media apps, you want to stick around to see what the person’s going to say.

There’s more to the website that meets the eye! Beside the layout, colors, fonts, there are also technical factors such as site speed, indexing, and metrics that UX designers need to consider when working on a website experience. We invited Tomasz Niezgoda, Head of Marketing at Surfer, a platform that merges content strategy, creation, and

The video game industry is a fun and exciting place for UX designers passionate about art, creativity, design innovation, and, of course, gaming. Game UX designers work on diverse projects, creating UIs and interactions to enhance the gaming experience. This article is for UX designers looking for an introduction to game UX and the various

Mobile app competition is fierce, with millions of digital products vying for people’s limited attention. Increasing app engagement is a high priority for many product development teams, constantly looking for innovative ways to retain and entertain. UX designers play an essential role in keeping app users engaged using various design and psychology techniques. Prototyping and

Design leaders champion the design team, user experience, and, most importantly, an organization’s users. They create the company’s design vision and clear a roadmap for designers to achieve its goals and milestones.  This article explores the design leader’s role, including advice from two highly experienced industry experts who have worked in leadership positions at UXPin,

Experience design is a fast-growing design discipline focused on creating meaningful experiences. Experience designers use an interdisciplinary approach combining design, psychology, and technology to develop user-centered digital products. This article explores experience design fundamentals and how practitioners use human-centered design techniques to create engaging product and service experiences. Prototype and test your experiences with final-product

Whether you work in an early-stage startup or a multinational enterprise, design constraints limit or influence design projects and the desired output.  The first step is acknowledging these limitations and that they constrain UX designers from delivering great design outcomes. Understanding and managing design constraints will minimize adverse effects or eliminate issues altogether. Eliminate prototyping

Visual communication is exceptionally complicated. It’s diverse, boundless, and relentless. A design language establishes principles and constraints that induce the clarity, consistency, and cohesion necessary for designers to communicate with end users. Developing this design language is a time-consuming undertaking requiring feedback and collaboration from multiple departments and stakeholders. The final result will allow an

A well-defined UX strategy is as important as your organization’s mission statement. A user experience strategy helps guide UX teams when conceptualizing and designing innovative digital products. This article is a summary of our free eBook, The Field Guide to UX Strategy, written by acclaimed designer and author Robert Hoekman Jr. Looking for ways to

Are you searching for the best UX tool? If so, then you might have noticed that the tools out there vary greatly in terms of the features they offer. Because of that, it can be hard to assess if the user experience software you’re considering genuinely has all you need. Or, even, if you’ll need

Scope creep is a common issue in UX design projects. By proactively preventing scope creep, UX designers can ensure that their projects are completed on time and within budget.  Establishing clear goals and objectives, creating a design brief, encouraging collaboration, planning for the unexpected, and creating a system of governance are all effective ways project

As digital product complexity increases, so does the need for interactive prototyping. To minimize UX debt and reduce usability issues, designers must test and iterate with the highest accuracy during the design process. Get the world’s most advanced end-to-end design tool. Create fully functioning interactive prototypes that look and feel like the final product. Sign

One of the simplest ways website owners can improve user experience is by implementing videos onto their site. Why spend hours revising instructional copy or guides when a video can condense it in a few minutes? Using videos wisely can be a great way to put users first and boost your site’s UX.  You’re about

User Experience (UX) design is all about ensuring that the relationship between the user and the digital product is positive. Thankfully, with the many modern tools out there, teams of designers can easily collaborate on a design in real-time as well as test its usability and make iterations to designs. However, not all UX design

Don Norman, the founder of the Nielsen Norman Group and former Apple VP, coined the term user experience or UX in the 90s. Almost two decades later, Tony Hillson from Service Design in New Zealand came up with customer experience or CX.  Many people incorrectly use CX and UX interchangeably, but these describe different levels