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Habits: Five ways to help users change them
Let’s take a look at a subject that might appear tricky for designers to influence. However much control we have over ou
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How to Reduce Cognitive Friction in Mobile
There’s nothing more annoying than when things don’t function the way we expect them to. When users interact with a UI,
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What is Design Thinking and Why Is It So Popular?
Design Thinking is not an exclusive property of designers—all great innovators in literature, art, music, science, engin
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The 5 Stages in the Design Thinking Process
Design thinking is a methodology that provides a solution-based approach to solving problems. It’s extremely useful when
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Stage 5 in the Design Thinking Process: Test
We employ a wide range of testing methods during the design thinking process, many of which are also used in human-compu
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Design Thinking: Get Started with Prototyping
Prototyping is an integral part of Design Thinking and User Experience design in general because it allows us to test ou
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What Kind of Prototype Should You Create?
So, you want to create prototypes to help in your design process or Design Thinking project. However, what kind of proto
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User Research: What It Is and Why You Should Do It
User research is an essential part of UX design. Unless we understand who we are designing for and why, how can we even
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Early-Design Testing
Early-Design Testing is a great way to minimize extra work later in the process.Let’s get started on this exciting topic
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How to Understand User Needs in Virtual Reality
The principles you use in a user experience (UX) design process carry over into the sphere of virtual reality (VR) and a
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How to Elevate Your Mobile UX Strategy
Mobile makes up over 54% of global website traffic—a far different world from how users used to get online. Exceptional
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