UI/UX Design Things

Have you meet some problems on user interface design for the mobile device? For example, small mobile screens? Bad user experience? In this article, I will cover some things you can do to learn practical user interface design ( UI design ). 1. UI design principle Don’t think the practical  UI design  principle does not apply to small mobile screens. Five elements of UI design you should take into consideration: 1). Goal-driven Design. This allows you to customize the app working process and meet requirements for target users. 2). Usability. It may look empty, but you have to guarantee your application is usable. Users don’t like to download a complex app from App Store. Usability makes your product useful and hopeful. 3). Affordance & Signifiers. The signifier is an implication of affordance.For example, underlined blue text reminds you it’s a hyperlink, and it can link to other pages when you click it. With correct signifier, users can easily ...

With the development of the Internet, the term of  User Experience  has become a keyword of the Internet product development. The definition of the user experience is notso absolutely, and it is also not so sacred and inviolable for ordinary people. In recent years, all peoples are talking about user experience, it seems that everyone can be a UI/UX designer, as the popularity of design in the world. But what is it? What is called as a good  User Experience ? What is the user experience? 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.  The concept of design, like th...

The first thing to understand about  UX  is that it is not simply an exercise in creating a prototype. Many people approach UX entirely focused on prototype creation, but creating a prototype is only a narrow subset of what the discipline of UX has to offer. In this article, I’ll be covering the three cornerstones of becoming and being a UX professional: learning UX, practicing UX design , and cultivating your own UX connection. Part I. Tips on Learning UX 1. A list of classic books and resources for beginners:  Read my list of UX resources for beginners 2. The latest books for designers:  Great books for designers to read in 2016 Free UX & UI Books That Worth Your Reading 3. Listen to useful podcasts:  my blog post about my favorite UX podcasts 4. A list of  UX Design Blogs And Resources You Should Follow , some collections such as  UX — UI Readings  on Medium, and  Inspiration and helpful links for User Experien...

The terms of ‘wireframe’ and ‘prototype’ are always get confused by designers, despite the experienced designer, possibly due to the misunderstanding or some other reasons. Actually, the concept between the two terms is quite obvious and different. Now, let’s distinguish the two terms clearly. What is a Wireframe ? Wireframe is a low fidelity layout of the design which has 3 simple but direct targets: 1. Presents the main information group 2. Draw the outline of structure and layout 3. Vision and description of the user interface It will be your product’s main structure after you created a wireframe correctly. Just like the blueprint of a building, it describes details clearly and specifically. Visual features of wireframe Wireframe exists very obvious visual limitations. In general, designers only need to use lines, boxes, and gray color (different grayscale indicates the different level) to complete. Simple vector wireframe The content of a ...

The continuous improvement of  design tools  has had a positive impact on usability and user experience. This has provided great convenience not only for users but also for designers. Therefore, a good web designer will often try to stay updated with and master the latest tools. Hundreds of  blogs and websites  update articles, share design skills and recommend new tools on the internet. That is an important source of information for designers. Now, let’s have a look at the latest and mot useful design tools and websites. 1.  UX checklist When you hand your project over to your clients, are you sure you’ve settled all the problems? UX Checklist is a professional checklist for user experience. You can use this tool to review the stages of your project and whether you have already finished all the wok or not. 2.  Font Awesome Font Awesome gives you scalable, vector icons that can instantly be customized—size, color, drop shadow, and anything th...