UI UX Design

An old Chinese proverb says sharping your axe will not delay your work of cutting wood. That is, enough preparation may quicken your speed of doing work. I am personally totally with it. In the field of UI UX design, the saying still works perfectly. Facing great challenges, fierce competition and picky users nowadays, UI UX designers need to sharpen your skills to achieve continuous improvement, thus ensuring a great and stable market of user experience. The following six UI UX design tutorials may help you understand UI UX better and can even incorporate new inspiration into your design, which i sincerely hope. However, if they are not helping, i thank you for your time and wish you take it as a plus. 1. Videos of using a prototyping tool will certainly surprises you -  Mockplus Videos about using a prototyping tool, Mockplus, known as faster, easier and smarter. It may not as powerful as the giant Axure. But it does hold incomparable advantages. Especially for those new...

Mobile UI design provides a more accessible way for users to reach various applications. Designers need to master efficient design tools to improve efficiency and quality. Fortunately, there are plenty of user interface design tools on the internet. Here I brought up the best  mobile UI design tools   which are powerful and valid. 1.  Marvel app Marvel app is available for both Android and ISO platforms, and also free. It allows the overall design process completed only on mobile devices. It can easily upload the prepared sketches or screen mockups, and add inbuilt transitions & gestures to make the pen & paper ideas to live. 2.  Mockplus Mockplus focuses on developing rapid prototyping tools for UX/UI designer, developer, project manager and other IT professional. It is a fast-growing start-up on a mission to improve the user experience of prototyping. It can  easily  & quickly preview prototypes on mobile devices  by sc...

Wikipedia defines a homepage as the initial or main web page of a website or a browser. I guess the word “initial” or “main” says enough significance already. The situation can be really ironic sometimes: websites designers wonder  why visitors leave your homepage so ruthlessly , while users feel disappointed even at the first glance on your homepage. The bridge between designers and users seems destroyed. So my intention in this article is to rebuild the bridge by providing useful materials - five practical websites homepage design tips. 1. Keep it simple but not plain Is the word “simple” and “plain” contradicted to each other? I suppose this is the question you may ask. The answer is definitely no. By “simple” I mean just get rid of all those unnecessary clutter or dazzling pictures, videos, photography and colors. It’s kind like get your homepage lose weight. You might remove your eyes from a fat person with bulky clothes and all mussy make up. If you agree with that...

Websites is the main interface people encounter when using the Internet. On most occasions, the person who clicks the mouse decides the success or failure of a website. Overwhelming in various websites nowadays, obviously, win user’s affection and loyalty became a necessity which worth deliberating of any website designer.  Website design  is complicated for it involves a big range of things from small tiny questions like where the search box should be placed to a big picture of the main principles and approaches. In this article, my intention is to explain five crucial principles of websites usability and design. 1. Availability is the Fundamental The point is many websites are still inaccessible nowadays. You just cannot talk about like anything no matter the good side or the bad side when you even cannot reach it. Unavailability makes your good usability and design worthless and vain. Here I list some factors related to availability: a. Hardware or Software f...

In the vast world of the design industry, some do experience design, some do interaction design, and some even do both, thus generating a final result that defining the distinctions of those diverse technical concepts and industry terms became more confusing and difficult. However, a thorough understanding of   the difference between user experience & interaction design does play a big part of creating awesome products, or it could make you more  make you more qualified and professional  at least. Therefore, in this article, I’d like to describe the difference between user experience and interaction design. User Experience User experience involves the whole spectrum of feelings and emotions of a user during his or her use of a product, which needs take into consideration a much broader scope than the traditional  usability  to obtain. Normally, user experience can be realized by several elements: 1. Usability which is necessary but not the only t...

While I was starting this article, I contemplated the board, trying to find a more appropriate entry to begin--should I make a list of UI UX designer requirements. Such as, “which books about design you should read?” or “which design blogs you must follow”. Or I can simply focus on the details instead of form a border perspective to talking about. Since there are already plenty excellent essays discussing about UI UX Designer Requirements from a big picture, I would like to suggest some practical tips and principles which may make a UI UX designer more qualified. Obviously, mastering an efficient prototyping tool is a must I am not going to tell you which prototyping tools you should choose, whether  Mockplus  or  Axure . But you need to find the most suitable one for you. Time and practice r will take until you find the faster, simpler and smarter one. Meanwhile, your good design competence and rich specialized knowledge are required and advanced during ...

Prototype design is an essential part of software developing, no matter you are a UI or UX designer, many people have the work of making a prototype. But, what's the  difference between UI and UX designers ? Here, let me tell you the three differences that I have noticed. 1. The core they care The most important difference between UI and UX designers is that they have a or the different understanding of prototyping. Many UI designers believe the prototypes should be hi-fi model, sometimes even mix the spurious with the genuine. However, for the UX designers,  fidelity is only one point for concerning , they care more about logic. Simply speaking: when you're going to meet your customers, please take the design made by UI designers. When you're going to meet the programmers, you should have a second thought and take the prototype made by UX designers. The reason is really simple too. UI designers pay more attention to the interface, front end. But UX desig...